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.
