Heaven Feelings

roses blooming
tattered secrets,
rivers full of thirst
blooming out and in
like puffy white clouds
leading to heaven
heaven
rainy and tall.
ground,
dusty and short
feels like earth,
earth bloomed out,
out of that tiny seed
colder than those wings,
wings of those angels
angels driving and driving away

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Esmeralda Avila, age 9
Oakland, California
Dolores Huerta Learning Center
Teachers: Elana Cassara/John Oliver Simon (Poetry Inside Out)