Budding Year 9 Poets Impress!
Two of our talented Year 9 students have been shortlisted for the Red Room's - Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan Local Prize. Congratulations to Oreoluwa A and Emmalynn d on this achievement! We hope you continue to follow your passion and share your voice.
L-R: Oreoluwa A and Emmalynn d
Nature within me
By Emmalynn d
The crackling beneath my feet
Cut branches
Now eyes, watch my every move
Gumnuts
Seeding through the ground
The loud squawking of crows
Overhead
Fresh clean air fills my lungs full
Deep breaths
In, and out
An overwhelming calmness of nature
Thunder clapping sticks
Small orange sparks like stars
Bright red flames
Stretched to reach the sky
Dark clouds
Encompassing the vast blue
Deep breaths ragged
Calm nature
Now ferocious cries
Little bud
By Oreoluwa A
A sprout, a yawn and a little beam.
The sun kisses her face,
And with that a beautiful day awaits.
The night was dark and dim,
but tomorrow is here.
Her worries of the past,
no longer need to be feared.
Wet dew trickles on her petals.
Each moist sphere crystallises her glow.
As the earth hugs her tight,
Mother sees her beauty flow.
But…
Even beauty cannot escape what lies with all our fate.
So, day after day,
Mother carries her pain.
Night after night
she cries for her life.
Mother bears not to see another drop of despair.
So as the sun fades,
Little bud also decays.
Ann Treanor - English Coordinator