IN MY ARCHAIC CLOTHES
By Eric Davis
Baxter, Grade 6
Don’t lock me up in the cold, cold coffin
In the cold, cold ground
In my archaic clothes.
Do not place my coffin in the windy hillside.
But let my ashes sail,
Sail through the stormy sea.
Let the wind blow.
Blow me far away into the sea,
Where it sings a lullaby and
Lets me sleep, sleep, sleep.
NORTHERN LIGHTS
By Marcella Dent
Airport Heights, Grade 5
Oh, Northern Lights,
Racing wildly though the hushed sky,
Flashing your fiery colors
Like a spinning dervish dancer.
Weightlessly journeying through space,
Weaving tapestries around stars.
Wrapping earth in blankets of effervescence,
Like a dragon’s scorching breath,
Warming the cool crisp night,
Silken rivers of iridescent colors,
Banishing shadows.
HARMONY AND SILENCE
By Amber Morgan
Airport Heights, Grade 4
Harmony is soft
Like the fur of a baby bunny
Nesting in the grass.
Melodic like a robin’s song
Drifting among the trees.
Gentle as a newborn lamb
Nudging her mother.
Sweet as plump cherry
Whose juices run down my
throat.
Fresh like ripened strawberries
Under the July sun.
But
Silence is rough,
A frayed rope
Dangling from rafters,
Overtaking joy.
A field of weeds
Crowding out pansies.
Dark silence
Surrounding souls.
Tart.
Abrupt.
Unnerving.
By Katherine Palmer
Williwaw, Grade 6
Bursts of energy
sliding across rooms of kids
Moving rhythmically
THE SNOWGIRL
By Carly Sprano
Family Partnership, Grade 6
First you roll her
Then you pack
Put her there
And start to stack
Crown her with an old top hat
Break off branches
With a crack
Wrap a scarf
Around her chest
Sew buttons on
Her new bark vest
Put some raisins
On her face
Add a carrot
And her Grace.
“The sea is a …”
By Kyle Stattner
Baxter, Grade 6
The sea is a bucking bronco of
waves
A valley of water
Twisting, turning
Rising, falling
Racing, gliding
Laughing, crying.
Day, night
Night, day.
The sea is a valley of waves
A bucking bronco of water.
ASPEN TREES
By Steven Tabor
Airport Heights, Grade 4
Silent and stiff
Through the long winter night,
Bending over with crackling
spines,
Frostbitten and numbed
Waiting for the morning light
While the wind hisses
And the moon-captured
shadows
Dance on the glistening,
powdery ground.
Winners of the 2000 Margaret Mielke Poetry Awards
Winners of the 2001 Margaret Mielke Poetry Awards
Winners of the 2002 Margaret Mielke Poetry Awards
Winners of the 2003 Margaret Mielke Poetry Awards
Winners of the 2004 Margaret Mielke Poetry Awards
Winners of the 2005 Margaret Mielke Poetry Awards
Winners of the 2006 Margaret Mielke Poetry Awards
