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      November 7, 2014Junuh TolanEvening Trees

      Holding my father’s hand
      Telling me his side of the story
      Helping me up on the wall
      Telling me the war of the trees
      And the wind
      Trees falling
      Wind dropping hearts stopping
      Helping each other up not knowing
      Wind is on the attack
      Birds rushing to the water
      Feathers flying
      Sneezing people
      Birds falling
      Right back to the ground

      from 2014 RYPA

      Junuh Tolan (age 10)

      Why do you like to write poetry?

      “In a poem I add onto what already happened with words and details. Those words and details give me that experience and add things from my imagination that surprise me and turn that experience into something else: a poem.”