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POETRY WINNER
Madison Morrison
WILMINGTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 11TH GRADE
VIEWS FROM AN AZALEA
Buds, however hard they try,
Will always be young souls.
Petals soon unfold to display
My everlasting beauty.
My colors inclusive,
Stark white, like caps
On the ocean waves;
Fairest pink like cotton candy,
Nibbled by toddlers, oh so dear.
Brighter of pinks, adorning
The dress of a belle, as
Those adore her.
A festival dedicated to me.
My scent encapsulates
A renewed sense of spring.
The queen and her court,
Bejeweled with many of my trusses,
Are worthy of a king.
The touch of my petals
Often feel as velvet bundles,
That abound throughout
The festival grounds.
Find me spotlighted
In luscious gardens
And lining the streets of
Historic Wilmington.
Belles, like my blooms,
Young souls,
Youthful legacies with stories untold
As they are spotlighted
With me.
Madison Morrison is a talkative, outspoken
11th-grade cheerleader at Wilmington
Christian
Academy. She volunteers at New Hanover
Regional Medical Center and with the Pretty in
Pink Foundation. She hopes to be a pediatric
oncologist, inspired by the doctor who treated
her mother for cancer many years ago.
april 2019
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