This year’s Children’s Poetry Contest Winners have been chosen! We received so many entries and they were all wonderful, so the judges had a rather difficult time choosing the winners! This year, we changed the rules just a little to allow for more winners, so instead of only three winners from grades 3 – 5, we opened the contest up to grades 1 and 2 and selected two winning poems (First and Second place) from each grade!
And without further ado, here are your winning poems!
First Place
First Grade Category
My Friend
By Alexis Bistline
Prospect Elementary
My friend loves
red and yellow roses
macaroni and cheese.
I love
white and purple blossoms
broccoli and cheese.
We are good friends.
Second Place
First Grade Category
My Mom
By Hadleigh Kime
St. Peter’s Elementary
My Mom
Dark hair, pretty
Playing, baking with us
I love her every day
Mother
First Place
Second Grade Category
Outside Fun
By Reese Vaught
Brinkerhoff Spanish Immersion
Slip and Slide
Slip and Slide
Bring your coat outside
Ice is slick
I will slip
Do a trick
Pants have ripped!
Second Place
Second Grade Category
Snowboarding
By John Adams
Homeschooled
As I was slipping,
my nose was dripping,
my pants might be ripping,
crackle crunch went the
snow as I was zipping
woosh, splat, ouch!
First Place
Third Grade Category
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By Samuel Brandes
Clear Fork Schools
Vader is black,
Yoda is green,
When you meet the Emperor,
He breaks your spleen.
Chewbacca is brown
C-3PO is gold,
Yoda is small,
And very old.
Second Place
Third Grade Category
Owls
By Sylvia Taylor
Discovery School
Owls stay up at night,
basking in the moon’s bright light.
They turn their heads around and around,
moving swiftly, trying not to make a sound.
SWOOSH! They swoop down,
very close to the ground.
Now it has a snack of mice.
Won’t that be nice?
Now it will sit in its nest
and finally get some rest.
First Place
Fourth Grade Category
Free
By Jevin Litwiler
Homeschooled
Through the thicket I can see,
Lying limp behind a tree,
A beautiful white-tailed deer.
I crept near to take a peek.
I was shocked, it looked so weak,
Eye so wide – full of fear.
In a trap, a bloody limb.
The situation looked so grim.
Pleadingly, it stared at me.
Gingerly, I took the trap away,
Secretly I hope that it would stay.
Instead, the deer ran – and was free.
Second Place
Fourth Grade Category
If I Were…Poem
By Kait Schuster
Discovery School
If I were an animal, I would be a cheetah because I’m fast and wild and crazy.
If I were a car, I would be a van because I like boxes.
If I were a sport, I would be soccer because I’m good at it…well sort of.
If I were a board game, I would be Operation because I like when people play me, and it would tickle me.
If I were a color, I would be blue because it’s my favorite.
If I were a book, I would be Goosebumps because I like scary stories like that.
If I were an ice cream flavor, I would be mint because I like the color green.
If I were a fruit, I would be kiwi because I love kiwi and the colors.
If I were a shape, I would be a heart because I like the way it’s written.
First Place
Fifth Grade Category
Summertime
By Rebecca Gregg
Richland Academy School of Excellence
Sunlight
Under a shade tree reading
Mild mornings
Moonlight campfires
Evenings are longer
Relaxing outside
Time at the pool
Interesting insects invade
Making memories
Enjoying the fair
Second Place
Fifth Grade Category
All the Blues
By Emily Kanney
Plymouth-Shiloh Elementary
If you were blind and couldn’t see,
This is what blue is to me;
Baby blue is shy; baby blue won’t speak up,
But don’t mind her, true blue is where you want to be!
True blue is brave; true blue is a good friend,
Sky blue is free; sky blue flies like the birds and soars through the clouds,
Blue green is like the sea, it throws foam against your face,
But pardon blue green, it doesn’t mean harm,
Turquoise blue is shiny; it likes to show off,
Cadet blue, cadet blue is serious, don’t get caught by him!
Periwinkle, what a sight! So giggly, would never get into a fight,
Pacific blue, it has a sly side, watch out, it might just splash you!
Robin’s egg blue, it’s so fresh, it feels like spring all over again!
Now you know all the blues, don’t you think they really run the show?
They’ll accept you always, even if you can’t see, that’s definitely the way to be,
So pick on to be your friend, I’m sure they’ll all be true to you;
Even that baby blue!
