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YWA Winner 2010 - Poetry Grades 3-4
Silver Liftin - A Hump of Gold


The hump of a camel,
With golden-brown hair,
Bounces slowly up and down
With every step the glorious creature takes,
Like the heads of children jumping on a black and blue trampoline.

His head is raised slightly to the left
As he stops to watch the yellow mound of Jell-O
Set in the East.
Then he blinks,
Those black grapes from God’s garden,
Twice,
And continues slowly
But steadily
Toward his destination.

 


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