By Tiffany Du
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock
the clock goes ticking away.
The room shifts into a wonderland
of inanimate objects alive.
Papers, pencils and pens
talk as they would in a dream.
Blank pages fill themselves with
scribbles, sketches and scumbles.
Then I wake up from my daydream,
and gawk over my progress.
I still have time,
I tell myself
then I read my comics.
Page two, 10, 12
they pass by like a rocket.
A few more minutes
then I’ll stop,
that’s what they all say.
I pick up my pencil
and twirl it a few times,
it turns into a propeller
then hits the ground in moments.
A sigh escapes from my mouth,
my hand too lazy to move
until it grips a new pen
and touches the tip to the paper.
Name
Date
Class
Period
Space skipped
paragraph indent
…and I’ll finish the rest of this poem later.