Sarah Mizrachi is in the 11th grade at Austin High School. She submitted poetry and photography this year and last year won a prize for one of her photographs. She enjoys reading, exercise, and art.
POETRY- 2009
Grades 7 - 9
First Place - Zoe Goldstein
Third Place - Asher Mintzer
Grades 10 - 12
First Place - Sarah Mizrachi
Poetry, Grades 10 -12: First Place
A Light - Sarah Mizrachi
A wondrously gentle and complex childhood
Is like a flame beginning with a small bit of wood.
It reaches upwards in a magnificent trail,
With light and warmth, upwards it sails,
Can I last without a light in the sky?
Can I live without a need to ask why?
Life is nothing without a light to yearn towards,
The reason a fire reaches upwards,
Life is a purpose, a reason to try,
If not, why live, why love, why try?