Although 2020 was a tough year, these amazingly resilient kids inspire hope and positivity. Fourth and fifth grade Minnetonka Writing Club students wrote the following pieces when reflecting on the last year and looking to the future with a bright perspective.
2021 Positivity
by Diya Sajlar
2021 is filled with possibilities
With awareness and vaccines
It will be different from 2020, hooray!
An improvement from what we see today.
By summer’s end
We’ll be able to bend
All Covid measures
And resume our pleasures
We’ll be able to go back to school
And learn everything cool
We can meet up with friends
On all the weekends
There are three different vaccines
That we can get
To banish Covid away
Since it thinks it can stay
2021 is filled with possibilities
It is a new year!
Let’s follow what the experts say
And everything will be okay!
FIND A SPARK
by Carsyn Jewell
The vaccine is finally here
Maybe we’ll say goodbye to the COVID year
I beg that I can see
My very loving family
That lives so far away
I wish on stars every day
Even though I don’t like shots
I want the vaccine lots and lots
Even though life is hard for me
We all need to stand tall like a tree
If we stand tall and help everyone
The COVID time may be done
Life feels quite upside down
I feel like i may drown
In a pool of black and dark
I know we can find a spark
That lifts our whole world up.
Up
Up
Up
When Covid came my life felt dull
I hope to fly like a seagull
Soaring above all the bad
When life feels very sad
The world can have such misery
This time will be in history
Even though life is hard for me
We all need to stand tall like a tree
If we stand tall and help everyone
The COVID time may be done
Life feels quite upside down
I feel like i may drown
In a pool of black and dark
I know we can find a spark
That lifts our whole world up.
Up
Up
Up
STAND TALL
By Tuhina Mattoo
2020 was the Big Bang
that shook the world
2020 was making us feel lonely
and
sad
and
all in
the dark.
But the dawn’s light breaks at the end of the year
and hope has risen
throughout the crowd
and people know that next year will be better.
Maybe 2021 will hold surprises to and fro.
2021 might hold the cure to the virus
or 2021 might not.
The COVID-19 holds a slingshot, and our hopes are a balloon.
But even if our hopes of the vaccine are shot down,
2021 will not let us drown in a pool of sadness.
After 2020 our hearts were broken
And our money was spent on a lottery token.
There wasn’t even enough to buy a doughnut for you.
And we were asking “What should we do?”
But 2021 will be different
As we are going to stand tall
Stand tall,
Stand tall,
Stand tall, America.
Stand tall.
NEW VIEWS
by Delilah Wolter
As you look around,
the sky seems brighter,
people’s worries seem lighter,
with hope for a better year.
We are all happy because the end is near.
This is the 2021 mission with no confusion.
We look around imagining smiles,
without masks for miles.
In your house there is no files,
you can go outside without denials.
Never forget the memories,
with thousands of summaries,
in our hearts.
We will not forget any,
from 2020.
We see new views,
that seem familiar but also like fake news.
We see positivity for miles,
in many different styles.
This brings us to the conclusion,
that this is the 2021 mission with no confusion.
FIND THE LIGHT
by Tess van der Voorn
Shots.
Normally awful
Now all
I can think about.
Things are tough
But we will get through this
For there is always
light at the end of the tunnel
Even though
right now
everything seems
Dark.
Dark.
Dark.
We have to keep going.
The harder we work
the closer we are to the old, new things
Summer picnics
Beach sandcastles
And sunshiney days that
take your worries away.
There is no need to worry, though
We have each other
Isn’t that all we need?
each
other
Even though the world is upside down
When we work together
we maybe
just maybe
can turn it right side up
We have resilience
We won’t let this beat us
2021 will be a better year.
2020 be gone
Because if there’s one thing we can do,
it’s find the light.
Find the light,
America.
Find the light.
POSITIVITY FOR 2021!
by Vedant Chetan
Vibha is a non-profit organization based in the USA that has many fundraiser programs. One of Vibha’s programs is called “Pair to Care”. This program educates underprivileged kids in India.
Even though the pandemic has made it much harder to educate these kids, it has given me an opportunity to mentor these kids remotely. Before the pandemic, Vibha had a shelter that fed and educated around 80 kids. Now, Vibha has to educate these kids virtually using WhatsApp, Zoom, Google Meet, and other videoconferencing platforms.
Vibha is actively working to help these kids with their basic education in unique and innovative ways. This will instill positivity in the phrase “Education for All” for the rest of 2021!
POSITIVITY FOR 2021
by Ainsley Sommers
Hopeful
For a world
With no masks
Scientists and Doctors
Dig for a solution
A solution to this dreadful
Virus
Vaccination
For helpers
And older People
Put hope in others
For futures
Of safety
Futures
Of safety
2021
Brings hope
Like a lantern
In a pitch-black hole
Though 2020
Was a mess
We
Still got through it.
Right now, that is
The most important word.
We
We
We
Together.
