Grade 10 and up winner: Katie Edwards (Grade 10, Eric G. Lambert School, Churchill Falls, Labrador)



THE POETRY

Grade K - 3 winner: Lyndon Rogers, Grade 2, Trinity, Bonavista Bay

Space

Space is...
The moon and the big, huge sun,
Spaceships and large laser guns.
The Big Dipper, the Little Dipper and UFOs,
Comets and a lot of black holes.
Lots of planets like Venus and Saturn,
Constellations that make lots of patterns.
Aliens and the big Milky Way,
Stars that's really far away.

Space is a place I'd sure like to see,
But maybe a Martian might eat me.


Grade 4 - 6 winner: Anna Condon - Grade 4, St. Kevin's Elementary, Goulds

Horses

Horses, horses, wild and free,
In the meadow is where they like to be.

Not barred up in a squishy shed,
Horses like meadows and green grass instead.

There are many kinds of horses,
Appaloosas and paints,
American jumpers jump over high gates.

If you were a horse where would you like to be?
In a shed or a meadow, running wild and free.


Grade 7 - 9 winner: Rhonda Racine - Grade 7, Jerseyside, Placentia

My Good Friend - Our Public Library

Book reports, assignments and essays to do.
All the information I wish I knew.
For answers to the things I need to know
It's off to the library I have to go.
With all of the books there for me to read
To grow some smarts, reading helps set the seed.
If I don't find what I'm looking for I don't get upset
I know the ladies at the Library
will hook me to the Internet.
When all my school work is done and reread
I look for a book of pleasure to take home to bed.
When into my head all the dreams start to creep
I visit a lot of far places in my sleep.


Grade 10 and up winner: Katie Edwards - Grade 10, Eric G. Lambert School, Churchill Falls, Labrador

Lost to Labrador

A vast expanse of wilderness
Separated from civilization
Alone in a blanket of white
The wind howls
The snow is blinding
No one is here
As the brilliant sun sets beyond the western horizon,
darkness falls
Black
I do not know what lays ahead
Mystery has arrived with nightfall
I have hope?
My dog team has disappeared
Lost forever.
My mind wanders, questions are asked.
What will become of me? My family?
I wish to be with them...
This is not possible, however.
I am lost.
Lost to the woods, lost to the snow,
Lost to Labrador.

My eyes open slightly.
I shield my view as the sun rises once again
Hope...
I wait, ponder, thought overwhelming me.
I may be found
I have survived
I wait........
Suddenly, towards the far off snow covered mountains,
I see rescuers?
They are coming!
I cannot move
I cannot speak
I am a prisoner of the cold.
But...they see me.
I am going home!
I am no longer lost to the wood, to the snow
or to Labrador.