This week’s edition of Make it a Splendid Week focuses on our feelings and how we act on them. Jahzlynn’s poem My Feelings!, coupled with Yareli’s drawing Myself has us thinking about how people express their feelings in a unique way. What do you do when you are joyful? What does the world feel like when you are calm? How do you act when you are excited? Keep reading to learn Jahzlynn’s answers! Make it a Splendid Week!

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My Feelings

When I feel joyful, I play basketball for 2 hours.
When I feel calm, the entire world stops spinning.
When I feel excited, I jump on my bed and touch the roof.
When I feel friendly, I meet new friends and have fun
talking to them and doing school projects.
When I feel powerful, I do 20 push-ups and feel strong.
When I’m running, my muscles get stronger like Wonder Woman.
When I feel angry, I go in my room to calm down and get on my phone. When I feel fearful, I shake, and then I shake it off
and say, “It’s going to be all right!”
When I feel sad, I listen to music and I don’t like to talk.
When I feel lonely, I play on my phone and watch TV.
When I feel bored, I go play basketball for 30 minutes, then go in the house and get back on my phone.
When I feel good, I do things to enjoy myself. When I feel bad, I don’t enjoy myself.

Jahzlynn, age 11 

This entry is a part of our series “Make it a Splendid Week”! Follow along weekly to enjoy excerpts from The Splendid Review, an anthology of poems, short stories and autobiographies written by talented young writers engaged in the Periwinkle Arts In Medicine Program at Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers.