The South Simcoe Arts Council has been shining a spotlight on up and coming writers of all ages, in all genres through its Creative Works Writing Contest for six years.
Please enjoy this instalment of our Creative Works Youth Writing Contest winners series featuring Youth Poetry Winner - Brooke Bowers
This award is sponsored by Premier Contractors Ltd
Setting life to Stone
By Brooke Bowers
Peace is just a virtue
Hope is just advice
Hidden here inside hallowed walls
Locked under tainted chains
A figure of stone lingers
Within the shadows of time
Slumbering it awaits the changing of the tide
Come no further, then you are lost
Speak no words, then you are found
Here enwrapped with tomes of old
Encased in such beauty, yet hidden in such misery
I beseech thy to go further than I
To set ablaze to the folly of the past
and pass the torch to the young
For it will be them
To explore and rewrite the times of war
To succeed in what could not have been before
To surpass the meaning of origin
And weaken the excuses of hate
To carry the flame and bring life to the stone.
Thank you for reading. If you would like to learn more about our Creative Works Contest for 2021 please visit us here: southsimcoeartscouncil.com/exhibits-events/writing-contest
Submission Deadline is November 13, 2021