Finding You – Crystal Bruce
- First Place
I am a missing a pair of shoes lying in the closet
But you don’t feel like looking for me
I am a dust mite that floats in midair wondering where to
land.
Every day I whisper the words “I LOVE YOU”
And they float softly in and out your ear
Like the wind finding its way through autumn.
But I realize I’m not a missing pair of shoes.
I’m that new pair of Jordan’s you can’t seem to put down;
The white fluff you watch out your window on a summer’s day
I’m that one song you can’t keep out of your mind.
I am the wind finding my way to you.
The Land Uganda – Kofi Nimo – Second Place
The vicious land of Uganda
Where kids are taken from the mamas
Kony and rebel kill kids like Jason
But they work undercover like secret agents
The kids there are poor as if they are coming from the
projects
But they are like outcasts trying to climb to the climax
Why does the land of milk and honey
Be so repulsive to their own kind evilly
God Bless
Those with less
Man of a Thousand Years – A.T. – Third Place
I was one of many children
The only of which
To survive the second hour
My young spirit would flare
And every other time
A deep frost condemns my soul
A hoary stone
Time has paralyzed my spine
Purer is the honey
Of the crooning bird;
The blades surrounding me
Are only trodden by the hollow breeze
I weep for my brother,
Who had lived a life parallel to mine,
But now rests before me
My mother has kept me well
But I approach the dusk
The gilded sky engulfs me
My flaming hair
Sets the field ablaze
I whisper into the twilight;
I am not just a plant,
But a man of a thousand years
