XPI Student Showcase
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-- Nancy Green, editor of XPI
Selections for the Week of 2/01/2010
Are We There Yet? pencil
Anastasia Magloire, 11th grade, Land O'Lakes High School
PALM HARBOR MIDDLE SCHOOL
Chocolate and Vanilla
I always thought of us
As chocolate and vanilla.
You were bigger, better
More talented, more loved.
I was smaller, insecure,
An introvert, a coward.
You walked around
Like you owned the place
And I wallowed
In your shadow.
Like chocolate and vanilla.
I wanted to be you
I wanted to live your life
For just one day
Until you told me
How jealous you were
Of me
Of little old me,
Wildly self-conscious
And always feeling
Out of place.
I was vanilla, you were chocolate.
You told me you loved me
You loved the way I was
You assured me that I was special
I was different
I deserved to be secure
And in that instant
I realized
That while many prefer chocolate
Others prefer vanilla.
I was special
I could be myself
And in that instant
I took a giant leap out of your shadow
I hopped to your side, and we both laughed
And I walked in the sunlight
For the first time in ages.
Jade KlosGardner, eighth grade
The Things I Love, permanent marker
Elizabeth Osmon, 10th grade, Lakeside Christian School, Clearwater
ACADEMY OF THE HOLY NAMES,
TAMPA
The Moon
Soft sighs come from the sky,
Treading lightly through the trees.
She hides behind gossamer clouds of dew,
Silent, while hearts fly,
Hoping to please,
Trying to pursue.
She laughs at the attention,
And steps into the night,
Glowing, beautiful and bright.
She sings to the waves and the water,
To the land and the beasts.
She sings as Earth's daughter,
She sings as she runs from the east.
Marisa Petrick, 11th grade
Bikini, pencil
Jessica Giacobbi, sixth grade, Explorer K-8, Spring Hill