During the WITS Summer Creative Writing Workshops held June 7 – June 25th, students from Charlotte Schneider and Mischa Enos’ third and fourth graders wrote poems about the sun and heat, expressing their strong feelings about Houston’s unique summer climate. You can feel the mercury rise with each word!
Summer Sun
The Heat is very hot and scorching,
causing drought and sweat.
Weeds and caterpillar grass are
drooping and then dying.
It is so hot!
You are playing around
and not caring about us!
By Olivia
Heat
Heat, heat
it is moist.
Sweating, sweating,
It makes you hot.
By Ryan
Dear Sun
O sun, your heat disappoints many.
Instead of singing, the birds
Are probably just yelling at you.
O sun, my skin is blazing in flames.
I get sunburns, so even inside,
I blaze in flames.
O sun, you make me tired and thirsty.
And don’t even get started on my eyes -
They burn and get tired of squinting
and blinking quickly.
O sun, black must be your favorite color.
No wonder you burn us!
By Grace
(Photo by Dan E. Johnson via Flickr)
