Kent’s Park Orchard Elementary student Alexis Thompson read the following poem as part of the Writers in the Schools Student Reading and Celebration June 1 at the downtown Seattle Public Library. She also read the poem June 22 in front of the Kent School Board.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Dear Flower<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n by Alexis Thompson<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Flower flower<\/p>\n<\/p>\n I can\u2019t abide without you<\/p>\n<\/p>\n I need a friend<\/p>\n<\/p>\n A friend that sits beautifully on the green meadow<\/p>\n<\/p>\n With the most scrumptious honey<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Yes, you have spontaneous honey<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Warm, soft sweet and delicate honey<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Oh dear I cannot live without you<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Without you<\/p>\n<\/p>\n I am just a honey less bee<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Without my flower<\/p>\n<\/p>\n All the other bees will make fun of me<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Please, you are one exquisite flower<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Your fragile but soft yellow petals<\/p>\n<\/p>\n They are like a pillow<\/p>\n<\/p>\n What will I do when it rains?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Where will I find cover for my wings?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Flower, you have to know<\/p>\n<\/p>\n You are the ray of my sun<\/p>\n<\/p>\n I\u2019m flying around the snowy white covered meadow<\/p>\n<\/p>\n I\u2019m shivering, gritting my teeth<\/p>\n<\/p>\n All is empty<\/p>\n<\/p>\n I missed you so much<\/p>\n<\/p>\n that I had hallucinations of you<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Oh my, what am I going to do without you?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n At night, I dream about hugging your petals<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Tasting your delicious honey<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Showing you off<\/p>\n<\/p>\n and being your friend<\/p>\n<\/p>\n I thought it would never end<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Flower, it might have been my best memory of you<\/p>\n<\/p>\n I will never forget it<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Flower, please come back as soon as you can<\/p>\n<\/p>\n At least, when it\u2019s warm and sunny<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Miss you,<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Bee<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Alexis Thompson is a fifth-grade student at Park Orchard Elementary in Kent.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Park Orchard, 11010 S.E. 232nd St., was the first Kent school to partner with Seattle Arts and Lectures to offer the Writers in the Schools program. Park Orchard joined the Writers in the Schools program two years ago. Each school in the program houses a professional writer in resident who visits classrooms once a week.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The poem will be published in the Writers in the Schools anthology.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kent’s Park Orchard Elementary student Alexis Thompson read the following poem as part of the Writers in the Schools Student Reading and Celebration June 1 at the downtown Seattle Public Library. She also read the poem June 22 in front of the Kent School Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":18460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-18459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18459"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}