"Just Don't Touch It"
Brianna
St. John the Baptist School
City of St. Louis, MO
Brianna St. John the Baptist School St. Louis, Missouri "Just Don't Touch It" "Poetry on Their Terms, Winners of The 2013 7GP 7th Grade Poetry Contest" is an event and poetry anthology sponsored by The 7th Grade Poetry Foundation (7GP).
Its glow is as bright as the sun.
It produces a
Black,
Wispy,
Billowing cloud.
You can smell it,
Just don’t touch it.
You can run, but it chases you.
Hot as the desert it burns.
It could be
Minutes,
Hours,
It might go out now,
Just don’t touch it.
Staring into the embers you see
Lady Flame dancing on her stage of wood.
Just don’t touch it.