"Poetry" is Forever Enigmatic - Jae (Stephanie) Kim (Richard Henry Dana Middle School, Eighth Grade)
Poetry will always whisper lullabies a mother could never sing.
Letters like ants strung upon invisible twine
At the mercy of anyone who will ever hear them
Interpreted in a way they were not meant to be read
You cannot know anyone, and you cannot know their poetry,
Unless you have known everything their heart has to say.
Their words are ticklish along the hairs on your arms, crawling toward you
An inner monologue assembled as an army
Prepared to declare a war
Between the soul and mind,
And to side with logic you give up the pen
The potential works you could have written
To side with your mind you give up your life, the imagination like roads
Stretching beyond the lengths of the universe
That as a child,
You bounded endlessly across.