Poetry

Congratulations to the winners of the  Dogwood and Thomas Jefferson Garden Clubs 2011 poetry contest.

Amongst the Daffodils … by Moira Hulbert

I stay here
Surrounded by swaying heads
Of creamy white

As they dance
Their melody ripples down
From the edge of the field
To the tips of my toes
And for miles behind me
In the never ending cycle
I stand here
Surrounded by swaying heads
Of creamy white
Among the daffodils

The Lady and Her Flowers … by Sydney Taylor

Everyday she walks out to the field
She walks out to the field
With her garden gloves and shovel
The gloves matching the flowers surrounding her.

She finds love in these flowers
Love that she has not felt so strongly
Peace that she has not felt in many, many years
She tends to them better than she tended to her own children

She knows the ground and the sky and the flowers
Better than anybody.
She knows that the world around her is thinking
She knows that her flowers need her
And that she needs the flowers

She becomes sad in the winter
When the snow blankets her children,
Her life support,
She becomes restless.

When spring comes
Her flowers started to miss her
The new bulbs waiting in her little tiny shed
Thirsted for spring soil

The little old lady
Thirsted for the color that he flower children provided
From her white bed in the white room in the large building
With other people around her in white gowns.

Her yellow flowers stayed in their free world
With the free fresh air and sky and brown soil.
While their mother stayed above them.
In an even larger field of daffodils but still caring for them from afar.

PRESS RELEASE

Dogwood and Thomas Jefferson Garden Clubs are pleased to announce the outstanding performance of two students at Charlottesville High School in the 9^th grade class of Carly Nicholson.  The theme for poem entries is “Field of Daffodils.”

 

• Moira Hulbert

Thomas Jefferson GC winner 1^st place

Shenandoah District winner 1^st place

Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. 1^st place

South Atlantic Region (Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Kentucky) 1^st place

Miss Hulbert’s entry was sent onto National Garden Clubs, Inc competition.

• Sydney Taylor

Dogwood Garden Club 1^st Place

Shenandoah District 2^nd Place