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When I was 8 years old, my family went on a summer vacation to a small town about an hour north of New York City called Central Valley.
One night we went downtown for ice cream at the drugstore and were surprised to find the streets empty. When we walked to the firehouse, we saw the dispatcher sitting outside on a chair that was leaning against the building.
“Where is everyone?” I asked.
“Over at the Joneses,” he replied, indicating a house with a tilt of his head. “They just got one of them new television sets. Whole town’s watching Milton Berle.”
The idea of an empty town sparked my imagination, so I wrote an article about it and submitted it to the community newspaper.
How thrilled I was when I saw the story appeared on the front page!
Imagine, then, how thrilled I am years later to be able to make it possible for other students to be published. I hope you enjoy seeing your words (and art) in print as much as I did. And still do.
— LEAH S. DUNAIEF
A message from the publisher
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A. Craig Purcell ~ Anthony W. Mercep ~ Timothy B. GlynnJacqueline A. Fink ~ Scott MacLagan ~ Martin F. Simon, of Counsel
“Congratulations On Your Creativity”North Country Road, Post Office Box 712, Stony Brook, New York 11790 • 631.751.5757
Glynn Mercep and Purcell, LLP
Lawyers
By MELoDy WANgW.S. MoUNt ELEMENtAry ScHooL
grADE 5
Special 2016 pullout section
LighthousesBy JAck ZAZZENA
NASSAkEAg ELEMENtAry ScHooLgrADE 4
If you’re not from New York, you don’t know the lighthouse
The tall massive building towering above you 180 steps to the top.
Seeing out to sea from the very top.
Wind blowing in your face.
If you’re not from New York, you don’t know the lighthouse.
Summer is hereBy DANIELLE PoLLINA
NASSAkEAg ELEMENtAry ScHooLgrADE 4
Warm summer days and the hot burning sunSoft cozy sand always tickling my feetThrowing a ball then catching another
Dashing into the refreshing pool to cool offRiding my bike in the neighborhood
Breathing in the fresh breezy airTaking another bite of my ice cream
Wishing I could have summer all year
By EMMA MANNINoWArD MELvILLE HIgH ScHooL
grADE 11
By cHrIStIAN o’BrIENWArD MELvILLE HIgH ScHooL
grADE 11
By kELLy ScALogNAW.S. MoUNt ELEMENtAry ScHooL
grADE 5
By cAtHErINE BEtZWArD MELvILLE HIgH ScHooL
grADE 10
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A. Craig Purcell ~ Anthony W. Mercep ~ Timothy B. GlynnJacqueline A. Fink ~ Scott MacLagan ~ Martin F. Simon, of Counsel
“Congratulations On Your Creativity”North Country Road, Post Office Box 712, Stony Brook, New York 11790 • 631.751.5757
Glynn Mercep and Purcell, LLP
Lawyers
By BELLA AyErWArD MELvILLE HIgH ScHooL
grADE 11
Am I Rama?By rAMA LAPIDUS
P.J. gELINAS Jr. HIgH ScHooLgrADE 8
My name is RamaBut I do not always feel as though
I am Rama
Rama means mighty Rama means of high authority
Rama is strong
If I was a boy I would have been RamBut I don’t like that because it
seems like the animal
RamMaybe Rama is like a ram
As strong as one
I am the strength of soilSturdy at first lookBut secretly fragile
I am the teeth of a roaring lionRestless and untamed
Am I strong? Am I worthy of my own name?
I think my parents named me with expectationsAnd now, those unspoken dreams,
they follow me around
My mother told me that she remembers when
I was littleThe way I looked at my newborn sister
With bright, loving eyes
Maybe at timesRama is gentle
Delicate and lovingIs that me?
It’s strange to look inside yourselfTo wonder how the world sees you
How can one truly analyze their own values and flaws?
I am the curtain of held back wordsHidden secrets
Is my voice of any worth?
Emotion Rainbow By MEgHAN MILLEr
NASSAkEAg ELEMENtAry ScHooLgrADE 6
Most people think of red as an angry colorI think of embarrassment
The rosy red your face turns when you feel uneasy
Orange is two facedIt could be soft like a sunset
Or bold like a neon glow stickYellow is a mellow color
Like the sun when it awakens from its past sleep
Green is softLike the grass of a freshly mowed lawn on
a Summer dayBlue is sad
Like tears illuminated by dim lightIndigo like lilacs in a fieldSwaying in a light breeze
Violet like grapesAt a summer picnicOh you never know
What color you Will be tomorrow
in a nameBy MADELINE IMMErMAN
P.J. gELINAS Jr. HIgH ScHooLgrADE 8
who?and what? is to be magnificent?
they say i am powerful, and they say i am enlightened
what a wise little girl they say
mary magdalene, cleaned and purebut mary, mary, how contrary you are
for from the elevated towers, where my “wis-dom” has been confined
i have waited
waiting until someone may realizethat magical magnificence
is unreal
madeline’s mandalasmandalas drawn out on the floor
in a room where walls and ceilingsare inspired by only the night sky
mandals constructed of pebbles andsatin scraps
my pebbles, my stones may seem to be nothingagainst their bigger, stronger boulders.
but they’re wrong
my pebbles are powerfuljust like the me i am supposed to be
By MADDIE MAStrIANoWArD MELvILLE HIgH ScHooL
grADE 10
By SyDNEy gErLEW.S. MoUNt ELEMENtAry ScHooL
grADE 3
Where I’m From By JUStIN MArtELL
NASSAkEAg ELEMENtAry ScHooLgrADE 6
I’m from thecutting board of mygrandma’s kitchen
I’m from thefreshly cut grass
of a damp lacrosse fieldI’m from a
neighborhood of darksilent streets at night
I’m from the majestic artwork
hanging on the wallI’m from the
squeaky glass floor of abasketball court
I’m from Long IslandNew York
AirBy SHANE FUcHS
NASSAkEAg ELEMENtAry ScHooLgrADE 4
The moist airAfter the summer
RainFlowers and grass
Are bloomingFeel the wet grasson your bare feet
Sliding around on the grassA rainbow shining in the sky
A happy day has comeAfter all
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A. Craig Purcell ~ Anthony W. Mercep ~ Timothy B. GlynnJacqueline A. Fink ~ Scott MacLagan ~ Martin F. Simon, of Counsel
“Congratulations On Your Creativity”North Country Road, Post Office Box 712, Stony Brook, New York 11790 • 631.751.5757
Glynn Mercep and Purcell, LLP
Lawyers
By LILA DABroWSkIW.S. MoUNt ELEMENtAry ScHooL
grADE 5
Night By EMILy grEEk
NASSAkEAg ELEMENtAry ScHooLgrADE 6
Cool airSky black like slick oil
But stars light up like howflashlights lead your way
So many things you can do at night Like
SwimmingManhunt with your friends
Camping under the glistening starsFireflies come out to dance while
They light up the nightThe moon comes out
BrightBig
WhiteGuides the stars
And if you’re lucky you canSee a meteor shower
And watch them fly throughThe oily sky
All until it’s...Bright
WHAT TO LIVE FORBy FErNANDA ArévALo
WArD MELvILLE HIgH ScHooLgrADE 11
We have only one life But at times we become lost.
We get lured into living- not for ourselves But for those around us.
Though we may ask what life is,It’s a question that cannot be answered.
Life is what you say it is—It is not perfect.
It is not glorious.We do not know how much time we will get,
And we do not know what will come our way.What we do know is that we are here.
Because we live not for the futureBut for this moment in time.Tomorrow is not guaranteed
So live today: For beauty. For love. For life.
AWAYBy ANDI SAUEr
WArD MELvILLE HIgH ScHooLgrADE 10
Heavy shoes treadLeaves don’t
crinkle and pop
Mind ambles hopelesslyto realms that life
forgot.Shoved in shadows, cobweb
blankets cover ever-bleaker grin under dust on wooden shelves
where life tossed her only one.In empty air,
in empty spacefantasy
seems gruesomeKissing days, andlaughing nights
Spaghetti mouth, andbutterfly eyes
in the warm hug of a fire, ‘tilthe ashes turned to dust
and blewaway.
Soccer Goal By PAUL toMMoLINo
NASSAkEAg ELEMENtAry ScHooLgrADE 6
I place the ball on the hillI back up
ReadyI lift my arm
the goalie’s eyesburn holes in my head
I’m ready;I jog
SlowlyWalk
Now Run Shot
I rocketThe ball
To the top postCurve
Just under the crossbarGOAL
By JoSEPH SPAccArELLIWArD MELvILLE HIgH ScHooL
grADE 10
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A. Craig Purcell ~ Anthony W. Mercep ~ Timothy B. GlynnJacqueline A. Fink ~ Scott MacLagan ~ Martin F. Simon, of Counsel
“Congratulations On Your Creativity”North Country Road, Post Office Box 712, Stony Brook, New York 11790 • 631.751.5757
Glynn Mercep and Purcell, LLP
Lawyers
I AM NOT MY iPHONE
By ALLISoN DANAWArD MELvILLE HIgH ScHooL
grADE 11
I am not my iPhone.People of older times seem to fear that
since I use technology,I will become technology-
faceless, steely,limited only in areas of feeling, caring.I am in each careful message of com-
fortor derision
typed deftly on fingers thatfly against their home.
I sympathize with characters that Iwatch on a tiny screenthat mimics my world,
but greater.I improve my knowledge,
researching facts so unnecessary thatI wouldn’t be bothered to learn them
unless theinformation was right there to be found
just beyond a few taps with relaxed thumbs.
Did you know thatthe Pacific is 35,797 feet deep?
I couldn’t exactly have gone andfound that out for myself
(I don’t have that many feet — do you?)but I could find it
in my phone that extends the nature I can’t find outside
to wherever I need it to be. There are fears that are spewed out like
insults,of a time led by technology instead of
experience.I ask the fearful to remember that
I am not my iPhoneand that even if I was,
why would that be so bad?
By StEvEN ZHAoWArD MELvILLE HIgH ScHooL
grADE 12
SUMMER LIGHT SHINES ANEW
By yoAv JAcoBWArD MELvILLE HIgH ScHooL
grADE 12
Memories of sun and moon in my mindAll across the land we trekked and sang.Now each moment of time is so unkind,
We wait to return like a boomerang
How thee danced and ran free from thyselfGrowth of spirit and of soul and of love.Secrets of life now kept within myselfForever remembered in heavens above
The cold approaches and days shrink to noneOnly thoughts keep the warmth of summer
daysHow hard it is to resist the sun
I am left lost deep within my mental haze
Look now, a light, it fills my horizonPerhaps this life has only yet begun.
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A. Craig Purcell ~ Anthony W. Mercep ~ Timothy B. GlynnJacqueline A. Fink ~ Scott MacLagan ~ Martin F. Simon, of Counsel
“Congratulations On Your Creativity”North Country Road, Post Office Box 712, Stony Brook, New York 11790 • 631.751.5757
Glynn Mercep and Purcell, LLP
Lawyers
Lego FriendsBy trINIty vEgA
W.S. MoUNt ELEMENtAry ScHooLgrADE 2
On a warm sunny day in Stony Brook, Trinity was at the barn.
They were getting ready for a horse competition.All of Trinity’s friends came to visit her
at the barn.Trinity was feeling sick and had a fever.
She knew she was not feeling good enough to enter the competition.
A person came along and asked if they could enter the competition for Trinity.
Trinity said sure.She knew this person had horses.
She was happy someone cared about her and wanted to help her.
The competition went on.The person won a trophy for Trinity.
It was a good day at the barn.
Didn’t see your submission?
If your submission did not appear in Pens and Pencils, look for it in the Kids’ Times corner in an upcoming edition of the Arts and Lifestyles section of The Village Times Herald.
By WILLIAM yAoW.S. MoUNt ELEMENtAry ScHooL
grADE 5
By JULIA coLEttI
WArD MELvILLE HIgH ScHooL
grADE 11