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Astronomy Poetry Contest |
April 2011 is Global Astronomy Month and National Poetry month. Thanks to everyone who entered the our contest. |
Poetry for Children Poetry for Adults Astronomy Songs |
Winner Juneau Chambley, 4th grade, Auke Bay Elementary School Starry Night Starry Night. The stars glow as the moon shines. A small gust of wind hits my face at 1mile per hour, whoosh! Hold on to the grass so you don't float to the stars! Aliens! Ahhh! Winner Holly Rose, 8th grade, Floyd Dryden Middle School Haiku Stars planets and rocks orbit a central point forming galaxies freely Winner Austin Gonzales, Floyd Dryden Middle School, 8th grade The Big Bang! The Big Bang started it all The Universe keeps on growing From a time when it once was small Smaller than an ant, a baseball Due to the poem I have just told As I look into the night sky I happen to see That many blinking lights Had shared their lights with me Thanks go to Leah Heiman, teacher at Floyd Dryden Middle School. Her class contributed the most poems. Winner Nina Chordas Associate Professor of English, University of Alaska Southeast Orion There's my friend Orion in the sky! I say "my friend," and yet I know him not - He takes his shape in tracing, "dot to dot": The "dots" are stars, the "pencil" is my eye. Orion's always hunting in the night: Across the black expanses, forth he strides; He wades the clouds as once he waded tides, His ardor puts the Pleiades to flight. I sometimes wonder what he hunts up there - Is it Diana, she so skilled in hunt? Or one elusive, absence kindling want, Forever fleeting to an unknown where? I can't just see him as a group of stars By chance arranged, a man to represent: He nightly stalks the sable firmament, Till peaceful dawn his questing progress bars. Ashtin Kenney Stars are beautiful and also blistering hot that's why they're awesome. Year 2012 the beautiful world may end but bright stars live on. galaxies are huge the universe is bigger its fascinating Daniel LeBlanc, 8th grade Stars Stars Burning Balls of gas It's called nuclear fusion Will last a lifetime Patrick Escorrido, FDMS, 8th grade, Floyd Dryden Middle School Our Earth Earth is green and blue Humans live on this planet Earth has oxygen ********************************* Cole Smith, Grade 8 Solar System Haiku (5,7,5) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, The outer planets. ********************************* Haley Ballou, 8th grade Awesome Science Teachers Rock On Neptune Over My Year ********************************* Jestoni Ramirez - 8th Grade Stars Nebula Gasses Losing Hydrogen Atoms Using Helium ********************************* Paula Latu, 8th grade I am covered by water and life Like ants covering an ant hill Across me there are little spots on my body that lets life survive I have a friend next to me I am like a older friend and a bigger friend to look up to. Thirty of me would fit between us. My friend is as big as the United States. Wherever I go my little friend is always there he follows me around all the time. Little ants on me have explored my friend. I have a neighbor that they call the Red Planet but we are different in ways The neighbor have does not have life like I do. My neighbor does not have water. Before ants on my planet explore my neighbor they will have to be ready for non stop storms and the desert like planet. ********************************* Kiko Iona , 8th grade EARTH, AND SPACE… The big bang started it all, It made all the planets start to fall, It started as a family of wonderful planets, But when it occurred it all went wrong, We live on Earth, With a lot of dirt, There are plants and ants that originally form, But sometimes they come as a worm, Read and write for me all night, Which is hard cause I need some light, I'm about to fall asleep ********************************* Brenda Wright, adult Spring arrives Our days expand Alas our spring light extinguishes stars. ********************************* Abel Orelove, adult Former Juneau Resident. Currently 5th grade math and science teacher in Illinois Venus There is a planet named Venus, On our path to Mercury, it's between us. Earth's sister planet, Dense atmospheric clouds and granite, It's beauty is really quite genius. ********************************* Michael Orelove, adult, Gresham, OR Planetarium volunteer for ten years) Pluto's no Planet, Pluto’s no planet some astronomers say It’s small and it’s icy and so far away They demoted Pluto and tried hard to ban it But for me little Pluto will still be a planet. |