2024 POETRY CONTEST 

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BURBANK MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARY

Burbank Middle School's Library sponsored its first Poetry Contest during the first week of May. The contest was organized by our librarian, Ms. Amanda Garza. Students from all grade levels and academies were invited to submit their entries to Ms. Garza. She then created a Google document where our faculty were able to read the contributions and vote. Ms. Garza was happy to announce that we had many entries from all grade levels. These are the winners:

From left to right: Alexander Contreras, Jillianne Umul, and Janeal Canizares

Congratulations to all participants, and especially to our three winners: Alexander Contreras, first place, Jillianne Umul, second place, and Janeal Canizares, third place.

Please enjoy their poems below as well as the rest of the poems contributed in the next pages of our Wingspan Magazine!

IN A LAND OF LAUGHTER AND CHEER

In a land of laughter and cheer, where humor danced from ear to ear,

There lived a poet with words so bright,

Whose verses brought smiles day and night.

With wit as sharp as a jester’s sword, 

He spun tales that left us all floored,

From silky cats in fancy hats, 

To chickens crossing roads with acrobat acts.

His rhymes were like tickles, impossible to resist,

Tickling our funny bones with every twist,

And as we hugged him with tears in our eyes,

We couldn’t help but realize.

That life’s too short to be taken too seriously,

So let’s embrace humor, oh so deliriously.

 By Alexander Contreras, First Place