XPI Student Showcase
Welcome to Xpress Plugged In, our new online gallery of student expressions. Please follow the submission instructions CAREFULLY. New work will be posted every Monday.
-- Nancy Green, editor of XPI
Selections for the Week of 8/02/2010
Spotlight on Admiral Farragut Academy,
St. Petersburg
Waiting, digital photograph
Allyson Puckett, ninth grade
Simple, digital photograph
Allyson Puckett, ninth grade
Owl Tree
Twisting branches
Tall with age
Roots held strong in the ground
With leaves that shine like emeralds
This is where the owls live
Miriam Cone, seventh grade
Roaring Thunder and Dancing Lightning
Crash! Boom!
Lightning strikes and thunder roars
with people cowering in their rooms
The clouds open up and it starts to pour
Like a ballerina the lightning dances
It causes the animals to scatter
In a cave a doe prances
Where she is trying to survive,
because nothing else matters
The storm smiles an evil grin
Destroying everything in its way
Nothing can stop it until it wins
But it is forced away, by a wind of May
Out to sea
On the shore the animals dance in glee.
Miriam Cone, seventh grade
The Water Bearer
Ancient waters swallow the Earth
Consuming anything in its path
Death
But even when in the palm of Death
Life can be birthed
The end of man found its way to be the beginning
A great flood--A great flood no more
Reborn from the dame Earth--
We rise. Fresh. New.
The winds teach us our words
The weather gives us emotion
The sun teaches life, but we teach love
Our legacy begins.
Mariah Watts, eighth grade
Blooming, digital photograph
Allyson Puckett, ninth grade
Sharp, digital photograph
Allyson Puckett, ninth grade