A "perfect" poem 

2025 5th-6th Grade Poetry Honorable Mention

Others around me are 
writing, 
typing, 
it just comes to their head. 
How am I supposed to just blink and have it come to me? 

I read Shirley Jackson's poem, “The Lottery.”
How did it come to her, when she was walking home with her child. 
Was it a cloudy day, or was it just perfect. 

Is the perfect poem sad, dramatic, funny? 
Is it supposed to rhyme? 
Do you need silence or noise around you, to inspire you? 

I’m just sitting in a little chair in a little desk in a little classroom, 
Surrounded by my peers. 
They seem to understand how to write one. 

But instead of a perfect poem I wrote this.