Stump Wins Poetry Contest
Jamie Stump of West Windsor took a first place award in the Collingswood Book Festival poetry contest. A fifth grade student at Millstone River School, she is 10 years old.
She was in the West Windsor Arts Council’s multi-arts camp this summer and learned about the competition from her poetry instructor, Anna Evans. Stump was invited to read her entry at the children’s tent on the day of the festival. Her poem, “Secrets,” follows:
The little bird whispers soft secrets in my ear I swear never to tell
The honeybee tells me sweet stories they taste like liquid in my mouth
The butterfly lectures me about her flights and I listen intensely
The flowers show me dances they learned from the wind I laugh until my side hurts
The leaves blow through my hair fixing stray strands
They all tell me adventures of their lives and I swallow them down
