Your Poems 2012

Poems about Cyclones, Humidity and Evolution.

Destruction by Zoë (age 11)
Whitfield State School, Cairns

Hurricanes, typhoons
Tornadoes, cyclones
Devastating, dangerous
Destructive and demonic

Category one
Category two
Category three, four, five

The roar of the wind
Descending upon poor villages
Ripping and wrenching
Roofs off their hinges

Red dusty deserts
Welcome the life-giving rain
When some suffer pain
Others gain

Where broken trees and ripped leaves are left to die
Birds and bumblebees will fly

Humidity by Elise
Whitfield State School, Cairns

She can make you feel
very very sticky and
very very icky.

I bet bet bet
she can make you sweat
All day long she’ll feel very strong.
She causes condensation
a soft damp sensation.

She
is
HUMIDITY.
She moves with fluidity.

You can’t see her
nor can you hear her.
You can’t tame her or blame her.
She’s only made of water vapour!

Evolution by Claire
Whitfield State School, Cairns

Changes happen every day
Slowly gradually in many ways
Like humans used to be one little cell
Now we are complex strong and well.

What is this process called evolution?
It’s like a slow-motion revolution
Creatures adapting to their home
Wherever they may choose to roam.

Evolution is here in many ways
And doesn’t happen in a matter of days
Adjusting and adapting to a new area
Can take a species many millennia.

Evolution is the fish in the sea
That turned into apes wild and free
From those apes humans emerged
From their trees they scattered and surged.

We wouldn’t be here on planet Earth
If that small cell hadn’t been in the surf
To think we wouldn’t be alive
If one little cell hadn’t arrived.