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2006 Poetry Out Loud Contest in Ohio

Contestant Poems

 
Emily Astorian – Granville High School
       “Forgetfulness” by Billy Collins
  “Catch a Little Rhyme” by Eve Merriam
  “Advice to a Prophet” by Richard Wilbur
 
Jackson Hille – Columbus Alternative High School
  “A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General” by Jonathan Swift
  “Altruism” by Molly Peacock
  “Forgetfulness” by Billy Collins
 
Lee Horton – Mount Gilead High School
  “Eagle Poem” by Joy Harjo
  “Famous” by Naomi Shihab Nye
  “Ways of Talking” by Ha Jin
 
Robert Jones – Eastmoor Academy High School
  “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes
  “Broken Promises” by David Kirby
  “To My Mother” by Wendell Berry
 
Jon Lamotte – Bishop Hartley High School
  “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost
  “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers—” by Emily Dickinson
  “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer
 
Casey Osman – Westland High School
  “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas
  “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar
  “Let it Be Forgotten” by Sarah Teasdale
 
Meredith Smith – Thomas Worthington High School
  “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou
  “Beautiful Black Men” by Nikki Giovonni
  “Bilingual/Bilingue” by Rhina P. Espaillat

 

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost



Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1923, © 1969 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc., renewed 1951, by Robert Frost. Reprinted with the permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.

Source: The Random House Book of Poetry for Children (Random House, Inc., 1983).

 

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