Love stories - short and sweet

Recently, students in the Monroe-Woodbury Middle School were asked to write about love with only these conditions: Keep the story or poem “short and sweet.”

Here are two of those “short and sweet” love poems by eighth graders Jillian Calub and Donna Medvedeva, which are shared with The Photo News by Gina Dudgeon, the assistant principal at the Monroe-Woodbury Middle School:

Simply Love

By Donna Medvedeva

Love is more than a thing

Sung by birds in the Spring

Love is more than some flowers

Grown by the sunny warm hours

Love could be passed as art,

Or, a song deep in your heart

A deep, loving embrace,

A kiss to the side of the face,

A feeling that makes your heart soar,

A desire for something more,

A longing for someone you’ve seen,

Outside, or perhaps on a screen.,

A feeling that one cannot withstand,

An itch for a hand in a hand,

A feeling of subtle, warm, care,

A silky, soft lock of hair,

A silhouette of a smile,

Stored in your mind all the while,

Without it, life would seem bleak,

Let it help you and cause you to speak,

A pair of beautiful eyes,

A mirror of blue, soaring skies,

Some chocolates so sugary sweet,

A person you are waiting to meet,

United, dearly at last,

Because of the love that has passed.

The Best Love of All

By Jillian Calub

I don’t understand

Why they’re always together

Hand in hand

Like birds of a feather

I just can not see

How they’re able to fly

A young lad or lady

Going so high

I went out to find it

That feeling I’d seen

I quickly quit

I’m only a teen

But later I learned

That though I am small

I still have earned

The best love of all

The love from best friends

The love from my family

That love never ends

And let’s me live happily.