Hands on Stanzas

Anthology of Student Verse
 
Welcome to the Hands on Stanzas Anthology of Student Verse. Thanks to the generous support of the Boeing Corporation this year's Hands on Stanzas Anthology has been published electronically allowing us to include a poem from each and every one of our students. That's close to 2000 poems this year!

To navigate the anthology either click the students’ grade level or the name of their school below.

Grade: 3  |   4  |   5  |   6  |   7  |   8  |   9  |   10  |   11  |   12

School:
Alcott Elementary
Belding Elementary
Bell Elementary
Burbank Elementary
George Washington Elementary
Richard Henry Lee Elementary
McPherson Elementary
Moos Elementary
Pilgrim Lutheran School
Price Elementary
Shields Elementary
Skinner Classical School
Solomon Elementary
Taft Academic Center
Tarkington School of Excellence
Walter Payton College Prep High School

 
Marissa Spalding, Poet-in-Residence
Principal: Gloria Davis
Teachers: Mrs. Henderson
School: Price Elementary


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a poem by Alicia S., Grade 4

Do you remember that old man

how he was pushing a baby buggy

in the afternoon and he walked around



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Marissa Spalding, Poet-in-Residence
Principal: Gloria Davis
Teachers: Mrs. Henderson
School: Price Elementary


Putting on my Clothes
a poem by Amori T., Grade 4

In the morning I open my

closet by the power of my index finger.

 



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Marissa Spalding, Poet-in-Residence
Principal: Gloria Davis
Teachers: Mrs. Henderson
School: Price Elementary


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a poem by Arieal C., Grade 4

You did not know that I love yellow

shirts under my school shirts I always wear

yellow shirts everyday. You would not know



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Marissa Spalding, Poet-in-Residence
Principal: Gloria Davis
Teachers: Ms. Vines
School: Price Elementary


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a poem by Ashley A., Grade 5

Winter, why do you have to come

every year? How old are you? Who are

your mother and your father? How come



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Marissa Spalding, Poet-in-Residence
Principal: Gloria Davis
Teachers: Ms. Vines
School: Price Elementary


The Moon
a poem by Aziyah J., Grade 5

Why does the moon always
follow you?

Where does the moon change
it's clothes when it is a whole moon
and a half moon?

How does the moon turn
yellow

 



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Marissa Spalding, Poet-in-Residence
Principal: Gloria Davis
Teachers: Mrs. Henderson
School: Price Elementary


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a poem by Channicia P., Grade 4

You need brown paper

a pen on top of brown paper

an earthquake going through the paper



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Marissa Spalding, Poet-in-Residence
Principal: Gloria Davis
Teachers: Mrs. Henderson
School: Price Elementary


Ode to my Jordans
a poem by Chase A., Grade 4

My Jordans are like a song



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Marissa Spalding, Poet-in-Residence
Principal: Gloria Davis
Teachers: Ms. Vines
School: Price Elementary


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a poem by Christian C., Grade 5
Why did King Kong become king?

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Marissa Spalding, Poet-in-Residence
Principal: Gloria Davis
Teachers: Mrs. Henderson
School: Price Elementary


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a poem by Danea B., Grade 4

You never knew that I’m good at jumping rope

when I first started jumping rope I was very

happy at myself because that was my first time



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Marissa Spalding, Poet-in-Residence
Principal: Gloria Davis
Teachers: Ms. Vines
School: Price Elementary


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a poem by Darnell W., Grade 5

You didn’t know you were taller

buff, handsome, run fast, flip,

bad at math, social studies, baseball,



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