river of words art and poetry contest winners of 2009 big moth by ariel q. moran, 6th grade...
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“River of Words”Art and Poetry Contest
Winners of 2009
Big Mothby Ariel Q. Moran, 6th grade Rochester Middle School; Teacher: Leslie Hill 1st Place Category II WA State
Through this contest you are encouraged to learn new ways to explore your backyard, schoolyard, neighborhood, parks, watershed and other wild places.
Then express what you’ve learned, felt and observed through words and images.”
Students in kindergarten through grade twelve are invited to enter the poetry and art contest.
The deadline for submitting entries to the international contest is December 1.
About 100 poems and art work from both U.S. and international entries are selected as finalists each year. All
winners receive ribbons, books and/or art supplies, t-shirts and other prizes.
Eight Grand Prize winners —four in poetry and four in art, in four different age categories—
are chosen from the US entries. Category I — Kindergarten-Grade 2
Category II — Grades 3-6Category III — Grades 7-9
Category IV — Grades 10-12
Winners for the International Contest are announced each April at a gala event in San Francisco, California.
The Grand Prize and International winners win an all-expense paid trip to Washington, DC to attend the ROW Award Ceremony at The Library of Congress.
For entry forms and a complete listing of contest rules and guidelines, visit the “River of Words” Web site at: riverofwords.org/contest.html and/or tnl.esd113.org
Washington state entries in the
International ROW contest are returned to the ESD 113/Chehalis Basin Education Consortium and are entered in a regional contest, “Words and Images from the Watershed: Washington’s River of Words”.
2009 International ROW Poetry
Winners
Unseen SecretsI hide my secrets in the core of a brick
and on the surface of a star.
I tell my secrets to the unseen spirits around me
and the light rays from the sun.
Secrets live where man cannot go,in the farthest part of space
and inside a velvet mite.
Quinn H. Whitlow, age 7Category I (K-2nd Grade) 2009 Grand Prize WinnerSt. Louis Park, MinnesotaHomeschoolTeacher: Lisa Burger
Noah Jordan, age 9Monkey's Raincoat Prize Winner (Honoring a Short Poem in the Tradition of the Japanese Haiku)Alna, MaineCenter for Teaching & Learning (Edgecomb)Teacher: Jill Cotta
Reflection
Yesterday,I found a person just like
mein the frozen pond.
Grace Fitzpatrick, age 13Anacostia Watershed Prize Winner (Honoring a Washington, DC Area Student)Washington, DCSt. Peter's Interparish SchoolTeacher: Sandra Pierce
Anacostia Shakespearean
Oh dear and lovely river of my dreamsI watch you sway and sing the world to sleepI watch my childhood playing with the fishI remember the crystals on the wavesThe wildflowers that I picked in bouquetsYou moan, but none can hear your quiet cryYou flowed to town from gentle hills aboveYou twist and turn, you slow to quench a thirst.In winter I see tiny snowflakes fallWe fail to help you now and in the pastWe fail, but we stand to try once again.Some say that only god can make a treeBut rivers can be saved by kids like me.
Maddie RoachAge 11
With the Flow
Our wonders, ponders, calculations, misunderstandingsAll of our thoughts converge and collideExplode and expandFalling, tumbling, spinning floating,Ending and being bornthoughts flow down the river of lifeand into the watershed
Shadow Across The MoonMoon, shining on the lakegleaming under the headlights of the rusty Chevytruck clamoring down the highway. The lake ripples.The rock eroding down the mountain surrenders. Pines circle, water depends.Another world. Another life. A wolf steps into the opengiving itself to the shadow across the moon.
Arianna LaChance, age 12Shasta Bioregion Prize Winner (Honoring a San Francisco Bay Area Student)San Anselmo, CaliforniaGreenwood School (Mill Valley)Teacher: Devika Brandt
Noah JordanAge 7
Bird
Bird high upI climb to the skyI soar over a woods and forestsI sing in the high hidden leaves of tall treesI fly south when the white flakes touch my feathersI am a bird
ReflectionYesterday,I found a person just like mein the frozen pond.
Noah Jordan, age 9Monkey's Raincoat Prize Winner (Honoring a Short Poem in the Tradition of the Japanese Haiku)Alna, MaineCenter for Teaching & Learning (Edgecomb)Teacher: Jill Cotta
Some of the 2009 Winning
International ROW Art Entries
Swan2009 International Grand Prize Winner
Atalanta Shi, Age 13Burnaby, BC, Canada
Submitted Independently
KilldearCategory I (K-2nd Grade) 2009 Grand Prize Winner
Jake Barrios, Age 7Watsonville, California
Watsonville Charter School for the ArtsTeachers: Linda Cover & Allegra Bortin
The Brown Bear in the Deep CaveCategory II (Grades 3-6) 2009 Grand Prize Winner Erik Raul Oliva, Age 9Chico, CaliforniaChico Country Day SchoolTeacher: Kari Zigan
Night FlowerCategory III (Grades 7-9) 2009 Grand Prize Winner Scott Styslinger, Age 14Birmingham, AlabamaThe Altamont SchoolTeacher: Marygray Hunter
Remembered WaterCategory IV (Grades 10-12) 2009 Grand Prize Winner Eunsil Choi, Age 17Lawrenceville, GeorgiaParkview High School (Lilburn)Teacher: Judy Nollner
Winning Art from our 2009 WA State
ROW Contest
KingfisherAriel Moran, 6th GradeRochester Middle SchoolTeacher: Leslie Hill1st Place Category II Chehalis
Night LeaperErick Andrews, 7th grade Lakeside Middle SchoolTeacher: Susie Mortensen1st Place Category III WA State
Summertime SpiderWyatt Nelson, 7th Grade Rochester Middle SchoolTeacher: Patricia MottHonorable Mention Category III Chehalis
Swimming UpstreamErick Andrews, 7th gradeLakeside Middle School; Teacher: Susie MortensenHonorable Mention Category III WA State
Winning Poetry from our 2009 WA
State ROW Contest
The Forest When I was youngI climbed the treesand watched them bendand touch the ground When I was older,I would walk the paththat many had usedand seenthrough the dappled sunlight Now I watch from the edgein a cabin by a wood And some timeI may guardthose who wanderand playin the trees.
Bryn Benson, 6th gradeWashington Middle School1st Place Category II WA State
Comfort
I feel comfort throughout my forest
where the water rumbles and glides,where red leaves dance and spiral downward,
and where the wind sings to the trees
I feel comfort when I gaze at animals lurking,or when I find their hidden tracks.
I stare in wonder at the victorious raccoonsas they proudly boast over their catch of fish.
I feel comfort as I walk along the paths of mud
and feel the Earth's rocks and stones.As I pluck the watery stems of flowersor as I feel the gushy moss on trees.
I feel comfort in My forest.
For it's My home and My place.
Jordan Sherfey, 6th GradeChehalis Middle School
Teacher: David DeitzIst Place Category II Chehalis
October Sometimes when we are sleeping,October slips into town;She tints leaves red and orange,Then paints them golden brown.Each bright leaf starts dancing,In a crisp, painted gown;But when October kisses them,They laugh and tumble down.
Tori Scherer, 7th Grade Rochester Middle SchoolTeacher: Patricia Mott1st Place Category III WA State
The Moon
Hiding behind clouds,Shining bright and glowing,
Waits for the next night.
Jennifer Holmes, 8th Grade Rochester Middle SchoolTeacher: Martin Woodruff
1st Place Category III Chehalis
Darkness Assaulted
Just beyond the electric glow of the window,above the hapless darkness,
Night spits stars across the sky,and some drip down from above,
gleaming globules.
Far away,where there is no window,
no electric glow,Night doesn't spit stars;
he throws them,streaks them,
pours them in silver rivulets,liquid fire.
Kyrie Benson, 10th Grade
Olympia High School1st Place Category IV WA State
All WA State ROW entrants will receive certificates of appreciation.
Winners will receive art supplies, books and other prizes.
ROW winners will also be recognized in late April in a special ceremony at the WA State Dept. of Ecology
headquarters in Lacey and winning entries will be featured in ROW publications.
For more information on ESD 113’s Chehalis Basin Education Consortium, and the regional “Words and
Images from the Watershed: Washington’s River of Words” Program, please visit our website at:
http://tnl.esd113.org