Miss Ilse

By Rose Dunlap

She writes poems like birds who sing
She is sweet and kind.
I love how she copies my words
For my poems.

She is the best
Of the grownups
I’ve met in church.
She’s the bestest
Friend I
Ever could have.

Love,
Rose

Rose Dunlap

Rose Dunlap, our youngest poet, wrote this special poem to commemorate the birthday of Central’s Poet Laureate Ilse Kramer.