My Life's Milestones

a collection of poetry

By Davis

Dedicated to my Mom and Dad for supporting me while I grow.

May 11, 2021

Reading

Before I knew the wonderful doors books could open, I didn’t like to read outside of my comfortable zone. Piggy and Gerald was an all-time favorite. It was funny, it had pictures, and I could easily read the quotes. But then, things started to change. In Kindergarten, at Trinity school, I read a comic book with my reading partner. There were many pictures and only a few words which was encouraging. When I was done with that one, I read more books and fell in love with reading. I gradually started to read books with mostly words. The words painted pictures in my brain so I no longer needed the illustrator to draw them. Wings of Fire is a special book to me because the characters are mostly dragons and the genre is my favorite, adventure. 

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Playing Piano

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I start the piano
Pressing the first few keys
So different from the violin that brushes the bow
and trumpets that blow out notes from the air
This instrument is hard!
My mother says it’ll be all fine
But I still worry
What if I can’t do it?
I finish learning what the keys are
And I start having fun 
A grand piano arrived
Big and beautiful
My mother once said You can do it
It’ll be alright
She is right

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Moving to America

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I have allergies
My family is concerned 
We move to America
I miss my home
When will my family ever go back?
I meet a doctor
She thinks in different ways than others
Now I can eat many things
And have a happier life
So glad that I came to America

Big Zebra

My stuffy’s sufficiently magical mind 
Yearns for me to stay and play all day

Zebra dreams sometimes seem extreme
Eyeing a lying lion. He bustles towards their muscles
Blissfully hissing around suspiciously
Ready to be steady, he finds a shedding teddy
Activates his stripes for an activity of amazing mazes

My Future Dream

Watching a video
on YouTube 
about the human body 
I want to make people live forever 
Endless time 

Creating many inventions 
changing the world
Don’t die and no one will feel sad

Let the feelings out 
and let them move through you,
you feel better 
Everyone can decide
if they want
to eat 
the Longevity Pills.

Wings of Fire

I enter the world of dragons
Dragons whooshing by 
And chasing one another
Fighting to be the next queen
Some terrifyingly dangerous
and mysterious
Some lazy as a sloth
Then I slip out of the world of dragons
And inside on my bed
Thoughts of the book still floating 
in my head

Sweet dreams

In my dreams, I imagine myself flying 
Over the vast blue oceans
The wind blowing across my wings
Playing catch with the birds in the sky
Gliding to happiness

Scary dreams

A ghost appears in my room at midnight
As scary as a thief
Scraping and jumping on everything
Like a one year old baby
Happily watching invisible TV on our couch
Dangles from my roof and then disappears
Like a magical magician hiding his cards
My family asked everyone except me, “Who made the mess?”
Each of them was sleeping at midnight
The ghost came every night until
I told my family 
That ghost was never seen again

Animal dreams

My puffin, Muffin, and zebra, Febra, came alive while I was 😴 sleeping 
and had a conversation
When I made a sound, 
they quickly wrapped themselves,
got into a sleeping position
and made fake snores.💤

Accepted

Tested, tried, and persevered
But things didn't work out the first time
Not everything always goes your way
There was a lump in my throat

Tested, tried, and persevered
Again the next year
But still things did not go our way
I had to try harder and get smarter
We joined the community
The lump in my throat hurt more

Tested, tried, and persevered
I tried my best
BOOM! 
I was dancing 
and my heart was full of joy
The lump in my throat disappeared

Tested, 
Tried,
and persevered