Nina Woldt took home the top prize for her poem entitled “Beautiful Things.”

“I was in advisory, looking around for inspiration and I looked at the window and it was really sunny out,” she said. “That’s how I came up with the first lines of my poem.

“I am very inspired by nature and my family.”

The contest, according to WPSU, was open to students across central Pennsylvania in grades kindergarten through 12th.

Poems were selected from grade bands – K-2, 3-5, for example – and will be published on WPSU’s website.

The top entry in each of those grade bands – like Woldt’s will be aired on the radio during an episode of Poetry Moment on April 29, corresponding with National Poetry Month.

The program’s host, Marjorie Maddox, selected the winning entries after an initial review of submissions by regional partners.

Here’s the award winning poem:

There is always beauty-no matter where you look.

Golden sunlight streaming through an open window shade.

The most gorgeous things are the simplest ones.

Swaying leaves switching outfits, a painter’s magical dream,

A fire dancing and crackling in an ancient stone hearth,

There is always beauty-no matter where you look.

Saltwater waves delicately licking your bare feet,

Memories past framed and drowsing on a wooden mantel piece,

The most gorgeous things are the simplest ones.

Sitting atop a pine swing soaring high up into the sky,

Jack Frost’s frigid paintings left on the frosty windowpanes,

There is always beauty-no matter where you look.

Finding a neglected fountain, moss loved and scarcely gurgling,

Hanging shimmering adornments on the light-weaved Christmas tree.

The most gorgeous things are the simplest ones.

Opening a handcrafted card from a sibling, one that’s replete with love,

A butterfly delicately landing on your hand while paddling on a mist coated lake.

There is always beauty-no matter where you look.

The most gorgeous things are the simplest ones.