The Sun in Children’s Poetry

To celebrate tomorrow’s solstice, I’m posting the following poems, which were written by students at my school, the Bronx Charter School for Better Learning.  All poems mention the sun.  For additional poems, click here and here.

 Haiku

Dreaming with the sun
Swaying with the jellyfish
Relaxation…..shhhh!

–  5^th Grade girl

Cars

When it’s sunny and hot
I like to be there
day and night

To hear the cars
crashing and shifting

To watch racing, clipping, shifting
while I eat ice cream

I will be back again
every day of my kid life
that makes me happy

–   3^rd Grade boy

The Ways of Glad

Blinding smile
Glowing eyes
Giggling till
You fall
Sprinting on
The clouds
And gliding
In the sky

Buying a
Hovercar
Hovering to
Mars
Riding the
Rings on Saturn
Diving in the
Oceans of
Pluto

Taking a
Tan on the
Sun
Surfing the
Solar system
So many more
Ways of being
Glad

–  3^rd Grade girl

Life and Death

Life and Death that’s what happened to
my father.

He had dark brown eyes just like me
black hair, and never stopped
loving me.

One sunny morning someone shot him 2
years from June 2.

He died when he was 37 and my anger
still rises till this
day forward.

–  3^rd Grade girl

Haiku

The beautiful sun
Setting in the pretty sky.
People get calmer.

–  2^nd Grade boy