Conestoga Sophomore's Poem Wins National Competition

A Conestoga High School sophomore has won a national poetry competition, according to StogaNews.com

Emma Jiang submitted her poem to the American Chemical Society’s Earth Day competition, which challenged students from around the country to come up with a poem and an illustration.

The project was originally part of an extra-credit assignment in chemistry class, the report states.

Jiang’s poem is reprinted below:

remembering a time

when the air was full of life

and the trees danced a waltz

casting shadows the stretched the streets

now is the time

to conserve, recycle, preserve

rescue, revise, re-establish

the foundations of our home

Photo courtesy of Michael Li.