Earth, sun, sky, and sea
 Spin,  rise,  flash, breathe

The quiet breeze
The soft warm rain
The  flash of light
The hurricane
The rumbling hills
The lava flow
The crashing waves
That come and go
The calm the silence
In the storm
The sunny day
So bright and warm
The winter airs
The frost, the chill
The quiet breeze
The peace be still
 
Earth, sun, sky, and sea
 Spin,  rise,  flash, breathe

I give you light
I give you rain
I give the stars
I give you change
I call the children
out to play
Until the night
takes over day
I am earth,
sun, sky and sea
Perfectly designed to be
A place where life
can grow and breathe
Where humankind
makes history

Earth, sun, sky, and sea
 Spin,  rise,  flash, breathe

Library Lane
​By Sarah Janisse Brown -
I had something more valuable
Than a university degree
I had a wise librarian
And a local library
And locked up in my spirit
Curiosity untamed
My  mother set me free from school
And I walked down Library Lane

There were bookshelves to the ceiling
And a million mysteries
The stories of 10,000 lands
Now opened up to me
And I found my place in science 
And I sailed though history
And the wise librarian smiled
As she shared a book with me.

What do you want to learn now child?
What do you want to be?
The pages are the treasure troves
And this card is the key.
So I filled my sack with freedom
And a dozen new best friends
I savored every story
I wished each one would never end

I read my way through worlds
That I never knew could be.
I discovered whole new cures
and I was rescued from the sea.
I pitched my tent on mountain tops
And I learned to watch the stars
I paged through Egypt's Secrets
And I traveled wide and far.

And I because a fighter, 
a writer and a queen
I discovered galaxies
That had yet to be seen
Old friends, just passed me by
In a yellow bus each day the same
With my pack of books, I waved goodbye
And I turned to walk down Library Lane