Poetry, Grades 7 - 9: Third Place

Pandas - Imanuel Bier

 

White and black crawling
Walking and eating bamboo
China’s big beauty

 

            It comes searching
            Searching, searching
            For its treasure
            It stops and sniffs
            Sniffs the air
            It looks up to find nothing
            Nothing but sky and grass on its feet
            Then continues

 

Black as the dark night
White as the sun’s rays
It sits looking and watching every day
With bamboo in hand it will soon
Too soon, go away

 

 


 


Imanuel  (Manny) Bier lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with his mom, dad, older sister, and younger brother. He loves playing soccer, basketball, and golf, biking with his family, Herzl Camp in the summer, and snowboarding and hot chocolate in the winter.  He is a member at Temple of Aaron and is currently studying for his Bar Mitzvah on July 4, 2009.