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Winter Trees                                                                                 

BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

All the complicated details

of the attiring and

the disattiring are completed!

A liquid moon

moves gently among

the long branches.

Thus having prepared their buds

against a sure winter

the wise trees

stand sleeping in the cold.

If you would like to read the students' poems which were inspired by 

William Carlos Williams click here.

Birch Trees

By John Richard Moreland  

The night is white,

The moon is high,

The birch trees lean

Against the sky.

The cruel winds

Have blown away

Each little leaf

Of silver gray.

O lonely trees

As white as wool….

That moonlight makes

So beautiful.

Thomas, Owen, Kansas and Cecilia

Excerpt From Langston Hughes's "Keep You Hand On The Plow"  

Keep Your Hand On The Plow! Hold On!
The plow plowed a new furrow
Across the field of history.
Into that furrow the freedom seed was dropped.
From that seed a tree grew, is growing, will ever grow.
That tree is for everybody,
For all America, for all the world.
May its branches spread and shelter grow
Until all races and all peoples know its shade.
KEEP YOUR HAND ON THE PLOW! HOLD ON! 

Click here  for poetry the third graders wrote which has been inspired by Langston Hughes.