Winter Holiday Poetry Competition!

Don't forget that Mr. Lorenzini has set a competition for winter poems! All that white glistening beauty outside, silencing the cars and footsteps into a hushed world. Transforming even the dreariest winter’s scene into magical possibilities for the imagination. Surely the snow alone is enough inspiration to enter into the creative art of writing.......or maybe you spent your winter break somewhere hot? What's that like? Maybe you are with close family once again after a long time separated.....how does that feel?

There is no question that winter is an inspirational time of year. Stare out the window, soak up the atmosphere, feel the warm fire, the hot sun, the freezing cold, the frost on the car and explore the words that come to mind.....

A reminder of the rules:

• Only students from the school can enter (maybe we should set up an adult one too....what do you think?)
• It must be written/typed independently by you without anyone's help
• All poems must have the student's name and grade level on them
• The deadline is Friday January 14th

The prizes:

• Top entries from every grade level will receive a special prize.
• There will be a prize for the best poem that is not in English
• As many entries as possible will appear in the February edition of the Elementary News on school blogs!

Good luck poets. I leave you with some very interesting quotes from some famous writers and poets. Have a guess to what they might mean...ask your parents what they think!

Mr. Driver :-)

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. W. H. Auden

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot

A poet can survive everything but a misprint. Oscar Wilde

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. Paul Valery