Local students use poetry to express peace from within they are judged by seasoned local writers. 12 local students offered inspiration and comfort Sunday at Mattituck-Laurel Library, where they presented original poems about “Inner Peace” to their families, friends and members of the community, proving that peace might not be all that far away.The poets were third- through sixth-graders from Our Lady of Mercy in Cutchogue, Cutchogue East Elementary and Oysterponds Elementary in Orient. Their poems saw sources of inner peace in everything from a hot tub and the smells of a mother’s cooking, to Arizona or a hideaway in one’s closet. Through these poems, the students professed their innermost thoughts about feeling at peace in their own ways. Less