Prize-winning Poet

Congratulations to Sara K. for winning 

FIRST PLACE in the poetry category 

of the Pewaukee Women's Club Student Writing Contest! 

The poem she composed reflects her interpretation 

of the Edgar Allen Poe short story, The Masque of the Red Death.

(posted by Mrs. Whelan)

I Had to Go Back

The clock in the corner

the walls painted black.

The moments I’d had there; 

I had to go back.

Red panes of the windows,

not even a crack.

The things that I’d seen there;

I had to go back.

The undisturbed flooring,

no signs of attack.

The things that I’d touched there;

I had to go back.

That happy room feeling,

of that it did lack.

The things that I'd felt there,

I had to go back. 

The wraiths in the corners,

all blacker than black.

The things that I’d feared there;

I had to go back.

The screams that I’d heard there,

a painful soundtrack.

The things that I’d heard there

I had to go back.