Library Lovers Day coincides with another, more famous holiday, so this week we read “In the Library” by Charles Simic. The poem starts, “There’s a book called / ‘A Dictionary of Angels,’” and one of the first things we tackled was what a dictionary is for—meanings of words, references, origins, and usage—thinking about the many possible ways of interpreting the word angel. We also wondered about lines, in the second stanza, “The angels were once as plentiful / As species of flies”; how can angels and flies be compared? Is it just because they have wings and fly? As far as the setting, we looked at how the poet describes the library as well as its mysterious librarian, who’s “very tall” and “keeps / Her head tipped as if listening.” What does she hear?
In the poem’s third stanza, Simic writes, “The great secret lies / On some shelf Miss Jones / Passes every day on her rounds.” Secrets then became the inspiration for this latest assortment of poems. Check ’em out!
Mrs. Brown, 4th Grade
I Got Told a Secret
Ireland C.
I kept for a long time
in that time it floated down
a river. The secret bumped a lily pad and he
sunk down down. No one to hear him. After
years and years with no one to tell his secret
to he swam up to the top of the water.
He started to float up to the midnight
sky. He found a star and was lost for
a long time.
A Secret
Sophia D.
I have a secret that I love to play
video
games
no one knows
cause it’s like I’m
invisible like a
ghost so no one
sees me
no one can see me at the edge of the
table so
yeah I have one friend that can
know that I love to play video games but it is
also like she can’t
see
me!!!???
My Secret
Alexandra F.
Hi.
I’m
not
sharing
my
secret
so
I’m
making
one
up.
I
am
a
watermelon.
There.
You
happy?
What
more
do
you
want?!
Secrets
Grayson K.
My secrets, I have a pet
who lives in my bed and I
love the color red, I know this
is not true I like blue.
At my school all our birth-
days are in May in June.
I know it isn’t true,
but I sweat writing
my secrets.
The Secret
Gianni M.
The secret keeps special that certain
people shouldn’t know for a reason that’s
why it’s a secret. It’s what you
know on the inside and not what
people know on the outside. And that
is the secret.
Secrets
Reya S.
SO many secrets.
SO hard to keep.
SO many of them.
Shhh!
Don’t tell.
They say.
So hard to keep don’t know what to do.
Ahhhh!
So hard not to tell!
“DON’T TELL!”
They yell!
The pressure builds up.
Oh no!
I’m about to spill.
“Nooooo!”
They yell!
Mrs. Johnson, 4th Grade
Our Little Secret
Zaiden A.
I wake up 9 am
I grab two eggs I put them
on the pan I get tired because
I was up all night last night.
I take off what are now scrambled
eggs. Now I put on bacon and
out of nowhere I fall asleep.
I wake up to my sister panicking
and opening all the windows.
What happened I said. You let
the bacon burn dweeb! Snap I
say. Ten minutes go by what do
we tell mom I say. Nothing she says
it will be our little secret. Our
little secret I say.
Cranberries
Scarlet B.
I saw it before it went missing.
Or that’s what I thought folding it slowly as looking.
The cloth was red as cranberries but…
Nobody will never know. The secret will go unknown.
Untitled
Katie B.
It’s a big one. It’s the biggest one I’ve ever had.
Does it make me sad?
Does it make me mad?
Does it make me happy?
Does it make me guilty?
You will never know.
You will never know my secret.
Secrets
Samantha C.
Secrets are bad
Someone could eavesdrop
They could tell everyone
Never tell your secrets
My Friend’s Secret
Rihanna G.
As I walk
into my room
I can’t stop
thinking about
my friend’s secret
sometime I would
think I had it hers
were purple and pink
I can’t stop thinking
and I would blurt it
out 1, 2, 3, she has
glasses
The Secret Garden
Norah L.
The Secret Garden
lies behind unopened doors
don’t go behind it
it will blow up earth’s core
on the right some roses
the left a pond
a snowcone machine of which I am very fond
no one moans
no one groans
because the sign on the door
says it’s secret
so don’t walk closer anymore.
Untitled
Harrison S.
Sometimes I look outside and
see clouds or the sun smiling
at me I look down and remember
my childhood.
The Trophy
Vedika S.
I see it lying there dusty, plain,
old
and hear my
mom telling us to share.
My sister thinks it has
a stain and rusty, a secret
never to be told. My grandma’s
only 75
but…….
will never be old. She says
we
should sell it
DING…
sold
shh, it’s still old
Mrs. Rupp, 4th Grade
My Secret Hiding Place
Kathleen A.
My secret hiding place
is big and wide
and the perfect place to read an interesting book!
It’s the perfect place
for anyone, you can
build sleep and relax.
It’s a secret world,
for anyone,
but the secret is mine to keep.
Secrets
Darwin B.
Secrets.
The words of
wisdom no one
can hear.
The silent
gossip
ear to
ear.
No one
knows
but the one
who keeps
it.
When it
is told it
could spread
like
wildfire
or
NOT
The Secret
Payton C.
I have a secret
and I have to keep
it I wanna tell
you but it will not
sell you if I told you
you would not believe
so I must leave
fine…the secret
is I like….
ducks
happy?
Yes you must
be see I’ve told
you now leave me alone
no? Well I say yes now
leave fine you don’t wanna
leave I will make you drink
a fish smoothie hahaha
what? You still don’t wanna
leave fine I’ll leave
hey! Don’t follow me
bye! Fine we will stay
together but please let me
leave eventually no?
Fine
Untitled
Rylie J.
Secrets are meant to be kept
and rules are meant to be broken
the truths we keep the lies
we tell gives us hope for
all the future.
Secret
Cullen J.
The act of keeping something to yourself.
I have a few of those,
for example, I eat 15 pounds of waffles every morning.
Oops, not a secret…
anymore!
One of my other ones is _______, it’s a secret!
So, SHHHHHHH, DON’T TELL ANYONE!
Untitled
Mel L.
I have a secret
will you keep it?
It has three letters
couldn’t be better
it is on my wall
you can bounce it
like a ball
it is in the globe
not abode
the secret
it is a secret
that no one will keep
so I don’t tell
never be well.
If I have it
I don’t share it
if I share it
I don’t have it
what is it?
A secret.
Why
Emika M.
A secret is locked up inside
my friend
I don’t know what, but with
no end
I think and think of what it
might be
and wonder why they won’t
tell me.
Why oh why oh why
oh why
I try and try and try
and try
I think but fail of what if
could be
and wonder why they won’t
tell me.
I wonder if they just
can’t know
the feeling of a secret
let go
Untitled
Samar M.
I have a lock box
everything I
love is in
it.
I will tell
NOT tell you what is
in
it
because you will steal
it.
Untitled
Adam S.
I have a secret
it is unknown
it is about something.
I will not tell
you. Stop being
nosy.
I WILL NOT
TELL YOU
J.K.
It is…
nothing!
Mr. O’Brien, 4th Grade
The Secret
Sebastien D.
A secret is a lock. You may not see it.
It is folded until you unfold it. You keep it locked until
you unlock it for somebody. A secret is something you must hide.
You must hide it till you reveal it but by all means
DO NOT SHARE IT
FBI Secrets
Elijah O.
The FBI is a boss
The FBI is fearless
The FBI is a strong force
team
The FBI is:
strong
fearless
great
cool
awesome
and loyalty.
FBI is trained to:
take over the
police
and deal with
crimes.
Secrets
Carson P.
My brain is where
I keep all my in-
formation. Sometimes
the info is stuff
I like to keep.
I keep it to myself
and myself and me
alone. My secrets can
be stuff not important
or stuff that I’m
being just sneaky
about or it can
be just secrets
I can’t tell.
It also may
be troubles I
keep in store.
Secrets, secrets
secrets.
Inspired by: Pretty Little Liars
Alessandra R.
Dressed in black
you hear the sound of your high heels
you look back
to see the fear of your friends
you feel guilt
is this the end?
Should you feel this way
your thoughts drowned by tears
you decide to stay
“Don’t worry your secret is
safe with me for now”
the message is from
—A
You look to see your friends scared
looking at their phones
Secrets
Anoushka T.
No one can know.
If they did,
it would be done.
They would know.
It wouldn’t be
a secret.
If I told them,
then they would know
and it wouldn’t
be…a…secret.
Untitled
Cypress T.
The water is very full.
Water = Secrets. I went over
to the soft, glittering
cover of the old diary
my great grandma gave
me and I started to write…
“Shhhhh…don’t tell anyone
diary, you’re my only hope
so spill the
water, it’s getting heavy.”
I could not trust that
old diary because
when I said I thought
my parents are getting
divorced and I hope
for none of that it
goes right on ahead and
makes that happen.
That old diary was getting
its brain a little sturdier
because when I was 14
they got back together
surprisingly.
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Andrew W.
I don’t know what to say about
secrets I have nothing to say
yet but the only word I know
is secret I can’t say a secret
because that wouldn’t be keeping
a secret and breaking their
promise so secrets were meant to
be kept not shared with others.
Secrets
Rian X.
Once upon a time
there was a
person, that
loved secrets.
Their name was
Bob. He loved
to keep things
to himself.
He was selfish
until one day
a lion came
by.
It said, “If
you don’t
tell em all
of your
secrets you will
be eaten.”
So Bob told
all of his
secrets and
learned his
lesson.
