Long Canyon 4/13/96

Long, long ago

Someone named it

Long Canyon

It was made long

long ago

And called Long 

Canyon

Long Canyon

                                        by Melanie (age 10)

Wilson Mountain South 4/6/96

As long as it looks

As steep as it is

We will make it

We will climb it

It will no longer

be dreaded

Because we made

it
We climbed,

Almost!

                                        by Melanie (age 10)

Beaver Creek 1/28/96

Sitting high

Upon this gentle rock

I dream of the river

Rising up

It swallows me up

And pushes me along

It subsides

I find myself

In a new world

A world of water

I am a ship

In a raging storm

My ship starts to sink

I am dying

I wake up

I find my self

Covered in water

Sitting on the used to be

High gentle rock

                                        by Melanie (age 10)

Grandview, Grand Canyon w Barbara M. Jan. 13, 96

The Spaniards could not

believe that it was deep

They thought of the

river as just a little

creek

The Indians told

them to get down

was a great fall

But they just thought

they we looking

at a big thing small

The Indians told them

to get down could

take days

They tried and fell

into a haze

The Indians told them

they learned the

hard way

But they just

said they'd be 

be back another

day

                                        by Melanie (age 10)