Students Win Cambridge Public Library Poetry Awards

The Cambridge Public Library/Cambridge Tree Project Tenth Annual Poetry Awards competition received over 700 entries from students in Cambridge public and private schools.  Congratulations to first-grader Bella Cameron, 1st place (tie) for "The Sky,” first-grader Ethan Grella, 1st place (tie) for "Ice Cream,” second-grader Taylor Guiffre-Catalano, 2nd place (tie) for "I Might Blow Up,” and fourth-grader A.J. Bauer, 1st place (tie) for "Books.”

drawing by Ethan Grella

Ice Cream first place (tie)
By Ethan Grella

Ice cream
You are so
Cold when I take
A bite of you. The flavors
Dance around in my mouth
All the different tastes
All at once.

Books first place (tie)
By A.J. Bauer

Books are different universes.
Books catch you and gobble you up.
They are portals which you step in
and find yourself in a different realm,
the author's realm,
oblivious to all in reality.
A black hole to another kingdom.
Books are callers to another galaxy.
Books let you go to another part of Ygddrasil—the world tree.