Student Writing

Every month, we choose a few of our talented students to showcase on the Edgewood Arts website. Take a look at some of the writing that has been done recently in our StoryBoard workshops:

 

Poem for my Father

 

The pop was a gunshot.

Just being next to the sizzling pan was extra hot.

No spatula, no spoon

Thoughts rushed through my head like a monsoon.

 

Your skeleton hands touched the bacon

Your voice was soft, like Clay Akon.

You said touch it, so I did.

The gunshot went off again.

I ran and I hid.

 

My mom ran down and said “what’s wrong

With you, you crazy crook?”

You said, “I’m trying to teach the girl

How to cook!”

No one watched the bacon.

The house smelled of burnt rubber.

All that good bacon went down in the gutter.

We did this again, day after day

Until you left and passed away.

Jonell Joshua

Southwest Middle School

My Brother

My brother is like a cobra ready to eat all of our oatmeal cream pies. He is always boss. Also Allen likes to wear only underwear in the morning. And I should know; he’s 22 years old. He’s like a messy monkey. I don’t know what to do. It’s a disaster. Sometimes it makes me say “Doh”!

Like this one time when we went to Lake Mayers. We went around there twice. I was exhausted. My brother and my sister laughed at me. These are the problems I go through. At home and in public. He is such a big pain in my opinion.

Another story is that when me, my brother, and sister were walking until it was 9:00. I remember I fell in the street. They laughed at me. I was starting to think I wouldn’t go home. My brother is such a really pain.  

Arkeen Moore

Hubert Middle School

Tashjadala Norette Anacaryica

Mikell

Hubert Middle School

The Crazy Name You Gave Me

 

Is my name the frogleg of names.

 

First Name: Tashjadala

It sounds like four different names put together.

Tasha, Jada, Dada, and the letter “a”

That’s just crazy. You could have at least called me Tasha or Ta’sheai,

but why Tashjadala?

 

Is my name the frogleg of names.

 

Second Name: Norette

Look, I know you were trying to be nice,

But what were you thinking?

Norette sounds like a way to stop smoking.

 

Is my name the frogleg of names.

 

Third Name: Anacaryica

Wow! I thought Norette and Tashjadala was Crazy

But Anacaryica? Where in the ham sandwich

Did you get that from? It’s a shame.

Grandma can’t even say it.

 

Again I say:

Is my name the frogleg of names.