Winner
A Blessing
A blessing:
best friends and your family
faith and tradition
the smallest bit of hope lighting up the most difficult part of life.
A blessing:
health and happiness;
people that have come into your life and gone;
not being afraid to show everyone who you are;
being able to get through the pleasant and dreadful times when it seems you’re all alone;
seeing the good in the worst things.
A blessing:
No matter how big or little a thing—
It’s a blessing.
So, live in every moment like it’s your last,
Leave your bad memories in your past,
Focus on all the people who surround you with love,
Because you are the blessing.
-Lexi Zoldan
Canfield Village Middle School |
Runner-Up
problems
boys one day school the next problems with some real bad texts.failing science thats not cool, every year she has problems in school.its either science or its math,so far shes going down a bad path.scared of what will happen next,this one boy put her under a hex.shes failing science because of him,her grades are hanging by a limb.her grandma has cancer how long will she live,and on top of that she has a quiz.her grandpa died of the same thing,and at his funeral she had to sing.shes crying every minute of every day,her parents don't know what to say.hurting herself nobody knows,learned how to do that on some tv show.worried about her cousin hes in national guard,she has no money to get him a card.her birthday is coming up shes getting old,shes getting old but not getting bold.her best friend wants to die and so does she,and also she misplaced her keys.she asked her grandma and she said to pray,she tries to pry but don't know what to say.worried of how it will turn out,so mad shes going to scream and shout.shes getting hit and it hurt her bad,and no one cares that shes so sad.she wants to die and she thinks it shows,but she also thinks that nobody knows.her bestfriend and her hate this girl,this girl is making them want to hurl.bullying,suicide problems like this,alot of girls feel like this and some of them will be sorely missed.
-Katelyn Carver
Jackson-Milton Middle School
Runner-Up
Purple Comfort
Ripped seams from younger days.
Heart-broken days
wrapped up in purple fleece
like a present on Christmas day.
A kitten's charcoal-colored fur
which still seems to cover my forgotten cartoon heroes.
Thought of more than a source of warmth,
but of all four Teletubbies
and taking naps
with my plump cat in my arms.
Pink blotches still seem to dance across the fading fabric,
left behind from my poor kitten's medicine
after his big, crystal-blue eyes
went wild.
Invisible tears
left from that one last hug,
that one last kiss.
Those last blinks of my best friend.
These folded up moments
protected on my shelf
behind a closed door.
-Zoë Sommers
Poland Middle School |
Winners of the 2010