About 50 students from each school contributed original work, which was judged by the school library media specialists, librarians from the Golden Library, a published poet and a middle school language arts teacher. Following are some of those winning entries. Silently Speaking You can always find solitude speaking in the morning. Ever present with the stillness of night a morning glow ambient and bright illuminates only the eggs of snow-laced river rocks. The dark pines are melted by the light to become dark with needles.
Light snowflakes fall from above like feathers from an unknown bird.
I sit here watching the forest. Hearing its solitude speak. The solitude speaks to me silently through universal sign language of dancing tree branches, and flights of cloud over peaks. Solitude speaks in stillness aloneness and calmness. Its speech is godlike and timeless, speaking only in the early morning minutes.