Teenagers and Poetry Project

By Su Yun

1. The Wind's Home ‖ Zhang Tianyue (Yuxiu Primary School)
The wind's home is in the fields;
When the wind comes home,
The rice plants sway happily left and right.

The wind's home is in the forest;
When the wind comes home,
The big trees bow politely one by one.

2. Night Falls ‖ Xin Wanyi (Yuxiu Primary School)
Night falls,
The earth calms down too.
Listen, the insects are singing;
Look, the stars are blinking;
Smell, the flowers are quietly fragrant.

Night falls,
The little baby listens to lullabies,
Falls into a deep sleep.
Only Mom remains,
Her figure knitting sweaters by the desk lamp.

3. Dream ‖ Hou Junxi (Yuxiu Primary School)
Dreams run around the world,
Like running athletes,
Shuttling back and forth all the way,
Until the end of success.

4. Little Brother Wind ‖ Hou Junxi (Yuxiu Primary School)
Naughty Little Brother Wind
Knocked over Mom's vase.
The full happiness and warmth inside
Spilled all over the world.

5. Time ‖ Pei Xiyue (Yuxiu Primary School)
Time
Is a cute little white rabbit.
It runs in the long river of years;
When I turn back,
It has already run far away.

Time
Is a moving train.
Before I can enjoy the scenery,
It has arrived at the next platform.

6. The Stars' School
Ji Keran, 9, Guanzhuang Primary School, Jiashizhuang Town, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province

The stars' school
is where the moon lives.
They have groups of friends.
Teacher Moon sometimes teaches writing,
sometimes math,
sometimes singing.
They clap their little hands and finish school.
Grandpa Sun
comes to take them home,
and they close the door to do their homework.

7. The Sticking-Up Hair
Liu Yishan, 9, Guanzhuang Primary School, Jiashizhuang Town, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province

Hair and the hair tie had a fight.
As soon as the hair tie tries to hold the hair,
the hair runs away in anger.
Once angry, it's hard to soothe—
it pouts its little "mouth" high up.

8. Snow's Friends
Zhang Jiaxing, 9, Guanzhuang Primary School, Jiashizhuang Town, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province

Snow and the north wind
are good friends.
When snow falls,
the wind blows.
They drift around,
playing tricks.
Children are also
snow's good friends.
When snow falls,
children laugh,
having snowball fights,
building snowmen,
throwing snowballs.

9. The Grass's School
Xue Ruotong, 9, Guanzhuang Primary School, Jiashizhuang Town, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province

Spring teaches the grass to grow tall.
A few drops of spring rain,
and they grow even taller.
When the spring wind passes by,
the grass starts dancing and celebrating wildly.
Teacher Spring hides in the clouds in the sky,
watching them study on their own.

10. Spring's Alarm Clock
Xue Jiashuo, 9, Guanzhuang Primary School, Jiashizhuang Town, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province

Spring has come,
but I'm still in my dream.
Beautiful flowers bloom quietly.
Little bees fly to the flowers,
tinkering with the flower clocks with their little hands.
Tick-tock, tick-tock—
I'm woken up by spring's alarm clock.

11. Cotton Candy
Pei Chenyu, 9, Guanzhuang Primary School, Jiashizhuang Town, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province

Winter is shouting,
"Cotton candy! Cotton candy!"
I run outside
and take a big lick.
The cold cotton candy is in my stomach,
hugging me sweetly.

12. Clouds
Li Yijia, 9, Guanzhuang Primary School, Jiashizhuang Town, Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province

The cloud is sad—
whoosh, whoosh, whoosh,
tears keep falling.
The sun runs out to comfort it,
making a rainbow for it.
The cloud smiles happily.

Su Yun, 17 years old, is a member of the Chinese Poetry Society and a young poet. His works have been published in more than ten countries. He has published two poetry collections in China, namely Inspiration from All Things and Wisdom and Philosophy, and one in India titled WITH ECSTASY OF MUSINGS IN TRANQUILITY. He has won the Guido Gozzano Orchard Award in Italy, the Special Award for Foreign Writers in the City of Pomezia, and was praised by the organizing committee as the "Craftsman of Chinese Lyric Poetry". He has also received the "Cuttlefish Bone" Best International Writer Award for those under 25.

*Note: All these poems have obtained the approval of their teachers, who personally submitted them to me. Additionally, consent has also been given by the teenagers themselves and their parents.

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