Congratulations to the winners of the  Dogwood and Thomas Jefferson Garden Clubs 2012 poetry contest!

Leah Marshall from Charlottesville High School (9th grade) won 1st place for her poem in the Dogwood GC Poetry contest local level.  She also won 1st place for Shenandoah District and 1st place for Virginia Federation of Garden clubs

Autumn Acorn, by Leah Marshall
The orange leaves
whisper
as they fall
from the
trees.

The stream
trickles by
babbling
and flowing on.

A little brown squirrel
scurries by
carrying acorns
in his fat
little cheeks.

An innocent
little thief.

The chirp
of bugs
as the night
draws near.

Autumn is
definitely here.

 Jack Intihar from Free Union Country School (1st Grade) won 1st place in Thomas Jefferson GC Youth Poetry contest , 1st place in Sheandoah District and 1st place in Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs competition.  Both clubs sponsored contests for all area youth as part of the National Garden Clubs, Inc. Youth poetry contest for 2011-2012 for “Colorful Fruit” or “Tasty Vegetables.”  Both clubs plan to offer the contest again  for 2012-2013 Theme:  “Protecting Our Aquatic Friends”  

Cucumbers by Jack Intihar
They roll around like a ball.
They don’t come out in the fall.

My Mom cuts them into wheels.
She doesn’t take off the peels.

Cucumbers are fun to eat!
Almost like a tasty treat.
And they have lots of seeds.
Other local contest 1st place winners were

• TJGC - Caroline Miller (1st Grade Brownsville), Dabeny Spraker (2nd grade Collegiate), Max Leblang (3rd Grade Greenbriar), Hugh Jackson (7th grade, Buford), Eve Allen (9th grade Charlottesville High)

• Dogwood GC – Lydia Hodges (1st grade Free Union), Max Leblang (3rd grade Greenbrier), Stefani Mitrovic (7th grade Buford)

 

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