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Each year, the library hosts a Poetry Contest for grades K-12 to celebrate National Poetry Month, which is in April. Winners and honorable mentions are selected for grades K-2, 3-6, and 7-12. This year’s theme was “Who Am I?” A big thank you to Mrs. Claudia Wasserman for her generous donations to support the poetry contest and for selecting our winners! Below are our winners for 3rd through 6th grade.

1st Place: Sadie Kennedy Jaffe, 6th grade, Raynor Country Day School

Who Am I? 

I am me

I am I

I am easy to mortify

I am me

I am I

I don’t usually qualify

For scholarships,

Contests and races,

Because everyone looks at me

with such uptight faces

In school,

I am average,

A real ‘middle’ kid

My grades are decent;

I guess I should be proud of how I did

My after-school activities,

Art, Gym, and Girl Scouts,

Where when anything happens,

Everyone shouts

When I’m with my friends

We play video games and cook,

But their avatars

always look like crooks.

I wish I could sleep every day until half past 9

Plus, some of my clothes aren’t even mine

They used to belong to my sister

Not very stylish right now

And I want to play Twister

But we can’t anymore

Because she is at college

And my parents aren’t as young as they used to be

No offense, Mom and Dad

But I don’t really get acknowledged

And I barely see my sister

And I barely see myself

Because people barely see my personality

And I barely see myself

 

2nd Place: Halle Geller, 6th grade, Raynor Country Day School

Who am I? 

Still a child

Young and in school

I don’t know much yet

But I have a tool

 

My brain and my heart

Lead me through life

Good and bad

Happiness and strife

 

There are things that I love

A broad range of skills

Such as singing, acting,

and all different thrills

 

I enjoy skiing,

Water and snow

Through mountains and lakes

Once I even got vertigo

 

I love to write

Though sometimes I struggle

What to share about

I can never find the right route

 

I have tried hard

To put words in this poem

To describe who I am

 

Who am I? 

 

3rd Place: Elizabeth Sultan, 4th grade, Westhampton Beach Elementary School 

I Think Outside the Box

People think about cats and dogs and even frogs, but I 

think outside the box, 

I turn those frogs into dancing frogs, with cool hip hop

clothes, as they swagger on stage to perform,

Regular dogs are boring, if you ask me, when you can

make them into anything you want, how about flying 

dogs wearing Pjs,

Those cats, oh those little scruffy cats, are so plain.

What about a unicorn cat having kittens on a window

pane, 

People think, but I think different,

One day I will be flying, and the next day I will have super

powers, that’s just thinking outside the box, 

and that’s my kind of thinking! 

 

Honorable Mention: Camdyn Glover, 6th grade, Raynor Country Day School

Who Am I? 

I am, 

 

A Believer. I long for peace, justice, tolerance and understanding for all

and by all. I believe in love. Love one another. 

 

A Dreamer. I reach for the highest point and strive to achieve my goals. I

don’t believe in settling.

 

A Go-Getter. I believe one should live boldly, take chance and live life to

the fullest. Just go for it! Have no regrets. 

 

A Leader in Action. I help those around me and those who I cannot see. I 

believe in setting an example for all of those around me. 

 

A Warrior. I stand up for what I believe and for what is right. My voice will

not be silenced and my actions shall not be squashed.

 

I hope the world is ready for me. 

 

Honorable Mention: Collin Roberts, 4th grade, Westhampton Beach Elementary School

I am me, and I love me.

Here are some things I love deeply

I love my local library cause its nice to hang out

there. 

Pick out a good book I see to talk about

and share

Free food is my mood!

Arts and crafts won’t be last in fact there

in the beginning. 

Arts and crafts are really fun and now that

I’m a tween I get to use a glue gun. 

Once I made a dry erase mirror

When I wiped the expo off the board got a 

lot clearer

My favorite librarian is my mom because she is

the bomb! 

 

 

 

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