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=**__David McCord__ ** =

 Two Poems by David McCord, **Every Time I Climb a Tree**

 "Every time I climb a tree  Every time I climb a tree  Every time I climb a tree  I scrape a leg  Or skin a knee  And every time I climb a tree  I find some ants  Or dodge a bee  And get the ants  All over me  "And every time I climb a tree  Where have you been? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> They say to me <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> But don't they know that I am free <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> Every time I climb a tree? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> I like it best <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> To spot a nest <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> That has an egg <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> Or maybe three <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> "And then I skin <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> The other knee <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> But every time I climb a tree <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> I see a lot of things to see <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> Swallows, rooftops and TV <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> And all the fields and farms there be <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> Every time I climb a tree <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> Thought climbing may be good for ants <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> It isn't awfully good for pants <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> But still it's pretty good for me <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> Every time I climb a tree"

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">**This Is My Rock**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">"This is my rock, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> And here I run <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> To steal the secret of the sun; <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">"This is my rock, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> And here come I <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> Before the night has swept the sky; <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">"This is my rock, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> This is the place <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> I meet the evening face to face." <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> David McCord uses his style and influences to help him write poems. By looking at a poem written by David McCord you can tell he likes children, being outside and having fun. You can tell this by the theme's of his poems (EX. Every Time I Climb a Tree), he like to make silly and fun poems that kids will like. In David McCord poems a particular theme he addresses in his embody to a curosity about the every day things. David McCoords poetry style is free verse, when he writes poems he has no rules, he dosen't worry about rules he writes what he see's. In conclustion David McCord uses his styles and influnces to help him write poems.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> Biography <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">David McCord was born November 15, 1897. When he was young he lived in the east, in the east. In Long Island NY, and Princeton, NJ. Spending summers in the Poconos. David moved to Oregon when he was about twelve years old. In middle school and high school David excelled in his classes. After high school he moved to Boston, Massachusetts to go to college at Harvard University, one of the top schools in America. In college he helped with fundrasing and giving extraordinary grace and style to fundraising. David earned his master’s degree in 1922. In 1956 was awarded Harvard's first honorary doctorate of humane letters. In publishing many of his poems over the years being a poet he was awarded for many of his poems and achievements. Some awards were the Golden Rose Award, the 1961 National Institute of Arts and Letters Grant. Also in 1977, the first national award of <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">Excellence in Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English. Another award was the Benjamin Franklin Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts in London, England. Sadly at age 99 years old David McCord died April 13, 1997.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> __<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Summer __ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by: Lucy Acuna Ice cream trucks <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> nice warm sun <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> fun <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> fun <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> fun

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Little kids run around <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> loving life <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> school’s over <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Time to be alive

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Hot Weather <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> couldn’t be better

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Everyone escapes to the beach <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> waves crashing <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> sand through toes.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Summer is <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> fun <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> exciting <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> paradise <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> relaxing

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;">__ Day Light Saving's __ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> By Alex Farrohi

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> The sun stays up one hour later <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> While the moon likes to sleep in <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> And the stars they can't raise without the moons gaze upon there eyes

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> But I have to lose an hour of sleep <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> I have have to wake up week with lack of sleep <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> glum and tired trying to get out of bed

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> The moon plays with the stars <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> well I drag my self into the car <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> trying to start the day

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> And the clocks they go <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> tick <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> tock <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> tick <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> tock to the new time <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: medium;"> just to let it set in