Page No: 11 Founder’s Day Issue 2015
The Box Jellyfish
Will’s Works I found this poem and thought it was extremely appropriate as we are learning about Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice”. I find it astonishing that the poem includes all thirty-seven of his plays. I would like to say I wrote the poem but that would be a lie. Finally, I like the poem because William Shakespeare has an awesome first name.
The silent assassin of the sapphire seas Never seen near the moonlit bay When you see it you freeze If you are its prey You are attracted to the glow of its head See as graceful and calm Beware, it’s one of demons bred Soon it will bring harm
The gelatinous creatures top it all They drift and sway
Floating toward their prey, the tentacles sprawl As they silently perform their aquatic ballet They look full of peace Their beauty’s austere The death rate starts to increase As they quietly explore the oceanic frontier As the ocean’s light starts to fade Try to scream and shout but no one hears your call The jellyfish end their marine serenade It’s too late for us all You were invincible in the past You take its stings You better swim fast, or it will be just him last The scars wrap round you like rings
Ant & Cleo, Rom & Ju, Famous lovers who stayed true, Comic Errors, dramas light, Midsummer’s Dream and then 12 th Night, Love’s Labour’s Lost and Much Ado, As You Like It, Tame the Shrew, Windsor’s Wives, Verona’s Gents, Measures two paid William’s rent. Hamlet, Tempest; ghost and magic, Othello, Caesar; heroes tragic, Corialanus & Macbeth Had fatal flaws, met violent deaths. Now we’re in historic lore, Parts one and two for Henry Four. For Henry V there is but one, Three whole parts for Harry’s son. Of Henry Eight, the experts say Will had help to pen this play. John, two Richards and King Lear, (Should a made up King be here?!) Titus, Timon, blood and gore Venetian Merchant; just five more Troil & Cress and Cymbeline, Like Pericles aren’t often seen, Winter’s Tale and last to tell All is Well that Endeth Well.
Say your prayer Stay strong and be brave You should not have listened to the dare Now you have left to your grave
Darshanya Whittington-Rao, 8C
Komodo Dragon
William Sachs 7E
Joshua Soyke -
Pinon, 8W
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