Award-Winning Poetry

The award-winning poetry featured in one of my previous posts is not mine.  It belongs to my five-year-old son, Tyler, who as you may remember, entered a kindergarten poetry contest through his school. . . And won third prize!  While I was not privy to Tyler’s creative process as he penned the poem, I was the one to tell him about the prize.  His reaction?  “I knew I would win when I wrote that poem.  I KNEW it!!!” 

            While it’s hard to argue with the cocky self-confidence of a five-year-old, it is just as hard not to admire it.  If only his mom had this kind of cockiness about her writing.

Here’s Tyler’s poem again (ah, the wisdom from the mouths of babes):

 

Once there was a frog

On a log

With another frog

Tyler told me that the poem is about friendship.  That’s as far from Alienation as you can get.  Thank God!