Who wrote this?! (poet, student, or Mr. Laurie?)

School days, old friends, they fade but remain

Like echoes that rise with the whisper of rain

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• RMHS Filmmaking student

• Mr. Laurie

We're awake

at the lake

Please don't take

the cake away

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• RMHS Filmmaking student

• Mr. Laurie

The handles are wrapped in blue tape,

and parts of the gray cushions are flecking off.

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• RMHS Filmmaking student

• Mr. Laurie

Within your magical hair, I smell the air.

I think about the growth and opportunities we will share.

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• RMHS Filmmaking student

• Mr. Laurie

He is always a joy

The way he tells a story

We call him papa

Because he's always gotcha

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• RMHS Filmmaking Student

• Mr. Laurie

I tried to explain what I saw.

It’s your imagination, said my father.

The fish swam like brilliant magicians

toward the window. Then they were gone.

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• RMHS Filmmaking student

• Mr. Laurie

a branch

left out

to dry in the sun

dust and pine

sense of smell

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• RMHS Filmmaking student

• Mr. Laurie

I am what people think I am

Mom thinks I'm one thing

Friends think I'm another

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• RMHS Filmmaking student

• Mr. Laurie

The smell of the air at night feels like the day has finally stopped strangling me and I get to breathe for the first time in the day.

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• RMHS Filmmaking student

• Mr. Laurie

you are singing the door open for us

and through it streams the flood of the people

the feet of the flood of the people burn the world as they run

• published poet

• RMHS Filmmaking student

• Mr. Laurie