Two MGWS students, Katie McColley and Lizzy McManus, recently had their poetry chosen from a field of over 100 applicants in the Dover Library’s annual poetry contest. Congratulations, poets!!
THAT DAY
by Lizzy McManus
The day I was so happy,
and then
I heard the news.
She is gone forever
never going to say
I love you again.
That day.
The day I can never talk about.
The day she left.
SUCH A GIFT
by Katie McColley
Boredom strikes again.
And now I have to return you.
But your chapters,
lines,
and smell of sweet parchment
Will stay with me ‘till infinity.
Jet black ink,
printed on a page.
I cherished every word –
For I wouldn’t dare to forget them.
You gave me something to do
You gave me an interest
And most of all, you gave me a gift.
But you can’t give me that gift anymore.
For when I read your last chapter,
last paragraph,
sentence,
and word,
The laughter,
the intensity,
all drifted away.
And even if I read you,
again, and again, and again.
You will never be the same as the first time I read you.
For only the first time I read you,
can you give me the gift.