For Children

Miller Goldsmith

Fire

2017 5th & Sixth Grade Poetry Honorable Mention

A small flame.

Tick

Motivation growing.

Tock

Eating, and burning a path.

Tick

Behind the Podium.

Tock

Red Flaring. Growing.

Tick

Speech, melting.

Tock

Persuading, taking shapes.

Tick

People, blinded.

Tock

The country

Tick

Ashes.

Tock

Gone.

Tick.

Tock.