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 11/01/2010
Aye, Chihuahua, photograph
Morgan Gonzalez, eighth grade, John Hopkins Middle School, St. Petersburg
Rain, Rain
When I stare out of my window
Watching the rain beat on the glass,
I feel so calm and so safe.
One raindrop,
I follow with my finger,
As it runs down the window pane
Like a sparkly tear.
Trickle. Trickle. Trickle.
How I love the rain.
Angelina Rosado, fourth grade, Northshore Elementary School, St. Petersburg
Another Brick Wall, photograph
Morgan Gonzalez, eighth grade, John Hopkins Middle School, St. Petersburg
The words that came from my hand
I stare at the page of scribbled blue ink
I wrote every word
Yes, it was me
I try to see deeper than the rhyming lines
And look for the true meaning that is really mine
I try and I try as hard as I can
To decipher the words that came from my hand
I chose every word with care
And yet I can't tell you why I put them there
As I search for the meaning in the bright blue ink
A thought comes to me and I think
If the meaning is not in the art
Then where else to look but the artist's heart
I do not know what that poem means
All I know is that it came from me
One day I will know
And the meaning may change over time
But all I know is that it's all mine
I try and I try as hard as I can
To decipher the words that came from my hand
I chose every word with care
And yet I can't tell you why I put them there
Savannah Rhea Cordova, ninth grade, Manchester High School, Midlothian, Virginia
Beach Happy, photograph
Morgan Gonzalez, eighth grade, John Hopkins Middle School, St. Petersburg