AHS Top Dogs for 2008-2009

Congratulations to AHS Sophomore Patricia Stuart, who took second place in this year's Ohioana Library Association's Robert Fox Award for Young Writers Contest.

Here's the sonnet that so impressed the judges:

Winter

Cold white flakes float gracefully to the ground
Seems the leaves fell down just yesterday
Many birds ‘round here are not to be found
Hibernation season’s on its way
A white wonderland is all that I can see
Snow rests on now bare branches of maple trees
It begins to cover the ground around me
Unheard the dying grass sends up its pleas
Dense snow smoothly blankets countless rolling hill landscapes
Sunbeams reflect light sparkling beautiful rainbows
A brand new bud through melting snow escapes
No longer does the brutal snow oppose
Animals begin to emerge from their warm winter hideouts
And along cool winding brooks new wild grass sprouts

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