Life vs Death -- according to Jaelyn
Last week Jaelyn came home from school with a postcard From Creative Communication stating: Congratulations Jaelyn! Your poem “Life vs Death” has been accepted to be published in the book A Celebration of Poets . The postcard stated that her poem is in the final competition and may be a Top Ten Winner. They needed us to give permission for the poem to be published and to order a copy of the book if we wanted. Jaelyn told me that her Reading teacher had entered her poem in a contest through Creative Communication. I am so proud of not only her ability to express herself in writing, but taking the risk to write something that shared a deep part of herself. The part that struck me the most was not that her poem was selected to be published and in the final competition. Rather, after asking a few questions, I found out that only the style of the poem was given by the teacher for that particular assignment and she chose the topic herself. Life vs Death Life Ener