Lower School House poetry competition
By Mr Seymour
Congratulations to Jonson! Special mentions go to Michael Suen - Sokiri for his five beautiful haikus, which ultimately won. Also, Thomas Callaghan ’ s Keatsean poem, which echoed Ode to a Nightingale, was brilliant. There was lots of beautiful imagery and interesting use of language in Nibishanth Arulsanthakumar ’ s poem. Eleazar Bediako and Natan Yosef both wrote clever, clipped Tennysonian poems which were tightly composed – rhythmic and rhyming, which I enjoyed. Milo Netti ’ s poem, which included an interesting epigraph was lovely too. Other excellent poems were written by Flynn Halfweeg, Jeremy Aidoo and Arseniy Gushchin. I was also very impressed with Vladyslav Borysenko ’ s prose poem, which made very imaginative use of language.
My World By Thomas Callaghan (Drake)
despondency Conniving limbs sundering my mind from the physical realm Sending me reeling into a new world For a few precious seconds, there is nothing Darkness insidious around me, like a thick smog Then there is a light Gradually this balmy light expands, until What had once been a perpetual shadow Is now an eddying symphony of beams And through the jungle of iridescence I can just lay my eyes upon it Before me it lies, the untold wonder My world
Listless, I recline in my chair Tenaciously holding on to consciousness My battle against drowsiness has been lost Insidiously, my eyelids converge towards my weary pupils I allow my mind to drift off, like autumn leaves in the wind For my body may be imprisoned, cooped up in a desk But my mind is free to wander, free as a cloud Finally, sleep takes charge of my limp body Wrapping its slimy tentacles of
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