“Dating Ad From Mars” by Kennedy Tomasi

Likes: 

Long walks around craters, 

soft dust coating my feet. 

Capturing shooting stars on my tongue. 

Writing out infinity

in my green, bedazzled notebook. 

Dislikes: 

Nosy astronauts. 

Satellites obscuring my view. 

When my Rover-Butler Malfunctions. 

(Thanks for those, NASA). 

Seeking: 

Martian who devours music 

like fresh picked buggle berries 

and breathes carbon dioxide. 

No Earthlings need apply. 

 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Kennedy Tomasi is a sophomore at PHS.

She started writing poetry at the beginning of the school year and has since then fallen in love with it, she says. 

“I definitely wasn’t expecting to place at all, so winning first place was an awesome surprise,” Tomasi said.