Our fabulous young writers from Heathcote Valley School drew on memories to write some amazing star gazing poems!
Stormy disguise
Wind blows my steamy breath
my bare feet
crunch the frost
that covers the lake shore
Clouds cover the moon
the deathly black
laps at my toes
I plunge and the cold
pulses in my ears
I float weightlessly
a gust of
bone-chilling air
thrusts the dark shadows aside
I am bathed
in sparkling water droplets
Holly N Year 8
SHOOTING STAR
Spheres of light glisten across
the black empty sky
while people
stare out of
windows,
see
a glowing ball
flying across the
night sky, its triangle tail
shooting through a sea of spheres.
Seth M Year 8
Little Blue Star
Strolling along the
Crispy, crunchy sand
I come across a
bright, blue star as if
it has fallen from up above
The cooling breeze drying out the poor thing
Gently, my father picks it up
and tosses it into the deep blue
Up, up, up high in the sky
tiny sparks of light shine upon the sea
like there is a firework show
projecting onto the water
Connie J, Year 8
Universal Puzzles
I get out my black pen and
my dot-to-dot book.
As the pen touches upon the first
dot, a star appears in the sky.
The beginning of time.
The tip of the pen glides
on the paper, and a phantom
path of transparent soul
weightlessly swirls through
the inky nothingness and
illuminates another star,
and another,
and another.
All of cosmos watches
and waits.
Even as I close my book,
the universe unfolds.
Sian W, Year 8
Our blinding stars
As ordinary as colour but as special
as the sun, nine stars
shine blindingly
back at our
blue and
green
ball.
Seth M Y8
Fireworks
As I run
across the field
sprinting past dark daisies
Boom!!!
Stars fall down
like fire balls.
big bright lights
at night.
Elyssa H Year 6
The single star
At the peak
of a mountain
a single star
rises into the black sheet
of darkness
It glints
as if it were winking
A bright dot
in this lonely world.
Lauren McC, Year 7
The weeping stars wallowed across the sky
It must be lonely
to float across space
on your own
slurring words
like shots of whiskey
Do stars do the same?
Polly S Year 7
A long time in the park
I sit on a swing
staring at the stars
as beautiful as they are,
I'm not ready to go up there
Mya F T Year 6
Stars along the night sky
I take a step along a starry path
I look up the stars, they
say hello through the trees.
A shiny star catches my eye
I feel one with it
I float up, and now
I’m one with them.
I look down on life below.
Mya F T Year 6
Ceiling stars
When stars are contained
in a tiny room
they fly high
and dance around
the bedroom light
Elsie K Year 6
Starry cave
Like stars in the night
I enter a cave full of light
I see them hanging of the rocks
like little white socks
They're small glowing grubs
that eat tiny grubs
I trudge through the cave,
a little like a glowing maze
I look up and see
little shining stars
looking back at me
Elsie K Year 6 and Macy R Year 5
In Bed
I lay in bed kicking my legs
looking at the glowing purple and blue stars
on my ceiling
Zia KB, Year 6
Night light
A cluster of stars
A constellation
A beauty they are
In a bottle, they go
light up the night
on my window sill
Stars dance
in my head
I close my eyes
into deep sleep
Macy R, Year 5
Stars of plasma
hotter than fire
yet they eject mass
colder than ice
Jamie I, Year 7
Did you miss the Dear Ancestor Poems we posted yesterday? Here they are.
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