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CMM Young Creatives Competition

The Midlands’ next poets

CMM extended an offer to 10th grade classes across the Midlands to select a student representative from each school for submitting a poem in our CMM Young Creatives Competition. We were so pleased with the entries and offer our compliments and best wishes to all of the young writers who competed. A special congratulations to Bridget Bedenbaugh who won!

Bridget is 17 years old and is in Katie Johns’ English class at Batesburg-Leesville High School. Her favorite subject is science, and she also enjoys reading, debates, JROTC and painting. She hopes to one day be a journalist.

Honorable mentions for other outstanding poems are: Thomas Thurman at Spring Hill High School, Edwina Lewis at Spring Hill High School, Lydia Stewart at Spring Valley High School, Brianna Bledsoe at Batesburg-Leesville High School, Ashley Marie Massey at Ridge View High School and Xavier Clark at Columbia High School.

Present Politics

By Bridget Bedenbaugh

No mortal is fully accepted.

Their flaws, now ruling,

Are enhanced through media.

No mortal can meet

the standards it takes

To satisfy every follower.

Blinded by arrogance,

They instead, choose

The dictator to cut off

their tongues,

take their books,

Strip their freedom,

And curse our knights

in foreign lands — to death.

Accusations of prejudice

are made,

The thoughts of

the beautiful nation

Are being cleared.

The word of marking,

Is spreading through

the mouth of gossip.

It is apparent,

That offence of words

Are now unlawful

Unconstitutional,

Due to the sensitivity

Of the unemployed,

Low postulate civilians,

Who refuse to stand up

And defend, but instead

Will cowardly cry

Behind their brave angels,

They refuse to believe in.

You need a God in your Nation,

But refuse to accept Him.

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