LHS poet reads her award-winning work for City Council

[Peter Grossetti]

In recognition of recently being named a National Gold Medal Winner in the prestigious Alliance for Young Artists & Writers Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Lakewood High School sophomore Grace Roberson was presented a special Resolution from City Council and the Mayor at the Monday, April 1, 2013 Council Meeting.

Before presenting the Resolution, which was introduced by Councilman Shawn Juris (Ward 3), Council President Brian Powers (At-Large) asked Grace if she would read one of her poems. Here is what she read:

If Love Was Not a Question
by Grace Roberson

I.
I suppose if love was not a question, I would know why my heart pounds like a hammer, nailing a silence to my chest that I never knew existed.

II.
I am in a recession of my own, searching my pockets for spare change to pay for the use of small words with expensive meanings.

III.
If I ever loved you, you would dehydrate me. Loving you would be staring at a parched sheet of paper, screaming for a drop of a sentence. It would not stop until I choked out a novel.

IV.
If my heart were a typewriter, it would have stopped working by now. Frustration slams on my keys like the brakes of a car with a coughing engine, and the margin release pulls me off to the side of the road.


Read the full story about Grace here: http://lakewoodobserver.com/read/2013/04/02/lhs-student-earns-national-gold-medal-award-for-poetry


Here is the Resolution :

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Peter Grossetti
Associate Editor for Community Engagement
The Lakewood Observer Project
petergrossetti@lakewoodobserver.com