WRITING WINNER

By Gavin Mackenzie, 11th grade, Rocky Mount Academy

(ENLARGE)

By Endie Richardson, 4th grade, Nashville Elementary School

(ENLARGE)

By Anna Adkins, 4th grade, Falls Road Baptist Church School

(ENLARGE)

ART WINNER: Alex Thompson, 7th grade, Parker Middle School

Dreaming of death

Not fearing death.

These are daydreams

Not nightmares.

Hoping to find my kryptonite

To resurrect me

Out of my purgatory.

Like the phoenix,

I have been burned,

Now smoldering with passion,

In my own ashes.

Will she be the one,

To light my flame

And watch me rise

Up and leave

All the ashes she made out of me?

Poem 1

By Duncan Barnes, 12th grade, Rocky Mount Academy

Always quiet

And new

Silently critiquing

With modesty ...

Perhaps hidden talent

With a truer beauty

And kindness unrealized,

Words overshadowing leading to

Thoughtful innocence

And intensity in the silence.

Beautiful People

Veronica Magallon, third grade, OLPH Catholic School

Looking in a reflective pool of water

People ask themselves,

"How much does beauty weigh?"

Beauty itself is in the recreation of one's mind.

Ask yourself this question

And put the rest to the test.

Does your neighbor wear mean jeans?

Or show an unusual crooked tooth when they grin, or

Have earthquake hair that sticks straight up?

Or sound like a goose when they sip from a cup?

Himself, herself and all of ourselves are beautiful.