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\nFrony 6over by Alicia Moors aikEd Borál  \n# If a Water Buffalo Could Sing\n\nPoetry of the Marshby West Rise Junior School  \nEdited by Ed Boxall  \n# If a Water Buffalo Could Sing\n\nIf a water buffalo could sing  \nIts voice would sound deeply dark and dullGlooming,gusty and graceful  \nlts volume would bellowThe Sound would echoAnd runawayTo the pondsAcross the land  \nPast reed warblersOwls,ducks and swans  \nIt would swish through the reedsMake ripples on the waterIt would cross the roads  \nUntil its voice would be drowned out byCars,helicopters,planes,And all the noise of mankind.  \nEbony FillinghamSidney SayersGeorgia MatthewsJade Meredith SullivanMillie AdamsHarry VenourJack Murphy  \nI close my eyes  \nAnd think about the marshWhen I open themsee a blue sky  \nRebecca Nicholls  \nThe Marsh  \nThe twilight is movingAnd fading away.  \nI can smell the freshly cut grass  \nAs I look above  \nColourful birds swoopAnd glideIn the mid air.  \nAnd the great buffalos charge around the fieldLike children playing a game of tag.  \nI can hear reeds rustling gently from side to sideAs the breeze whistlesAcross the emerald green lake.  \nHalima Dob  \nI am the Marsh  \nI've got sunset on my handsReeds blowing in my earsWind whistling in my head.  \nMy teeth are bramble pricklesMy ears are autumn leavesBuffalo walk along my arms.  \nMy hair is the branchesOf the weeping willow treeMy blood is the water flowing,  \nAlong the streams  \nAnd the trunks and the branchesMy bones are the house of the water buffalo.  \nHayley DaveyTamzin Farrell Bramley  \n# Bumpy RideA Landrover ride on the marsh\n\nSick rideBumpy rideBut worth itAnd Let me tell you why.  \nWe saw staring statuesTheir endless black eyesGlistening in the sunAnd a white smoke crossSlowly dissolving above our heads  \nSick rideBumpy rideBut worth itAnd Let me tell you why  \nWe heard the snake hiss of the windShiver through the reedsThat mysteriously openedAs if for invisible 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