Winning poem by 9-year-old: ‘Let’s All Save the World Together’
Washington Post – Jasia Smith, a 9-year-old fourth grade girl from Burrville Elementary School in the District, wrote the following poem, which won this month’s DC SCORES Poetry Slam! contest. She beat more than 300 other students from the District’s public elementary and middle schools. DC SCORES is an afterschool program for about 700 students from the city’s public schools. Jasia said she writes poems and songs all the time. The inspiration for the winning poem came from her love of nature and the Earth, she said. Read Poem
