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Poetry from Wild Tigers

Music I heard loud music in my house in my room in my bed in my blanket in my pillow in my dream. Pop! The music is gone. Everything disappeared It was only a dream. but... the music still plays in my deaf ears.       William Jaramillo Staring As I came walking down the busy street People were passing and staring at me. In my mind I thought I looked bad I thought I smelled bad. Maybe my zipper was opened. Strange day As I came home from the busy street Mother was cooking and staring at me She said to me about the eerie noise. I thought, "Uh-oh." I checked in my pocket pulled out my whistling hearing aid.       William Flores Colorful World The world has people with colorful skins and colorful clothes and colorful homes and colorful families and colorful children and colorful lands and colorful animals and colorful foods and colorful languages It is a colorful world.       Paola Guerro Hearing When I hear the bell ring I go to the phone there's no one there. When I hear the dog barking I think it's my mom calling me.       Arturo Fileto Robots I look at hearing people talking. I cannot hear them. I look at their lips flopping. I cannot understand. Their faces have no expression. They look like robots to me.       Arturo Fileto Frog? Am I a frog? Or am I a toad? Of a princess comes along and if she kisses me, Poof! I'll be a hard of hearing prince.       Arturo Fileto

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