Newspaper clippings · 1974Estimated date

Children's contest poems — newspaper page

Prints selected prize-winning poems, including Shooting Stars and Tell It Like It Isn't.

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Page 11 Children's poems SHOOTING STARS When stars get loosened in their sockets, They shoot off through the night like rockets. But though I stay and watch their trip, And search where they have seemed to slip. I never yet have found a chip, To slip into my pocket. by Suzanne Nettenmaui 1st place, 1st and 2nd grade division I used to be a flower, blooming in the sun; Able to be lazy all day long. But now I am a clock, always on the run; For I have to control the journey of man. by Mike Bologna 2nd Place, 7th & 8th grade division TELL IT LIKE IT ISN'T It isn't really beautiful It isn't full of glee. It isn't all quite pretty, But it's quite all right with me The world isn't perfect, And it doesn't get a fee The whole world isn't Hermosa, But it's quite all right with me. by Ted Brigges 3rd Place, 7th & 8th grade division

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SHOOTING STARS
When stars get loosened
in their sockets,
They shoot off through
the night
like rockets.
But though I stay and
watch their trip,
And search where they
have seemed
to slip.
/ never yet have found
a chip,
To slip
into my
pocket.
by Suzanne Nettenmaui
1st place, 1st and 2nd grade division
I used to be a flower,
blooming in the sun;
Able to be lazy all day long.
But now l am a clock,
always on the run;
For I have to control
the journey of man.
by Mike Bologna
2nd Place, 7th & 8th grade division
TELL IT LIKE IT ISN'T
It isn't really beautiful
It isn't full of glee.
It isn't all quite pretty:
But it's quite all right with me
The world isn't perfect,
And it doesn't get a fee
The whole world isn't Hermosa,
But it's quite all right with me. Jack's
by Ted Brigges
3rd Place, 7th & 8th grade division