The following are poems written and narrated by a few of the English I students at Pinellas Park High School. As caterpillar to butterfly So are Teenagers to Adults

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The following are poems written and narrated by a
few of the English I students at Pinellas Park
High School.As caterpillar to butterflySo are
Teenagers to Adults
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C to B as T to A

• The caterpillar eats and grows
• As teens make and learn their mistakes
• The caterpillar makes itself a chrysalis
• As teens drift away from home
• Caterpillar thrust its way to a new life as a
  butterfly
• As teens become adults and have new beginnings
• by Christina Namechand and Tabitha Steward

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My Little Dear

• Angry at life, full of fear
• Small little butterfly, come to me
• Im thinking of you, my little dear
• My heart adores your size of heart
• Come to my hand, you will feel all-right
• Never will I let you go, keep your wings at
  sight.
• By Aia Islamova and Varsha Rawana

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My Life

• I feel the light in my eyes
• My life is becoming one
• Growing so big
• Becoming so strong
• Finding my insides
• My life has just begun.
• by Richard Crane

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HI !

• Boom, Kabaam, I saw it break free,
• It looked more beautiful that I thought it would
  be.
• Boo-hoo-hoo as I cried through,
• I cried louder and louder until I turned blue.
• So butterfly is what they call you
• They call me the incredible Mr. Vue.
• As life goes by,
• Everyone tends to stop saying hi!
• I wonder if its the same with butterflies?
• by Jeremy Vue and Steven Pham

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Stages

• From a womb to a child
• From a caterpillar to a cocoon
• From a child to an adult
• From a cocoon to a butterfly
• These are the stages
• Of a butterfly and a teenager
• by Kevin Ledlie and Ashley Ramsey

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Metamorphosis

• I start young, a 12-legged creature,
• and of course, they notice my features.
• I dont like the way that I look,
• so Im going to flip like a book.
• I go into a little cocoon,
• and I dont want to leave.
• Very soon Im finally done,
• as time flew by
• I have become a beautiful butterfly.
• by Cody Arnold and Hogan Ramos

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Breaking Free

• Breaking free like a butterfly
• Hearing the crackling as you go
• Using your power to get out
• Getting smarter as you grow
• Be free and never let go
• You still have the power to know
• by Ashley Millard and Tracy Coward

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Energy of Breaking Free

• Tick Tock, Tick Tock
• Its almost time for me to enter the world.
• Zip, Zip, Zip I can hear it now
• Lifes long cocoon is breaking apart
• Flash, Flash life goes by
• Its the teenage memories we kiss goodbye.
• by Elijah Bowling

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CHANGES

• Change
• Life changes like gears in automobiles
• Change is good
• Change is for the better
• For the good you can form
• Into someone good
• Change is good
• though it can be bad
• Not enough experience
• and life can be a drag

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• Change can form like a worm in a cocoon
• when your fully grown you can
• Look and feel good
• So when you develop to your best
• you can be on your own
• Away from the rest
• When you look at life, it will remind you
• the more good you do the better the change
• And release you like the butterfly from the
  cocoon.
• by Bernard Ramirez

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New Found Beauty

• Start so simple,
• start carefree.
• Full of wonder,
• full of glee.
• Crawling around
• this confusing world.
• Some are boys,
• some are girls.
• Growing stronger,
• learning more.

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• Find new things,
• new things will bore.
• Spend dark times,
• locked inside.
• Searching for something,
• in themselves to hide.
• Still so lost,
• inside their minds.
• Inside their cocoons,
• so dark, so kind.
• Breaking free,
• a new found self.
• A new found beauty,
• inside ourself.
• by
  Erica Benware

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Using Your Wings

• Youthful fun, laughter and joys
• Butterfly wings, flowers and toys
• Teenagers sprout wings of freedom
• Pupa change crawling to flying
• Adulthood brings grown up things
• Butterfly wings fly as they keep on trying.
• by
  Mickey Hunter

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A World Where -

• My cocoon was home for many years.
• A home where my parents nurtured and fed me.
• A home where I had no financial responsibilities.
• Now crack, crack, crack.
• The time has come.
• I am emerging from the cocoon from which I was
  raised and grown.
• Off on my own to another place.
• I sit and dry my wings off.
• I tear and say good-bye to my parents.

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• Now I say hello to a brand new world.
• A world where I find my own place to live.
• A world where I buy my own food.
• A world where I pay my own bills.
• A world where I fly away from my parents and into
  my own life.
• I am a butterfly broken free from its cocoon.
• Im stepping out in a world unknown.
• Im experiencing life itself.
• by Melissa
  Cook

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Butterflies and Teenagers

• The two hearts beat as one
• If I dont break free I will be done
• Leaving home is a big one for me
• But I wouldnt want anyone I know to see
• Just like leaving a cocoon
• I want to float away in a big balloon
• With all the pain you put me through
• And you dont even have a single clue
• Thats what I would only do
• Just to break free from all of you.
• by
  Kaycee Colen

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Fly, Fly, Fly

• The form of life comes from the teenage soul.
• Love and energy can become a strong impact on
  life
• Dont turn around when you think its rough keep
  going
• Growing is stepping into a bigger world
• Life is like a butterfly coming out of its cocoon
  to explore the world.

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• Energy is from the sun, which brings us into
  life.
• A young heart grows into a wonderful soul.
• 100 years later, you can be a new
• Butterfly out of its cocoon
• To become free of energy and power
• is to be a butterfly and fly away.
• Be free
• and fly, fly, fly .. away.
• by Felicia

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Mystery

• Life is a mystery that nobody knows how to solve
  it.
• But like butterflies and teenagers we both want
  to experience it.
• We both go through different changes in life.
• Such as growing up finding love and to start a
  new better life.
• The difference in the inside is not much, just if
  you look at the physical from a teenager to a
  beautiful butterfly things would change.
• Butterflies and teenagers share one common thing
• that I called the circle of life.
• by
  Genesis Quintana

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Butterflies and Teenagers II

• We are both curious to look whats around us.
• Butterflies and teenagers cant help their
  curiosity.
• Trying new things to improve their lives.
• Butterflies and teenagers like to socialize.
• Butterflies unlikely teenagers have a minimum
  life limit.
• We teenagers face life changes more than
  butterflies do.
• by Tom Horne

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Caterpillar to Butterfly as- Teen to Adult

• Caterpillars are turning into butterflies
• As teens are turning into adults
• Too big to fit in a cocoon
• Too large for a single teen room
• Trying to break free to ride with the wind
• As teens are struggling to find their special
  within
• The burst of motion breaks them free
• As teens use momentum for lifelong dreams.
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  by Kayla Canfield

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Thank you!

• Thanks to all the Extra students who helped
  to finish the narration for the poems of The
  Butterflies and the Teenagers!