Poems Explore Effects Of 9-11

September 26, 2003|Jennifer Choi and Danny Schwartzman and Michele Dume

The Creative Zone is a showcase of artwork, poetry, short stories and other creative work by elementary, middle and high school students. The following poems were written by ninth-grade social studies students in Glen Wolff's class at Cypress Bay High School in Weston. The assignment was to write about the importance of freedom on the second anniversary of the 9-11 attacks.

Americans as One

When the twin towers fell

We all fell with it

Scratches and bruises covered our bodies

We helped each other get back on our feet

And we helped each other clean up

And when we all stood up,

We stood taller than ever

Everyone was standing at the same height

Standing so strong

And over time, wounds healed

Out bruises faded

We are one

We are one

We are American

-- Jennifer Choi

Freedom Poem

Red, white and blue means freedom for me and you.

Thanks to freedom you can say I am going to do something new every day.

Hand to hand freedom comes, along with progress and beyond.

You could say it's true; without freedom we would be in the blues

Communism and fascism were swept away

Only with the help of freedom will make a better today

Rights and privileges that we now have

Are complex results of a nation united as one.

Triumph and glory are the middle names,

Of the value we uphold so high every single day

Drenched in blood and tears we will forever mourn

Those brave souls who perished in the name of freedom; a moral cause.

Once the building blocks for our nation's past

Freedom has become an indispensable value in our lives that will forever last.

-- Danny Schwartzman

America home of the free

United we shall be

Hand in hand we pray

For the ones we lost

The eleventh of September

We will always remember

That our freedom can be dismembered

If we don't stick together

Planes crashed into the two towers

And they came down in hours

All over the country Americans were worried

Because everything was happening in such a hurry

After this horrible day

America will never be the same.

-- Michele Dume

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