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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

In honor of Banned Books Week, we give you a poem about book burning. For more information about the freedom to read, you can check out the current issue of READ Magazine.

FIRE
Poem by Lydia Warters, Grade 8

I am the fire
Crackling heat burning strongly
As I take in paper
I am the heat
Warming
The house of Mystery
For I am the fire

I feel sorry
As I eat up books
Burning the amazing world of a story
I will take away its magic words
Page by page
A book never read again
I am sorry for I am the fire

I see the words
In the pages of a book
Melting away
A path of black smoke
Trails silently behind me
Two girls stand deep in thought
They speak no words
I burn on
For I am the fire

I hear the crackling pop
Of myself
As I burn on
The silent noise
Of a page turning
In the last book remaining
I hear for I am the fire

I wish the best
For the house
In which
I once so strongly burned
I will soon be gone
So
I hope for the best
For everyone
I wish this for I was the fire

Posted by
StudentWriter
on 9/26/2006
9:49 AM

9/26/2006 12:44:03 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

Great poem for an eith grader.it is one of the greatest poems ive read in a while. great decriptions i can almost picture the fire in my mind

Keny Petroski

9/28/2006 4:06:59 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

See www.GoReporter.com for the full story on the Minot, ND book burnings that originally made news on The DrudgeReport. It's not what you might expect.

Snashin

9/28/2006 6:42:30 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

This is a great poem! I think that for a writer of eight grade. Keep on writing!

Dinalb

10/4/2006 3:13:43 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

your poem was really good..but you need some stronger verbs through out your poems..that poem overall was a really good..just take my advice..bye

Emily

10/24/2006 9:49:26 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

You peom was great. I really like your writing stlye because I like to write like that to. It sounds so proffesinal. The only thing I did not like about it was that it talked about burning books mabey you should of wrote aout burning other things...just a thought.

Falon

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