First Place - 9th-12th Grade
Those Who Are Broken
The smallest and most timid one
Is oft not what he seems.
Having his dreams crushed once again
Leads him to bigger dreams.
A heart made strong by pain and grief
Is strongest of them all,
And he abused is oft the one
To stand when others fall.
For deep within a broken soul
There is some courage still.
The time will come when neither pain
Nor fear can break its will.
And just as every stallion
Has come from a small colt,
That hidden seed of strength will tell
The broken to revolt.
And when a broken heart's great strength
At last becomes laid bare,
His bullies wonder at the boy
They never knew was there.
When people watch, throughout the years,
The lives of meek and small,
The smallest and most timid are
The greatest of them all.
David Lamp Ontario High School 9th Grade
Second Place - 9th-12th Grade
Into the Fog
Late on the eve October the 9th,
A ship set out to sea.
Carrying a load of immigrants
To the land of the free.
Those aboard the ship that night
Were filled with hopes and dreams,
But they'd soon come to find,
That fate is not what it seems.
The captain, respected and very well known,
A weathered old sea dog,
Sailed that ship through the wind and rain,
And disappeared into the fog.
The ship and its crew have yet to be seen.
Could they be found someday?
That ship full of immigrants, out at sea,
That strangely lost their way.
Tyler Gatton Mansfield Christian School 10th Grade
Third Place - 9th-12th Grade
The Time Flies
In a forgotten land where most creatures sleep,
And great fish move slowly beneath the deep,
Where starving beasts stroll and birds glide through
the air,
Ages pass by while they sleep in their lairs.
In this ancient land of no cares or worries,
There lives a critter that flutters and scurries.
This small creature does not sleep or tire,
But moves through the air with wings the hue of fire.
These creatures move in swarms to plague the land.
Their wings tick and tock like a clock's second hand.
The time flies do no harm. They don't sting or bite.
But time passes quickly as they take flight.
They fly in great hordes, moving from place to place.
Their tiny red bodies change the land and space.
Because of the time flies, memories are lost.
The time flies keep moving, no matter the cost.
The land grows weary. Through the trees the wind
cries.
Swarms cloud the sky. It's amazing how time flies.
David Ellsworth Lexington High School 11th Grade |
