2025 Poetry Contest - Middle School Entries A Rainy Day – Norah Zylstra A World Above the Clouds – Avery Cook Above the Clouds – Abigail Ehlers Above the Clouds – Addison Shmalcs Above the Clouds – Camila Rosas Above the Clouds – Ephraim VendeKieft Above the Clouds – Evelyn Mick Above the Clouds – Hannah Ehlers Above the Clouds – Lark Thomas Above the Clouds – Maisie Elscott An Astronaut’s Treasure – J. Owen Verhoef Birdsong – Chrysanthemum Blake Dionysius Converting the Pagan Philosophers – Phoebe Haug Goodbye – Brooke Van Zante In My Dreams – Nienna Van Der Molen Invisible Peace – Grayson Kanis Lucifer’s Fall – Elliott Squier Now You’re High in the Clouds – Kaitlyn Weaver Once Upon a Distant Moon – Ashley Mome Places I Never Should Have Left – Alyssa Manifold Racing Above the Clouds – Elizabeth Demuth Resisting the Clouds Calling – Caroline Demuth Staring at the Sky – Mariel Ryerson That Which is Above the Clouds – Maddux Christiansen The Day He Flew Away – Breanna The Moon’s Jealousy – Alouette Bollman The Sky’s Secrets – Lucy Blommers Trauma Above and In the Clouds – Isabella Strang Untitled – Ryan Lanning What Lies Beyond the Clouds What do you see – Alaina Herdegen What is Above the Clouds – Jenna Hoksbergen Where the Bird Goes – Elsie Payne Where the Wind Blows Fair – Betsy B. Why Must You Go Above the Clouds – Luthian Wings – Natalie Brown questions-what lies above the clouds – Maeya Wilson what lies there – Cora Terlouw