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Clocks<br />
I am looked at everyday. I am very precise.<br />
Sometimes it seems like I go fast and sometimes<br />
slow.<br />
I can be colorful but most of the time I’m black and<br />
white.<br />
I am found in every building in America.<br />
I’m always changing and moving.<br />
People plan their schedules around me.<br />
Sometimes I make people late but sometimes I<br />
make people early.<br />
I have two hands, one longer than the other.<br />
If I was never invented your life would be a mess.<br />
Morganne Dodds<br />
Teacher: <strong>Ms</strong>.<strong>LeCren</strong><br />
<strong>Grade</strong>: 12<br />
14<br />
Coastal Poem<br />
I am the ocean<br />
and sometimes I wonder if you have met me,<br />
really. I hear the echoing of the whales,<br />
then I see the white foam, and I want<br />
to play;<br />
I am the water<br />
even though I pretend to be asleep;<br />
here, I feel omniscient, and I touch<br />
the shore ever so lightly with care, but I worry that I will<br />
die of pollution, so I<br />
cry. For the blood that seeps into me from murdered<br />
sea creatures, as tainted<br />
I am the waves<br />
and I understand life’s natural rhythm, the pattern,<br />
to you, I say om shhh omm shhh, while I<br />
dream fantasies and nightmares;<br />
all day all night I try to show you yourself, the world,<br />
the future,<br />
and I hope you understand;<br />
I am your California ocean.<br />
Ardis Zhong<br />
Teacher: Mrs. Weien<br />
<strong>Grade</strong>:10