(All of these poems and drawings are by students in Jennie Gilrain’s fourth-grade class at Freemansburg Elementary School.)
Swift Poem
by Christian N
Like a Tornado’s Swirling
Almost like a Hurricane’s Curling
Together Forming a Shoe
Around they Flew
Into a Chimney, Pouring
Swifts in the Sky, Soaring
Forming a WindyTornado
An Eruption of Swifts from the Volcano
Out of a Chimney
All Alone, they May Seem Mini
But Together, they Create a Dragon
Carrying themselves like a Wagon
From the Darkhole
Out of a Tunnel of Charcoal
Flying in Circles
Some Fast, Some Slow like Turtles
The Swifts
by Cole S
Black Birds
looking
like Chimney Smoke
A Flow of
Wind
in the Sky
Dark Hole Spiral
spinning
around in circles
Sliding Dragon
swerving
up and down
Pouring
all
into the chimney
Swifts
by Devin K
Flock of birds
swiftly entering
the chimney
acrobats of
the air
agile, fast
swirling
up
and down
into the
chimney
Dance of the Swifts
by Emma H
They are cool
and when they move
it is a dance party
and an awesome
flying
swirling race
they are also fast,
elegant, tornado-like,
extravagant, and
beautiful
they are like paint and we are the artist
sometimes you need to wipe the paint away
and start something BETTER
Chimney Swifts
by Jayben G
Chimney dragons
Thousands
Swirling sliding pouring
Thousands
Pouring
Feathers
Swirling sky
Sliding smoke
Around and around
Into the chimney
Chimney Swifts,
by Jonathan O
Swirling tornado
pouring
inside a chimney
feathers are
nice
just like the sky
Black and brown
And white
Feathers pouring
Fast round and
Round
Swirling tornado
Swifts
by Julian M
Up down
flying around
Like a tornado
in the sky not ground
Working together
as all can see
Working together
like mom and me
It looked like they were
making a circle
They all looked
like a dark purple
Chimney Swifts
by Laila S
Oh Chimney Swifts
Sometimes you go in circles
It almost looks like you are making a tornado
You guys always go in a group.
Oh Chimney Swifts
You make my heart shine
You look so beautiful
And you block the sun from my eyes
Oh Chimney Swifts
You grip so hard and
you try not to fall
Inside the chimneys
Oh Chimney Swifts
That is why you are called Chimney Swifts
You guys nest in our chimneys
You fly like an eagle in the sky
Oh Chimney Swifts
Your feathers are grayish black
Your eggs are so tiny
Your babys can not see yet
Oh Chimney Swifts
You are so cute
I want to hold you in my hands
But I can’t so I will hold you in my heart
Oh Chimney Swifts
I love you so much
You are safe now
Thank the the City Council
Chimney Swifts
by Lanaisja S
Pouring
Air
All Around
Sky
Is Blue
All Around
Smoke
Is Foggy
Looping
Different
Colors
Swirling
Thousand
Swifts
All Around
Pulled By
Wind
All Around
Rainbow
Rats
Looping
Whirlpool
Of Swifts
Swirling
No Harm
by Laylah D
I like the birds
They mean no harm
Can we help them?
They’re brown animals
Big wings
Kind of like bats
Face like eagle’s
Wings longer than their tail
Dark black wings
Lighter, lighter
Lighter
White
Tchee, tchee, tcheee
Like a thousand going
into the chimney
Grab stick by stick
By stick to make a nest
For the babies
They do everything in the air
They drink, they eat
They play
The Bird Eaters
by Mariyah G
They fly in the air
eat little insects in the sky
can’t land on the floor because
They’ll get stuck
can’t hang on branches cause
They’ll fall off
They fly in the air
make nests in the chimney
to lay their eggs
eat the insects in the sky
like mosquitos so
They don’t bite you
I Love the Swifts,
by Ryan D
I love the swifts
they come in drips
don’t cap your chimneys
sometimes it’s windy
they need a home
they’ll be alone
so help them live
don’t let them die
but if you do
you’ll make me cry
They are the swifts
the Chimney Swift
they are the bird
our special birds
official bird
of Bethlehem
you’re telling them
how much you love
the way they fly
in the sky
Chimney Swifts
by Skyla O
Eyes black
body violet brown
black white
Wings a half
circle a big fat worm
with wings
When they fly
It looks like they don’t
have claws
Sounds like a
jungle and looks like
a tornado
They fake going
into the chimney then
come out
Together shaped like
a hat, each one like a bat
In the chimney
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