"Smithtown In The Year 3000" Poetry Winning Entries

“Smithtown In The Year 3000” Smithtown Matters/ Smithtown Youth Bureau’s creative writing contest-  Poetry winning entry and Honorable Mention entry.

Winning entry - Alexandria Soldo

Predicate

I hope in the far flung future

When what we love and cherish

Can be passed on to a promising generation

Growing and learning under the watchful eyes

Of the proud copper bull

Exploring as I have beside the Nissequogue River

Through forests that we must protect

As one devoted to the preservation of our wildlife

Down the long lane where once

Horse drawn carriages paraded past

That we can honor our history and look to the future

Encourage change and change for the better

As we move on down dirt trodden paths

Looking to the branches above

Reaching infinitely towards the sky

We must take the tree’s example

Never stop growing and believe one day

You will reach your goal

Honorable Mention - Michaela Oliverio

The year is 3000.

The sky is bluer, the grass is greener, The streets are much cleaner. Population has expanded, And cars that used to park, have now landed.

The brain of society has grown, Now we have all answers to the once unknown. Old restaurants and shopping centers, Have now become places only automatons can enter.

Smithtown’s become a place of hocus pocus, Because technology and magic is the main focus. People go through their day, Without a worry in the way.

Fear and anxiety is ancient history, We flourish with technology that deletes our misery. The year 3000 is something we’ve never seen before, More advancements are knocking at our door.

“Town of Smithtown in the Year 3000.”