Kids join in with their pens and voices
By Anna Cummins on June 11, 2010
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Anyone who's feeling down in the dumps about our planetary prospects should spend more time with kids. This morning, we finished up our 25th school visit in 6 months, visiting over 5,000 students around Los Angeles. These kids "get it", especially when they learn about how marine animals are harmed by plastic trash.
Earlier this week we met a remarkable young 9 year old from La Ballona Elementary - Devin Newman, who is clearly an emerging poet. She whipped out 2 poems for us during our visit, printed them on the spot, and handed them to us as we walked out. These are the kinds of moments that keep us going....thank you Devin! We'll be keeping tabs on this future leader. Here are 2 of her many, many poems - we have a feeling there are more to come!
OUR PLANET EARTH HELP OUR PLANET!
If we work together, What I'm saying
And don’t make a fuss. Is not fantastic
We’ll make Earth healthy, Fish in the ocean
And she’ll protect us. Are eating plastic!
Now we bring our own bags, Trash and garbage in the sea
And we recycle our waste. Why couldn't all of this
We were sticking together, Have happened to me?
Like bricks on paste. I will ask all of you
We save energy, How you would've felt
And we do the three R’s. In an arctic that's
And we take bikes to school, Beginning to melt
Instead of driving in cars. Lots and lots of angry mobs
Don’t turn up the heat, Are swarming
You know you can do better. Because of the cause of global warming
So grab a blanket,
Or wear a sweater.
It is causing,
A lot of commotion.
When trash and plastic,
Is in the ocean.
- Devin Newman, age 9
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