Through The River Memories Flow Lourdes Torres Downtown High School Never had I imagined myself beside a waterfall watching shimmering water flow slowly by The music of the river carries so much rhythm dramatically meeting the surface of moss covered rocks for only as long as seasons change like the voices i hear in my head of wise teachers and silly friends Knowing this is the last time I treasure deeply moments spent here next to the flowing river taken back to my very first time camping with WALC in an enchanting wonderland Sitting on this gray rock where ancestors sat before me feeling sweet coolness through the seat of my pants slopign backwards in the groove of stone I relax into memories of all the wonderful miles I've shared with forest and wind Outside the Building of Books Sonya Sia Balboa High School Step outside the building of books and enter a world that is pure yet not pristine Once ignorant minds see more than the luxuries that America forces its people to desire Yet more and more ears open wide to the knowledge preached from mouths of wise minds Listen closely as their emotions unravel into words of forgotten languages once inscribed on tongues of natives who sought the Dream that ruined lives Trot closely toward the people who, like the soil, belong to without owning the land that men have not treated as regal though more precious than a king's corwn First hand experiences with nature don't come like second hand smoke for medicine now cannot cure the smog that stangles our future aspirations because the city is no place to accomodate the entire human race