Veedersburg Public Library - Teens
Veedersburg Public Library’s
2008 National Poetry Month’s
Contest winners
Kindergarten—1st Grades:
No Entries
2nd—3rd Grades:
1st Place - Brooke Nine
2nd Place - Chyna Galloway
4th—6th Grades:
1st Place - Hannah Gayler
2nd Place - Emily Payton
7th—8th Grades:
No Entries
9th—12th Grades:
1st Place - Kristin Doss
2nd Place—Kristen Bussey
Beholder
1st place winner 9th-12th grade, Kristin Doss
Born into this world as an insolent beauty
Nothing could wrong her mistakes
Making the best of what she had
In the best way she knew how
Hoping and dreaming only lead her astray
Every missed step was another wrong way
She never knew what she was doing
She only knew she must keep going
Her childhood hood was a lonely one
She never went out, she never had fun
She always did what she was told
But she always was some big disappointment
Her teenage years were full of drama and lies
Boys treating her badly, girls talking behind her back
She'd feel their whispers on the back of her neck
She was just a passerby looking at her feet
She dreamed her big dreams and she went to college
She got married and had children of her own
That beauty she grew and she prospered too
And no one ever even noticed that young gorgeous thing
She passed last week
With one sentence in her last breath, lying on her death bed
"I tried my best, I changed the world,
and I have nothing left to prove."
It Wasn't Like This Yesterday
2nd place winner 9th - 12th grade, Kristen Bussey
She'll keep walking down the road
Searching for something to hold
she used to have a dream
But now she has nightmares
Hiding under the covers
With just some paper and a pen
This is the bed she's made
And she can't fall asleep in it
'Cause she's haunted by demons
Telling her she's not worth it anymore
She's haunted by the past
And how nothing's the same anymore
Her old friends are now enemies
And her enemies are her best friends
In a world where she struggles to breathe
Wondering, whatever happened to the real me?
Catch the Reading Bug
1st place winner 4th - 6th grade, Hannah Gayler
Catch it, Catch it!
Where did it go?
There it is, at the end of
Your nose.
What is it? What can it Be?
It's the Reading Bug.
Yes, Indeed!
So sit down, grab a book and
Read with me...
2nd place winner 4th - 6th grade, Emily Payton
From A Bug's Point of View
From a bug's point of view we are giants,
From a bug's point of view a raindrop is a pond,
From a bug's point of view a puddle is a ocean,
From a bug's point of view a cat is a lion,
From a bug's point of view a lighting is fireworks,
From a bug's point of view wind is a tornado,
From a bug's point of view a shoe is....SPLAT!!!!
The following poem was written in the shape of a butterfly:
1st Place winner 2nd-3rd Grade, Brooke Nine
Butterfly, Butterfly
How pretty, soft, colorful, angelic.
You fly from daisy to daisy
from marigold to marigold.
You fly like the wind.
You are a colorful insect like the reading BUG.
You are colorful like a rainbow.
Butterfly, butterfly.
2nd Place winner 2nd-3rd Grade, Chyna Galloway
There once was a bug
She was laying on a rug
she didn't know what to do
So she counted to two
When she got done
She asked the cook
"Will you get me a book"
When she got done reading the book
She went to the lake
She found a snake
The snake was eating a cat
With a funky hat
Then the snake and the bug
Went back to the rug
And they took a nap
And each were wearing a cap
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