Patriotic Rock

The car is full of music

Everybody is having a good time

Looking out the window, something caught the corner of my eye

We stop the car, and walk out to the side of the road

A rock standing right before my eyes

A large rock, a colorful rock, a patriotic rock

Laying on the top was the American flag

Soldiers standing all around this rock

Reminding me of the soldiers that created America

I was standing in astonishment

My hand creeps over to touch the rock

As soon as I touch the flag

My hand feels this hard cold rock

This American flag is a painting

All day I could not stop thinking about his rock

(This rock is real)

Emily Dickinson's Poems

A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
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Emily Dickinson was a lonely woman who spent her life inside her whole life writing poems. This poem, "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass", she is writing about how she hasn't had any relationships with a guy. The snake represents how her relationships come and go in a flash. At the end of the poem it says, "Zero at the Bone". That means that every time she goes deeper in her relationship, it seems to disappear.

The Mountain

Looking up at the clear blue sky
At the clouds going by
Eagles, hawks, and birds flying around
Looking for food that slithers on the ground
The sun beating down on the sparkling lake
Flowing right in front of the mountain
I heard it laughing at me
Reminding me the times that I have failed
It keeps on shouting at me again and again
Saying I will never win
But my voice says I can
I challenge the mountain
It was just me and the mountain
Nobody else around me
One step on the mountain
And my journey begins
All day and all night
One slip and I fail
At long last, my journey is complete
I have conquered the mountain