Poems by the students of Tamaques Elementary, Westfield, NJ

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A WAY OF LIFE

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There are two

pathways.

There's only one option.

There's a life ahead of me.

There's two pathways,

one where I could be a football player or

where I could be a garbage man but…

there was only one option.

The ghosts and monsters don't make me choose.

I do

They're not changing my life.

I change my life.

I don't have to be popular.

I don't have to be unpopular.

I can be me and me is the best version of me

and nobody can change who I am.

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Santino Cerullo

5th Grade

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I MADE THE RIGHT DECISION

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I want to take a road but I do not know which

Left or right one is bumpy one is not

I'm going to take the bumpy one

Why, you ask?

I want to work hard for the stuff I want

I want to be a surgeon who helps people every day

I know I can do it, I know I will.

respiratory failure, lung transplants, gallbladder removal

I'm going to be the guy and I will till I die.

Did I take the right path I will never know

Meet the love of my life on the other road

I’ll never know but helping people is my deed

god told me to do maybe someday I’ll help you.

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Marco Gameiro

5th Grade

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A LIFE IS A PATH

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A life is a path

With curves and twists

Followed by someone walking on it

Sometimes you go right

Sometimes you go left

But you will always turn

One way or another you will finish

But it’s the path it takes to get there

That’s different

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A path could have trees with roots curved in all ways

A path could have taken days

But maybe just maybe you took the right path

And for all those people that took the wrong path

At least you finished

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Calvin Giordano

5th Grade

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I CAN WALK UP THE PATH

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I can walk up the path

Where the music and dogs will be

Where the flowers will grow

And where the sun always shines

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I can continue to go on the path

That I once decided I should take

But I can go my own way

Where my fate isn’t written on paper,

But in the future

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I chose to go my own way

The way where the rain might pour down hard,

But the sun always comes back up

And the verse could end

But the song keeps going

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Lydia Hollander

5th Grade

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I WANT TO GO DOWN THAT ROAD

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I want to go down the road

That brings me to the shelves

A road that has no code

A road that lets me in easily

A road that lets me write

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A road that takes me to success

A road that gives me more than less

A road that lets me on the page

A road that has no cage

A road where I can write

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A road with different genres all alike

A road that has no lightning strike

A road with nice people all around

A road where I am bound,

To be an author

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Luke Iafolla

5th Grade

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I HAVE FULL COURAGE

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I have full courage

In the darkest nights,

And in the lightest days.

Standing up to the crowd,

Showing them who I am,

I want to be a singer.

That's the path I choose to follow.

I want to be as mighty as a lion,

I want to be strong,

I want to be different,

I will never be wrong.

I want to be an upstander,

I want to be a singer,

a dancer,

a writer,

an actor,

and way more.

And I’m not afraid

To go down my path.

I can be anything I want.

Singing with a big voice,

It’s the right choice.

I love myself,

I only want to be me, and nobody else.

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Maya Levine

5th Grade

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WHEREVER YOU GO

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Wherever you go there will always be a path in the morning it is light and in the

night it is pitch black.

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It can have turns or not but even on the one that doesn't have turns you can make

them yourself.

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I want to have the sun so bright it is talking but sometimes there are storms coming

out.

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On your path it will take a while some parts will have roots sticking out and some

will be soft grass.

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You can always try moving something in your way but it may not work every time

and that is okay because tomorrow can be a new path.

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Guiliana Oriol

5th Grade

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THE PATH I AM ON RIGHT NOW

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The path I am on right now,

it is just getting started.

I work hard for my future,

and stand tall,

to fight for myself.

The path I want to go down,

is a strong person,

who is not afraid,

I want to be different,

I want to be unique,

I want to be an upstander,

for myself and for others,

I want to work harder than ever,

But to only be myself.

I want to be as smart as a lion,

I will never get scared.

I will face my fears.

I want to be everything.

I want to be,

a speaker,

a singer,

a actor,

a dancer.

I can be anything,

But I want to be just me.

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Clementine Parish

5th Grade

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THE ROAD I TOOK

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The road I could have taken

was the popular road,

but I didn’t,

I took the weirdly cut road

easily

because the people

were kind

unlike the others

they were sweet as honey

they promised to stay with me,

I didn’t feel alone anymore.

That was always me.

When Grace

became my friend

she helped me through hard times

when life ends

I will always remember this.

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Ella Reiser

5th Grade

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THE ROAD NOT TAKEN: A HOMAGE TO ROBERT FROST

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I never know what path to take,

The harder it gets as it changes my fate.

Left or right or maybe towards,

I need to figure out where to go to forwards.

Should I go where it's all right,

Where the birds shine in their flight?

Or go where it can be wrong,

Where the birds can mess up their song?

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I go towards where it’s not perfect,

I hope and yet know it will be worth it.

I really want this path to be right,

If it is not, I will change my flight.

I walk down the road and see it beauty,

I really hope the people will accept me.

I meet them to see they are kind,

But they are not perfect, it is what I find.

I learned they all make mistakes,

But their overwhelming kindness is not fake.

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Lily Robbins

5th Grade

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I COULD HAVE

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I could have

Walked along

The rainbow

To get to the pot of gold

I could have done my own thing

And treat myself

But instead I took

The Darker path

Witch led me to

Helping others.

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Alana Rossi

5th Grade

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THERE WERE TWO ROADS

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There were two roads a girl had to pick,

And the roads were not very slick,

The girl choose the left road,

But she was very thrown.

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The girl found a man,

He really was super nice and bland,

She went with him,

And they lived happily ever after,

But, the girl wondered,

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What would had happened if

the girl picked the right road,

Sometimes, we just never know.

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Emery Wasicki

5th Grade