Cricket Magazine Fiction and Non-Fiction Stories for Children and Young Teens

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Nova Macknik-Conde, age 10 Brooklyn, NY

Ode to Natural Beauty

From the canopy of leaves and sunlight overhead, From the wooden pillars holding up the green and gold lace, To the river gurgling, laughing, running underneath.

Ode to Natural Beauty.

From the birds’ nest upon the boughs of the brown tree trunks, From the sun-dyed golden, brown-orange, fiery red leaves falling to earth, To the white-speckled fawn stopping to lap at the ever-flowing

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