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Title: Clarity
Poet: Andrew Alessio (Walt Whitman High School, Grade 11, Age 16)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer); Sponsored by Barnes & Noble
Year of Creation: 2007
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
Why do we go on?
Always marching, treading onward
Every little task performed
Over and over
By different people
By the same
We do it all, and hate it
Work meaningless work
So every other thing we do becomes important
There is meaning in everything
Everything we do
We just don’t know why yet
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Confinement
Poet: Alessandra Nicodemo (Walt Whitman High School, Grade 11, Age 16)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer); Sponsored by Barnes & Noble
Year of Creation: 2007
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
I am
the fairy on
his bedside table
in a little glass jar.
Bits of leaves and tiny sticks
can’t hide the cloth
in place of the lid.
Even if air can get in
it’s still horrible
that I can’t get out.
As beautiful as he is,
watching him
is no substitute
for flying.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Grandfather's Garden
Poet: Andrew Alessio (Walt Whitman High School, Grade 11, Age 16)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer); Sponsored by Barnes & Noble
Year of Creation: 2007
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
Do you remember
my grandfather’s garden
when we would run through
that ramshackle gate
down rows of tomato plants,
growing cabbage-heads, and Rhubarb
to the far side of the fence
where the peas grew
on their many vines
to see only the tiny flowers
brightly predicting pea pods to come.
And as the days grew longer
and as they grew warmer
I remember how he would pluck them,
those fresh, sweet pea pods,
open them with his thick thumbnail
and give them to us
so we could eat
only the tiny peas within.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Never Enough Time
Poet: Alfred Garcia (Huntington High School, Grade 11, Age 16)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer); Sponsored by Barnes & Noble
Year of Creation: 2007
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
Hours feel like seconds
And a minute in New York is too short.
30 mph is not fast enough,
Gotta run Everyday!
Alarms go off too early,
And the bus comes too late.
Gotta write a paper,
No time in the Day.
The Sun rises 1 hour,
2 hours, 3 hours, too soon.
The day ends too early,
Never enough Time.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: The Apocalypse
Poet: Lauren Vassallo (Walt Whitman High School, Grade 12, Age 17)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer); Sponsored by Barnes & Noble
Year of Creation: 2007
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
If the world was falling off its axis
and we had thirty seconds left to breathe
before cascading into infinite space for eternity
If you were aware of this impending doom
and somehow managed to escape the maddening chaos
long enough to be alone
with me
If we stood together
Alone
as life came crashing down around us
and I told you I loved you
would it be the end of the world?
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: The Lonely Exponent
Poet: Danielle Burby (Walt Whitman High School, Grade 11, Age 16)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer); Sponsored by Barnes & Noble
Year of Creation: 2007
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:*
12(to the 4th power) + 82(7) = 16x + 57
The exponent
all alone
in a separate stratosphere
no value of its own
only
increasing the value of others
12(to the 4th power) = 20736
The lonely exponent
in a parasitic relationship
20736 + 574 = 16x + 57
used and forgotten
leeched away until it disappears
21310 = 16x + 57
never to be thought of again
21310 = 16x + 57
-57 -57
allowing others to finish the work it began
21253 = 16x
16 16
longing in vain for
Equal Value
X=1328.3125
*NOTE: (to the 4th power) should be written as a superscript "4", but this webpage does NOT allow use of superscript numerals.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: The Person Who Could Probably Survive a Train Crash and Still Look Like a Supermodel
Poet: Melanie Malusa (Huntington High School, Grade 12, Age 17)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer); Sponsored by Barnes & Noble
Year of Creation: 2007
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
There is something so poetic
In the tears running down your face
Or maybe it’s the way that your eyes are still on mine
Not to the floor or to the sky
Not pleading or ashamed
It wasn’t enough to kill you
Hell, it was barely enough to slow you down
A few tears could never be enough
And when your tears are gone, you will dance
You will not forget, you may not forgive
But you won’t dwell
There are better things to do
I admire your quiet grace
Your bravery
Your dignity
Your poise
Your class
You
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: The Physicist and the Philosopher
Poet: Alicia Frank (Walt Whitman High School, Grade 12, Age 18)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer); Sponsored by Barnes & Noble
Year of Creation: 2007
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
Force equals mass times acceleration,
meters per second squared multiplied by how many kilograms
you are worth.
The force of gravity drags everything downward,
bowing the rose petals and driving the rain and knocking you down
to your knees in prayer.
You’ll go farther, longer, and faster with some elevation in this world.
Find an inclined plane and
aim your eyes at a forty-five degree angle.
The coefficient of friction depends upon what you are made of:
wood, rubber, ambition, pride,
a heart of steel and an iron will.
Don’t be discouraged by a slow start.
Static friction is almost always worse
than kinetic.
Besides, once you get going
and begin to measure your life in newtons, decimals, and love –
inertia will take care of the rest.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: The Stars Aren't Helping
Poet: Christine Kennedy (Half Hollow Hills High School West, Grade 11, Age 15)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer); Sponsored by Barnes & Noble
Year of Creation: 2007
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
Let the oxygen wrap around your lungs,
Keep the droplets in your innocent eyes
From flowing down your perfectly placed cheek bones.
The world does not always go your way.
That time machine will never work.
The pencil eraser is now bare
From all the things you have tried to erase.
The only hope you’ve got is for a better tomorrow.
Never regret things that have occurred.
You will only be wasting time,
Time that one can never get back
Wishing upon the stars isn’t helping
The stars can’t change things, only you can.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: These Things
Poet: Christina Marra (Half Hollow Hills High School West, Grade 10, Age 15)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer); Sponsored by Barnes & Noble
Year of Creation: 2007
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
There are things so much sweeter than sugar,
That cannot be tasted.
With energy more powerful than the rays resonating
from the sun,
That cannot be wasted.
Things of a higher nature,
Which one cannot buy.
Of only the purest rarity,
Which cannot go awry.
Some people ignore these things
And blindly take them for granted.
While others desperately search for them,
Living lives disenchanted.
These things are not easy to capture.
If they are caught,
The seeker would experience a benevolent rapture.
To have these things, it to have it all.
No more worries of nonsense,
No more bridges to fall.
They are all one will ever need.
For the heart, and nothing else,
Will be in the lead.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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Title: Winners
Poet: Bo Zhu (Huntington High School, Grade 11, Age 18)
Other Collaborators: AB Graphics (Placard Designer); Sponsored by Barnes & Noble
Year of Creation: 2007
Medium: Poem digitally printed on laminated placard
Approx. Dimensions (HxWxD): 11 x 24 in.
Description: Teen poem printed on laminated placards and displayed in the interior ad spaces of selected buses in the HART system.
Markings/Inscriptions:
Winners are people like you.
Winners take chances.
Like everyone else,
they fear failing,
but they refuse to let fear control them.
Winners don’t give up.
When life gets rough,
they hang in there until the going gets better.
Winners are flexible.
They realize there is more than one way
and are willing to try others.
Winners know they are not perfect.
They respect their weaknesses
while making the most of their strengths.
Winners fall, but they don’t stay down.
They stubbornly refuse to let a fall keep them from
climbing.
Winners don’t blame fate for their failures
nor luck for their successes.
Winners accept responsibility for their lives.
Winners are positive thinkers who see good in all things.
From the ordinary, they make the extraordinary.
Winners believe in the path they have chosen,
even when it’s hard,
even when others can’t see where they are going.
Winners are patient.
They know a goal is only as worthy as the effect
that’s required to achieve it.
Winners are people like you.
They make this world a better place to be.
Street/Site Location: HART Bus System
Owner/Administrator: Town of Huntington (Public Art Initiative)
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