Newspaper’s Young Poets Contest winners announced

Every year, when the entries start pouring in to The Christian Science Monitor’s Young Poets Contest, the editors are as excited as the young people who’ve entered their work. The editors thank everyone who entered, and congratulate the seven top winners chosen by poet Elizabeth Lund. One of the poems follows. Read more online.

Notebook

Two butterfly wings
White
With gentle streaks of blue
Spreading out.
Dark metal body
Glittering
In the morning sun
Let her fly
With the imprint
The memory of words
Written on the thin
Delicate white
With veins of blue
Soaring
Through the infinite space of thought
Riding the breezes
Of imagination,
Drifting
From flower
To bright-colored flower
Of budding words,
Ideas
Speckling the white
Blue-streaked wings
With dust
Of a lead pencil
Marking the paths
Of its travels

Michal Goderez
Amherst, Massachusetts
8th grade