Bellevue Elementary Students Award Winning Poetry

Two third grade students from Bellevue Elementary School won awards for their poetry from the Central New York Branch of the National League of American Pen women 2012 Poetry Contest. The students wrote poems about an insect that they studied during the Say Yes afterschool program. Kai’Asia Reed won 2nd place for her poem, entitled “WETA.” Nyaisha Vazquez received an Honorable mention for her poem, “Firefly.”

Firefly By Nyaisha Vazquez	WETA By Kai’asia Reed
Sitting in my tree Waiting for nighttime To shoe off my glow Looking for worms, Snails and slugs To munch on! Don’t eat me toads And spiders! I may cause your death! My life is too short To show off my light! Three weeks and I am gone…	Larger than a mouse, But looking like a cricket, The disgusting creature! Scrapes and rubs its legs Making a strange noise. You will only see it in New Zealand, Where it has lived since, The Dinosaurs! Scaring humans, eating bugs, Lizards and turataras Escaping birds, rats, people and dogs. To live up to 2 full years! Hiding in its burrows or a hollow log, Just hope you don’t see one…