Miles Latham
Beginning
Submitted by faughnanc on February 27, 2008 - 17:01.Beginning
By Miles Latham
Hartford Memorial Middle School, Grade 8
Was there ever a beginning of time?
Perhaps our universe has existed forever.
Maybe the concept of time as we know it is eternal,
Going on ceaselessly,
With no end in sight:
From the past and into the future.
The present may be a barely perceptual moment
On the path of perpetuity.
Evidence
Submitted by faughnanc on January 15, 2008 - 14:47.Evidence
By Miles Latham
Hartford Memorial Middle School, Grade 8
Evidence is a mighty thing.
It can save a convict's life,
And it can put an honest man in jail.
It can solve an ancient crime,
And it can get a poor chap off bail.
But the real mystery
Is not whether evidence has stood the test of time--
But whether time has stood the test of evidence.
The Forest in My Backyard
Submitted by faughnanc on December 13, 2007 - 16:52.The Forest in My Backyard
By Miles Latham
Hartford Memorial Middle School, Grade 8
The meadows dance in the wind.
The pines in the forest groan.
The snow gently glides to earth.
The moon casts white shadows through the trees.
As I continue to write by just the moonlight,
I sense the evening chill.
