Celebration of Poetry | Two Raccoons

Featuring a finalist in the One Book One Community Student Poetry Contest. Two Raccoons co-authored by Meg Morningstar and Nick Longo 7th grade students at Ingomar Middle School.

Two Raccoons

It was / It was

A Perfect

My first

Day for thieving / Day for thieving

I struggled over the

extremely tall fence

I effortlessly climbed up

the tree

And / And

easily / Finally

made it over / Made it over

I glided with ease for it

was only my billionth

time

I tripped over a rock and

fell into a puddle on my

endless journey to the deck

What the heck?! / What the heck?!

Who are you?

What are you?

What's that supposed to / What's that supposed to

mean? / mean?

What do you think

you're doing here! This is

obviously my trash can

I'm new to this part of the

woods and I'm dying for a

bite to eat

Well I guess / Well I guess

I should go

You can stay

Really? You mean it that

way?

Of course I'll even show

you the ropes

The ropes? What are

ropes? Are they going to

hurt me?

Ha! no I meant I'll show

you what to do

Just stick with me and

You'll / I'll

learn a lot / learn a lot

Now follow me and

We can be a team! / We can be a team!