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Sunday, May 9, A
The first-place poems in the
Friends of the Back Mountain
Library Poetry contest
1st Place - Adult
Grace
Driving home
my eyes take pleasure
in the curve of a dark hill
against the dusky light of sky
as if at this moment
and at this place
earth and sky
have made perfect peace with each other.
‘The undulating ridge
so tenderly lifts itself
to the sweet airiness of sky
while that breathless twilight
rests just barely against
the sure and somber mass of the hill.
Within that slow, sweeping arc
between dark below, light above,
shimmering possibility dwells.
| know that now,
even if not
on all the other evenings
when | have been driving
this way home.
© 2004 Elizabeth Bodien
1st Place 9-12 Grade
An apology
someone next to me
grass prickling our backs
as the sultry stickiness
of a summer's day
melts into the intangible liquid sky
of a summer's night.
Guest speaker Melanie
Maslow Lumia read the
winning poem in the
Grades 4-8 division for
shy, young poet, Erica
Luzetski.
Do you wish me to
Pretend it is you | want
And not the concept?
© 2004 Skye Nickalls
Lake Lehman H.S.
1st Place 4-8 Grade
Things | Wish | Could Remember
FOR THE POST/M.B. GILLIGAN
I wish | could remember when | first rode my bike or tied my shoes.
| wish I could remember my first bee sting or my first visit to the
doctors.
| wonder did | cry?
Did | panic?
Or maybe | didn't mind.
| wish | could remember the first book | read by myself.
| wonder was it hard?
Was my family proud of me?
| wish t'could remember who my first friend was.» at
“| wonder was she any fun? :
I really wish | could remember what | had for dinner on 1 Friday.
|' wonder did | likeit?
© 2004 Erica Luzetski
Dallas Elementary
Poetry
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month.
“These readings are comfort-
able and low pressure and
they’ve grown over the years. We
have kids, teenagers, waitresses,
landscapers, and even a federal
judge,” said Lumia. “Now, I hope
these kids will come out and just
perpetuate it. There's a little
poet in all of us.”
There must be as this first con-
test attracted 310 entries and
students from 16 area schools.
Judges were Mike Dzanko and
Amy Lynch-Biniek, both from
College Misericordia, and Bernie
Kovacs from Wilkes University.
“We really want to thank our
underwriters,” said Jill Kryston.
“Without them we couldnt have
done it.” Prizes were provided by
Age of Innocence, Arts at Hay-
field, Jack Burke with Penn
Millers Insurance Company and
Wachovia Bank.
All winning poems can be read
on line through the Friends of
the Back Mountain Memorial Li-
brary link on the library web
page at www.backmountainli-
brary.org.
Winners for the Adult Division
were: first place, Elizabeth Bodi-
en, Kempton, PA; second place,
Michele Broton, Wilkes-Barre;
third place, Jin Lee, Saylorsburg.
Grades 9-12 Division winners
were: first place, Skye Nickalls,
Lake Lehman High School; sec-
ond place, Christopher Taylor,
Bishop Hoban High School; third
place, Shannon Prescott, Lake
Lehman High School.
Grades 4-8 winners, all from
Dallas Elementary School, were:
first place, Erica Luzetski; sec-
ond place, Demetra Szatkowski;
third place, Carl Baxter.
_.Demetra Szatkowski read her
poem, “My Dog Bit My Sis-
ter,” which won second place
in the Grades 4-8 division.
FOR THE POST/CHARLOTTE BAR
At Dallas Borough, an anonymous girlfriend joined John Cybulski, Nick Harris and Frank
Kus as they took a break from helping residents discard unwanted items and assorted refuse.
Cleanups draw big crowds
By RONALD BARTIZEK
Post Staff
BACK MOUNTAIN — The
annual spring cleanup got off
to a rousing start last Monday.
Dallas Borough Manager Joe
Moskovitz said unwanted
items dropped off by borough
residents filled seven or eight
containers that day alone, far
more than in previous years.
“We're not concerned about
the volume,” Moskovitz said,
since the cleanup provides for
proper disposal of items that
might otherwise end up along
roadsides.
Dallas Township Supervisor
Frank Wagner feels the same
way. “Our main thing is to get
it off the roads,” he said while
overseeing the collection area
behind the municipal building.
Wagner also feels the
cleanup saves the township
time and money that would
otherwise be used sending the
road crew to pick up discarded
items off roadsides or dragging
them out of the woods. “This
is a lot easier,” he said.
The township budgeted
$11,725 for the rental of 25
containers to hold this year’s
trash. By Tuesday afternoon
nine containers were full.
“Monday and Saturday are the
big days,” Wagner said.
Don Fritzges, road superin-
tendent in Kingston Township,
said the volume of junk was
about normal, despite the en-
actment of charges per car,
trailer or truckload. He said
there had been very few com-
plaints about the fees; $5 for
cars, $10 for vans and $25 Br
trucks or trailers.
Fritzges said township emn-
ployees are free to take items,
and he was planning to take
home some children’s outdoer
play furniture, clean it up and
let his children sell it.
“It helps keep (the junk) out
of the landfill,” he said. +
Wagner was concerned that, :
in order to avoid the fees, some
people had come to the Dallas
Township cleanup with dis-
cards from Kingston Township.
He said he knew one man was
doing just that, but he h
Dallas address. “So, w
could I do?”
Poetry contest winners and officials are pictured. In first row, from left are: Demetra Sza-
tkowski, Erica Luzetski, and Carl Baxter. In rear are: Martha Butler, library director, Vi
Gommer, co chair, Michele Broton, Christopher Taylor, Skye Nickalls, Shannon Prescott, Jill
Kryston, co chair, and Melanie Maslow Lumia, featured editor.
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