A RUINED WEB By JC, Tran, Anna, Leslie, Anvivi, Helen, Misu, Timothy, Jack & Nhi, ages 9 & 10
Tag: Tran
THE FIRST TIME I SAW HER By Tran, JC & Anna, age 10 and Helen, age 9
THE FIRST TIME I SAW HER By Tran, Helen, Jessica C. & Anna L.
She was sitting on her preschool cot,
sobbing.
It was like the time I went to the
Hello Kitty store in Japantown
and picked up a stuffed
bunny and petted its soft ears,
lulling myself into
wonderland.
And like when I grabbed all those
puffy stickers,
the glittery musical notes,
hearts,
stars,
pink,
silver,
blue,
all of that shimmer in between
my fingers,
peeling the shapes off of the
slippery plastic
and sticking them on my wall
and Mom saying,
the landlord will be mad
but
who
cares?
MASQUERADE By Jack, Nhi, Tony, Misu, Tran & Alan
Masquerade
By Jack, Nhi, Tony, Misu, Tran & Alan
Sheep-shaped
clouds
blossom
balloons
and
blanket
helicopters.
Sun rays
burn my shoulder.
The moon glows
in a San Francisco sky,
alone.
The city
drowns
the stars
in light.
ON POINT By Tran, age 10
On Point
Tando
plié
trampoline jumps
sashay
polka
Stomach,
Flat as a pancake
Legs,
Stiff as boards
Relevé
one foot,
two heels,
two heels,
a pear,
upside-down.
THE LADY OF THE SHADOWS By Jessica C. & Tran, both age 10
MY STROLLER By Tran, age 9
Gleaming
in the sun,
Heart shaped
spots dot
its nylon seat,
Blue
as the Saigon
sky,
Its pillow
puffed
like a
cloud,
lulling
me to sleep.
The wheels
squeak as they
roll.
I had to
leave it
behind.
I did not get a new
one
in America.
CABBAGE LOOPERS: A Scientific Comic Book by Jessica C., Anvivi, Tran & Sharlene
POP! Poetry by JC & Tran
TALL GIRL By Tran, Jessica C., Jessie, Wendy & Alex, ages 9-11
Tall Girl hops over kitten.
Kitten purrs.
Tall Girl twirls
around the playground.
Teacher screams,
“Watch out for the wall.”
Tall Girl gallops to the library.
The donkeys here kick
books off shelves.
Tall Girl’s ear tears into
four furry bits that hear:
1. Screaming
2. Stomping
3. Shuffling pages
4. Silence. Shh!
Tall Girl reads about how to
regrow sadness. She wants to be alone.
Inspired by Anne Waldman’s poem “Fast Speaking Woman.”
Watch Room 2 perform a Readers’ Theater adaptation of the poem here:
Room2Ruminations 