Cooper Wollenhaupt
In Such A Dark Hour
In such a dark hour,
With lifeless skies.
A once cheery, joyful blue
Turned black by the passing of time.
And the world sleeps
In this dark hour.
Prey go and hide,
While predators return.
The sky, black and darkened,
Heavy with sorrow.
Things held dearly,
Forgotten and locked in shadows.
Death soars through the eerie black,
A moon glimmers with hope,
Its light shining bright in the black.
As it travels through the lonely sky,
a radiant hope arises.
The darkness clears,
And blue skies come again.
* Selected for recognition in the 2025 Poetry Contest presented by the New Milford Commission on the Arts.
In The Wild
Never silent
Birds chirp
Wind Breezes
Feasting
Never stopping
One after another
Day through night
Circling back
Some beasts go
Some never return
Always changing
New things come
Old things go
But nature never leaves
Only changes
* This poem received national recognition in the 2026 Manningham Trust Student Poetry Contest and appears in the NFSPS Youth Poetry Anthology.
