March 16th

Take a movie from Disney and write a poem about it describing how you see it while watching it.

Chenoa Jackson

-Toy Story 3

I watched many of them

I still do

I love every moment

They fill me with happiness

Childlike happiness

I have grown up with the characters

I have watched them grow as characters

They are a part of me

Of my life

One movie series stands out

The most to me

Toy Story

I have known them

Woody and Buzz

My entire life

They have always been there

Then the third movie came out

I was excited to see them again

Andy was going off to college

Just like my brother

I watched the movie

my eyes glued to the screen

Then the end comes

Andy gives his toys away

He looks back before driving away

And I start crying

Andy and his toys have always been together

The movies revolve around their friendship

Now he is grown up

His toys start a new life

Every time I watch it

I am still moved by the ending

I try to hold back

but water slips out my eyes

It still touches me

the same way it did

when I first watched it

Yet I love the movie

I watch it again

and again

and again

I cry again

and again

and again

I love watching my old friends

on the magic box

Even though I cry

I love watching their story

because we have been friends

For a long time

and nothing is going to change that.

Michaela Hutchinson:

It was a Sunday afternoon in the middle of December, two weeks after its release. We’d been meaning to see it earlier, but just hadn’t had the time. That day was our first opportunity. It wasn’t quite yet the spectacle that it ended up as. And so we went in knowing nothing more than what the trailers told us. Which had, at least for me, given away nothing.

As soon as the Disney logo appeared on the screen and the first song started playing I knew I was a goner. The opening song was amazing. If the rest of the movie was at least half as good as it was I knew I’d have a new favorite on my hands. And oh was I right. Each song brought me deeper and deeper into my love for the movie. It was funny and cute and sad and so so good(in the sense of what it had to say). I teared up, laughed, and even gasped out loud. It was a refreshing movie experience, just a little unconventional and entirely wonderful.

Toward the end that first song played again, and it had the same melting effect on me that was happening on screen. What a way to bring it all back together. I spent the final minutes of the movie with a smile on my face and a lightness in my heart. The wonder of Disney magic, it’d been a while since I’d felt it last.

Danielle Baxter

Ursula

Attempting to fit into the picture perfect structure

The curve of your waist taken away

Perceived as the villain

Forced to give into a culture that demands perfection

Wasn’t it bad enough they made you a witch

Making children tremble with thunder of your laugh

You were cut down

Broken into bite sized pieces

Defeated

Little Mermaid

Sydney

She’s no damsel,

soot stained cheeks,

like a painted warrior.

Every girls dream,

classic rags to riches,

flats to glass slippers.

Too many long days in an apron,

working the day and night away,

feeling trapped in a empty room.

A girl wishing for a better life,

she was just like me,

only time separates us.

• Cinderella

Jake Davenport

A family of strength and loyalty

Taken

Deceitful and disloyal relatives

He once owned everything the light touched

now its cloaked in darkness

Howls and crying laughter fill his nightmares

A father taken too soon

I see deep family issues

A youngin’ ready to avenge

Stuck on his mind like a Scar

Hamlet and this has taught me to never trust my uncle

They have his lover too?

You can never take a mans family AND women

you choose

He doesn’t have many friends, but his close few are

LOYAL

Something he has has many tribulations with

But he waits to grow into his own

Strong and magnificent

A true story of triumph

-Lion King