Teen Poetry Contest Winner for 2000
Laura Stewart
Niles North High School, Grade 12
Message in a bottle
With these words that came from water, written on water, dissolving like
dust in water, I
put these papers into a bottle in hopes of someone finding them. In search
of a new
beginning, and in hopes of a new love. I sit by the shore as the sun rises,
extend my arm
back and throw.