Earth Day Poetry Contest First Place Winners 2016

幼儿园

基利·马丁内斯

一块岩石

我找到了一块石头. 那块石头 not too big and
不要太小. 很完美. 那块石头
Shaped like a circle, and it was awesome!
I gave the rock to my sister and she
loved it like I hoped she would. My
sister dropped it and it cracked open.
We found out it was an emerald jewel.
The days passed as we laughed because
we didn’t know it was special even
虽然它是金子.

1级

齐克·克林金胡子著，

Pepsis Wasp: A Tarantula Hawk Wasp Story

I have orange, sparkly wings.
My body is a pretty black-blue.
I have beautiful, curly antennae,
And long, spiky legs, too!

I have strange lines on my wings,
The desert scrub is where I live.
I live near flowers on the ground.
A painful sting is what I give!

I paralyze a tarantula with my stinger,
Then I drag it to my home.
I lay my eggs on its body.
The tarantula cannot roam.

The larvae hatches from its egg,
Then eats the tarantula alive!
When it grows up, it eats nectar and pollen,
But now it eats a tarantula to thrive.

2级

By Aryana Clinkingbeard (tied overall winner)

The Queen of the Night: The Night Blooming Cereus

在沙滩上
Is a skinny, spiny stick.
这是一棵枯死的灌木吗?
Its root is fat and thick.

但在一个夏日
一个花蕾出现了.
Something magical comes
一年一次.

当太阳下山的时候
On a dark summer night,
一朵花开了
许多白色的花瓣.

It’s the shape of a trumpet.
It smells like sweet perfume.
你很幸运
If you see this desert bloom.

It blooms for one night,
然后它的工作就完成了.
永远关闭
伴随着清晨的阳光.

三年级

Alex Gutierrez (tied overall winner)

点

太阳升起来了
每个人的家里
It’s much too hot for things to roam

By 6:00 spiders still hide
By 7:00 the snakes start to slide

By 8:00 the sun is going down
By 9:00 the creatures go to town.

4级

Amara Strange (overall winner)

梦想在

睡在阴凉处，
吃仙人掌籽
啃着讨厌的杂草，
树下的洞穴，
伞的尾巴,
飞过鹌鹑，
土狼溜了过去，
looking for some lunch,
飞过一堆，
小小的仙人掌鹪鹩，
the wild wind whistles,
an animal with bristles
慢慢地滑过，
squirrel goes to sleep,
dreaming rodent dreams.

五年级

Freja E. 詹森(并列)

雨季

The clouds are wings of the sky
横扫沙漠，
Dripping wet with a midsummer storm.
Pausing over an unvisited place,
它们把自己擦干，
只有重力的帮助.
The saguaros drink up the rare water,
Storing some in their well-protected arms.
Earthworms evacuate their flooding tunnels,
Exposing themselves to desert birds.
Lizards run to puddles,
Drinking in the collecting rain.
The creosote release their pleasant fumes.
土地被滋养，
云干了，
The sky’s wings glide to another place.

五年级

Xander Clinkingbeard (tied)

Saving the Desert’s Dark Skies

The sun goes down, giving way
To the blackness of a midnight sky.
A single star, and then another —
As the world turns, they multiply.

由星星组成的传奇
Andromeda, Leo, Pegasus,
“The sight of the stars makes me dream.”*
Man studies the celestial abyss.

Kitt Peak, Steward Observatory,
Use the dry desert nights
That show off the opaque sky
Displaying the luminous lights.

Tucson, Phoenix, Casa Grande,
Eating the pitch black dark,
Brilliant, radiant monsters,
Civilization leaving its mark.

Nocturnal creatures are thrown off,
Circadian rhythms disrupted.
Drastic environmental change.
Nature being corrupted.

Can we save our desert darkness?
Will we save our darkened skies?
Red and yellow lights don’t glare.
Hooded lights are very wise.

The desert dwellers have to find
An intelligent solution.
The world will follow what we do
And bring an end to light pollution.

*Quote by Vincent Van Gogh.

6年级

罗马Nasif

等待的蛇

The rattlesnake is on the ground waiting, waiting
For prey to jump into his mouth
He sits in the burning sun waiting, waiting
Until a rabbit comes on her usual route

The snake sits still like a stick waiting, waiting
The rabbit jumps into his jaws
Snow-white teeth curl around the helpless rabbit waiting, waiting
Until the rabbit lay motionless with no movement in her paws

Now the snake slithers back and forth waiting, waiting
For another victim to face its terrible fate
The snake blends in with a giant stone waiting, waiting
For he isn’t evil but has to survive surrounded by our hate