Eyes and Ears Wide Open

With wide-open eyes, the sky stares down
On the giant firs and the tiny buttercups

Wind, with relaxed ears, listens to
The lion’s roar and the mouse’s whimper

Quiet and kind, roaring and strong, earth is home
To the two-inch mole hill, the mile-high mountain

Forest, sheltering all living things
Like the brown bear and the black beetle

Sand and rock, holding up the oceans and ponds
A stone bowl brimmed with water

Sky, wind, earth, forest
Sand, rock and oceans

Eyes and ears wide open

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Annie Zamojski, Age 12
Lakeside Middle School
Seattle, Washington
Teacher: Alicia Hokanson
Teacher: Jane Disney