2011 Honorable Mention

Eating In The Garden
by
Gentry Johnson
2nd grade poet - Salcha Elementary School

I like eating in the garden,
Such as snap peas, strawberries,
Carrots, and salad.
But most of all,
I like rhubarb.
And I like seeing the moose eating the same
things,
Sometimes.

2011 Honorable Mention

My Favorite Thing To Do In The Garden
by
Makenzie Merrill
3rd grade poet - Salcha Elementary School

My favorite thing to do in
the garden is everything. But
my most favorite things are sugar
snap peas because they are so sweet
and crunchy and juicy. I also like
cauliflower too. It looks like
white trees and I love
playing with it.
But in the
fall
harvest
lots
of
vegetables
for the
winter.
You
have
to work
really hard. But you get to have fun and you get to be
really dirty. And the flowers shine through the sky.

2011 Honorable Mention

My Imagination Garden
by
Dimitri Padgett
3rd grade poet - Barnette Magnet School

In my imagination garden plants never die.
The rabbits are chocolate, but you need to trap them
if you want to eat one. On the fence birds sing
beautiful songs about how exquisite my plants and
flowers are. It never snows in my garden. During
the night strawberries and morning glories glow.
During the day my sunflowers shine. The grapes
they are the sweetest. The bees make the sweetest
honey. The jellybeans I grow explode in your mouth
with sweetness. The squirrels in my garden have to
be careful and have strong teeth because the nuts are
hard as cement. To enter my garden you need to go
through the maze. Don't make the squirrels angry!
Watch out, there is a flower that makes you sleep if
you pick it. The carrots throw spears made from
normal carrots. The tomatoes burst. A type of plant I
grow turns into a rocket when you pick it. I have
tamed all the moose so that I can ride them whenever
I want. There is a river in my garden as deep as the
Lochness. In fact, there is a sea monster living in it.
If you try to get into my garden, he uses his fins like
a fan to keep you out. There are dragons there too.
The dragons breathe ice and can turn you into ice
scuptures. The coffee beans I grow know what to
do. They jump into the coffee blender and then
coffee is ready.

2011 Honorable Mention

The Bamboo Maze
by
Damon Johns
3rd grade poet - Barnette Magnet School

I crawl through a maze in my garden.
My maze has walls and a roof of bamboo.
Rainbow flowers wrap the bamboo, so in the snow it
looks like an igloo.
A secret flower lets you fly -
another flower, POOF you vanish!
In an instant you are in the center of my maze, where you
can jump in the pool and cool yourself from the summer sun.

2011 Honorable Mention

My Garden and Me
by
Deirdre Stanton
3rd grade poet - Barnette Magnet School

In the summer it's just my garden and me.
I plant a seed in my garden's best soil.
I water the seed and wait overnight.
When I awake the next morning there is a little green
shoot.
I am so, so happy that I jump for joy!
I can already imagine how lovely my poppy will be-
Big and red, what a beautiful poppy it will be!

2011 Honorable Mention

TERSE VERSE
by
Jerry Wormley
4th grade poet - Barnette Magnet School

Fertilizer . . . . . . . . . flower power
Blueberries . . . . . . . . . . very berry
Watermelon . . . . . . . . . . . fine vine
Compost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .toil soil

2011 Honorable Mention

Gardens
by
Carson Kegley
4th grade poet - Barnette Magnet School

Gardens are special
There are gardens to sit in
Gardens to read in
Gardens to play in
Gardens to pray in
Gardens to rejoice in
Gardens to mourn in

2011 Honorable Mention

Butterflies
by
Aidan McGinty
4th grade poet - Barnette Magnet School

Butterflies gently
Touch the sky landing on trees
Settling on me.

2011 Honorable Mention

Garden Healing Touch
by
Steven Bateman
4th grade poet - Barnette Magnet School

I'm sick as Dick next door
I'm going to fall on the floor
I want to go to the Garden
And get out of this den
And into the open
And fall into the hands of the Gardens Healing
Touch