Wildflowers

FRIEND

Find her where people are

Respecter of all, helpful, kind.

In her way Penelope looks to please

Every day it is a mission.

Nested into the classroom culture

Deep into what needs to be done. 

 Lighted Path

The subtle presence

lights a path to the inner

source of Jasmine, a girl who

is chill and fresh, intelligent, smiling her

secret smile, never wavering.

EDGES

Early on she showed us that she

Doesn't always follow the way.

Genius, really, to lower expectations,

Engineered to keep Jazmin free, to keep the

Sun shining around her, to keep her edge.

TRACK

Testing the limits

Resting on response

All-American Ethan

Confident in movement

Kicking conformity 

STRONG

for Jonathan

Straight talker

Thinker and creator

Respectful presence

One who stays grounded

Neutralizes situations

Golden link in the chain

Dobbin Discovers

It is in the way he approaches everything, the

happiness that begins to form

on Dobbin's face when he discovers a new feeling, it is

worth the price of admission, an eternal

enchanting flow of delight.

Night Sky

She could guide the moon across the sky,

waiting, patient.

She a vast spiral, teeming with stars,

Itzel is a startling amount of light

perfectly clear.

Shaped, yet unseen

above the horizon.

Dance With Her

Let your heart dance

Let your heart sing

Let your heart fly to the wind

By the spirit of her presence

Margo invites us to

dance with her in the light

and sing a chorus to the sun 

OCEAN

Obstacles -- she has none

Creativity -- plenty

Expressive Milana is wide

And free as the sea

Nothing can stop her movement.

RIDDLE

Reverse any expectations

In Cameron, he will forever

Do his own thing, not easy to

Determine just what it will be,

Like a mystery in human form,

Ever confounding the order of things. 

Taylor Trusts

A space between leaving and staying,

approaching herself from here to there,

Taylor fades, falls backward, dreams

a whole world balanced on carved ice,

darkness open to all light.

 HELIUM

He is an original.

Elevated status, floating free

Like a hidden path or

Underground tunnel, Fabricio

Manages escape unscathed.

QUARTZ

Quick thinker, Niah is not to be 

Underestimated. She has the goods!

Always has. Focus and energy in

Reserve, she is a cornerstone

Trusting in the process,

Zoom lens to the center of things.

***Inspirations***

"Summer Garden" by Anna Akhmatova (two)

"The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window" by Joy Harjo 

"Mambo Cadillac" by Barbara Hamby

"Workshop" by Billy Collins

"Seen from Above" by David Whyte

"Waiting for Meteors" by Twyla M. Hansen

"Those Who Do Not Dance" by Gabriela Mistral

"They Ask Why" by Maya Angelou (two)

"White Bear" by Joy Harjo

"Betty Boop's Bebop" by Barbara Hamby

"Ganymede's Dream of Rosalind" by Barbara Hamby