Top 5 Stormwater Poems by You!
In our last LA Stormwater Newsletter issue we asked you to share your poetic words with us about clean water and environmental stewardship. The response we got was fantastic! It’s exciting to see that, not only do you read our newsletter and care about stormwater issues, but you are also such great wordsmiths!
As a thank you we decided to choose some of our favorite entries from the clean water poetry contest, which we’ve put together in the slide show below. Please read the poems and meet the clean water supporters who submitted them! Thanks to all the contestants, as it wasn’t easy narrowing it down to these five!
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about 7 months ago
Hi there,
Thank-you for these poems they were really cool!
about 7 months ago
Thanks, Annie! We thought they were awesome too! Our community members came up with some really great poems!