Nature Aaron Tam A place of peace and balance Full of life and hope A place made of life and death Where plants and animals learn to live together They say this place is barren Empty of life But we hide from their words and ignore their comments Because of this, my failure to show A different life started to bloom Forced to live in areas separated from our people Forced to live alone
I'm Walking Up the Mountain Jamall Johnson I'm walking up the mountain thinking about how it was back in time where the native plants belong growing in the spring, very fine Walking up the mountain I wonder: Where did our great land go? Chasing classmates up the mountain I saw California poppies down low Climbing up the mountain I saw a crazy flying vulture hearing a bird sing in a tree I saw eucalyptus are a monoculture Drinking from my water bottle I was cruising up the mountain trying to find a balanced ecosystem I saw lots of plants that had me counting Writing down homework in my WALC Book I fell and classmates were to blame my shoes got really dirty getting home late from field trips will always be the same