WRITING WINNER

By Joseph Brown, 10th grade, Rocky Mount Academy

(ENLARGE)

By Hannah Turner, sixth grade, OLPH Catholic School

(ENLARGE)

By Caroline Paul, third grade, Falls Road Baptist Church School

(ENLARGE)

By Myisha McCoy, seventh grade, Parker Middle School

(ENLARGE)

ART WINNER: Savannah Franklin, sixth grade, Rocky Mount Preparatory School

Three Poems

Only Temporary

Lightning strikes.

Children awaken.

Power off.

Darkness.

Nothing.

One child remains hopeful.

Soon, power returns

And the clock starts blinking.

12:00

Open Your Eyes

See Spot run.

But can Spot see where he is running?

No. Silly Spot has his eyes closed.

Now see Spot run ...

Straight into the wall.

Tsk, tsk. Silly Spot.

Just a Precaution

Stop just in case.

No one is coming,

But do it anyway.

Just as a precaution.

It never hurts.

Unadulterated loathing

By Duncan Barnes, Rocky Mount Academy

Turned into obsequious slaves.

Retaliation is out, out of the question.

In this inimical world of accursed social

cohesion

Retaliation is out, out of the question.

No.

Turning to rage

Twisting the knot inside, the final strains

of restraint discharged.

Acceleration of loathing, driving my

physical force.

A ball of hatred

I cross the t's.

Terrible Day

By Joey Przelomski, third grad, OLPH Catholic School

I woke up early to go to school

But my cat scratched me.

I thought it would be a

terrible day.

At breakfast my sister got all of the fruit juice.

Mom had forgotten to buy

more because of a storm.

I thought it would be a

terrible day.

When we got to school we were

almost an hour early.

I thought it would be a

terrible day.

Now, I thought it could not get

any worse but,

To tell the truth it did.

We ran out of gas and had to

Push the car home.

It was a horrible day.

I was in so much pain.

Let's move to a place on this

continent with

Mountains and good weather.