ARCDC Library Announces Winner of Annual Poetry Contest The Academic Recovery and Career Discovery Center Library Media Center would like to congratulate the winner of this year's poetry contest, 7th grade student Tearrica Moore. Tearrica's original poem, entitled "Where do you find a blessing?" earned her $25 and a certificate. Thanks to all the participants. Winner Where do you find a blessing? by Tearrica Moore, 7th Grade Where do you find a blessing When the sun don’t shine When dad is not there When there is no hope Where do you find a blessing When everyone has an opinion about you When you cry yourself to sleep When you give up Where do you find a blessing When you feel like no one’s there When mom is trying to be mom & dad When people call you names So I ask Where do I find a blessing. 2nd Place Untitled by Arelius Code, 6th Grade If somebody loves you, you cannot be sad; you’ve cause for rejoicing, you’ve cause to be glad. You’ve a subject for song As you journey your way; If somebody loves you you ought to be gay. If a curly-head baby of four is your pride, chattering gaily Along by your side; All trouble should vanish, All care disappear, If the baby who loves you Is pattering near If you’ve an old mother who loves you today; your life should be merry, your work should be play. For think of the motherless children there are, who still plod the roads leading ever so far. If somebody loves you, A wife or a child; A mother or father, A friend’s helping way; You ought to be merry, You ought to be gay For love, after all, Is the purpose of life; The purpose of struggle, And turmoil and strife If somebody loves you Why worry and sigh? For love we are living, And love cannot die. 3rd Place (tie) No Bullies Allowed Justin Cato, 8th Grade If you know someone who has ever been bullied. Or if you have been bullied yourself, Don’t be scared, just tell someone else, Then you won’t have to worry at all, Because now no bullies are allowed. 3rd Place (tie) Life by Brandon Hunt, 8th Grade Day by Day and Night by Night time pass and time come good or bad wrong or right we wake up everyday to the morning sun to make better choices or to make worse decisions bad decisions causing divorces or having a good life living religion Now I tell you look and listen do what you have to do to make dreams reality no hoping or wishing 3rd Place (tie) I Have Always Loved You by Cameron D. Washington, I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED YOU AND I ALWAYS WILL. I WISH YOU WERE HERE, BUT I KNOW IT WAS GOD’S WILL. IT HAPPENED FOR A REASON, AND I CAN’T TAKE IT BACK. THIS IS VERY HARD, BUT I KNOW IT WILL BE OKAY. IT ISN’T GOODBYE, I’LL SEE YOU ONE DAY!!! R.I.P. GRANMA MADEA Honorable Mention Color Poem by Zachariay Temple, 7th Grade Blue Blue is the color of the sky. Blue is the sound of the moving ocean. Blue smells like a blueberry pie. Blue makes me feel happy. Blue tastes like a blue jolly rancher. Blue is the sky, ocean, and lake. Blue is renewal. Blue is beginning again. Blue is sky high.

Academic Recovery & Career Discovery Center
Margaret A. Brown, Principal
Caddo Parish School District
401 North Holzman Street
Shreveport, LA 71101
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