1ST PRIZE WINNER: “DAWN” By Levi Mason
It is early Dawn, when the warm breath of the sun just begins to kiss the frosted blades of grass and mellow branches of pine trees. Like mirror images, the Continue Reading →
2ND PRIZE WINNER: “SLEEPING TREES” By Eden Stelter
Lewis had the distinct privilege of loving his grandfather and of living rather close to his creaky square house perched upon the rim of the river valley: a faithful, weathered Continue Reading →
3RD PRIZE WINNER: “THE GREAT TREE” By: Adam Baskerville
The winds make me weary, as if everything all at once would be turned up and taken. The children love it, the leaves circling and tickling their small faces. Fall Continue Reading →
EROSION By: Jessica Marcotte
Sober clouds watch the cliff fall, Crash into water from heights tall Stir the silent riverbed Lost her clarity, clouds of dirt bled Soft rain, mound of fallen place Settled Continue Reading →
HAIKU (theme: planet/earth/politics) By: Raelyn Riley
The original teacher shakes with the “Strong and Free” against this fault.
The RABBIT, the FOX, and the CROW By: Daniel Doukpolagha
Ol’ Mr. Rabbit sat on field of green,Munching away at a patch of grass.‘Twas a beautiful day, no cloud to be seen,And the fields ripe for Mr. Rabbit to reap. Continue Reading →
THE WOMAN, THE MOTHER By: Francis Nzerem
Nkechi was only four when she became an orphan. Like most children her age, she was without a care in the world. She spent her time playing pretend in the Continue Reading →
SSPOMITÁPI: SKY PEOPLE By Blair Many Fingers
For all the Niitsitapiiks, The Real People who never had the chance to heal. It’s strange how our earliest childhood memories are like flashes of images stored in our Continue Reading →
BLACK & WHITE WORDS ON A PAGE By Mercy Trinh
Once upon a time, I was a kid. When I was growing up, I was a kid. Sometime after my eleventh birthday, and I was in grade 6, my mom Continue Reading →