Spring 2008 High School Edition
Our Own
Jackson Carpenter
Poetry (9th-10th)
First Place
Snow Canyon High School
Teacher: Lenore Madden
People pour from glass buildings along wet April sidewalk
Try to hide themselves behind the small talk
Like human smokestacks crowded and stained
Stained with their neighbors words of waste
Smoke from hearts burning in flames they never faced
Their black umbrellas form the sad cloud
Covering bright souls with the dingy shroud
Still the light leaks out from in
Like from a million tiny holes
From a million little pins
Lost sailors wearing star studded coats
Wearing the night sky
Looking to each other for direction
A human Polaris to navigate by
Searching for another place
Where we can stop this self deception
This insincere shroud we call protection
Where we can finally be our own
In this house of flesh, blood, and bone
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