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A BEAUTIFUL PERSON

My beautiful person is helpful and understanding. This person
will not mock me when I do not understand. He comforts me
when I am unhappy, soothes me when I am in a rage, and
rejoices with me when I am exuberant or excited.

He is the one in one hundred, who, when I break my minis­ TREES
cule little glass elephant is able to hand-make me another
one, better than ttie first. Trees blow from day to day.
They make you think of far away.
All through my ten years of life, he has comforted me and
helped me, from my six year old panics to my eight year old Tree's leaves go from red to green.
temper tantrums and to my present age morbid thoughts. It looks like it is very keen.

He is my idol, my hero, and I would not exchange him for Trees are cold but sometimes warm.
anyone else in the world. It makes you think you are on a sunny

He is my father. farm!
Rachel Roze Diane Cullen
Sixth Grade Sixth Grade

The Fair

AUTUMN

In my back yard there is an ocean,
the sand

With shells, beach glass,
and stones.

You can hear the waves clinking
them softly,

All night long like silver fairy phones.

In the fall all is quiet,
and the sea gull?'s cry is a

Lonely one.

Sometimes a single line of footprints
shows along the shore,

Made by a solitary walker
whose marks are washed away

Forevermore.
Elizabeth Baum
Sixth Grade

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