2025 Lower School Poetry English Department
A Walk in the Woods by Oscar William, Year 7 Trees like skeletons, with their withered, naked bones, sway lifelessly like puppets on a string, Mighty were they in their glory days, tall and proud like kings and queens. Yellow seeping from their every pore, Their majestic reign ended once more. We walk on. Lonely birds, the camouflage of their nests cruelly stolen, continue on their quest, Circling above, circling above, circling above. Their squawks, like human cries, echo through the silence,
Natural History by Jesse Sopade, Year 8 Then, all was calm The water lapped gently, and the animals lived in harmony Then, it was peace, A perfect balance of nature, a single, complete masterpiece Now, it is uneasy The spirits of those beasts who were once free Are restrained, restricted and dominated by humanity Now, it is crumbling The precious natural framework Being destroyed by one race of things Soon, it will be over Planet Earth used as if a children’s toy Soon, we will be naught but dust Humanity having enjoyed this pleasant toy for too long Time is unforgiving It does not stop, it is the whole, we are the fractions And if we don’t act before our section is finished We will be the victims of our own actions
Like bullets across the sky, As the day’s end draws nigh. We walk on. The blanket overhead stripped of colour;
its greyness sneering with contempt, Its hues of blue erased from memory. The biting cold pierces the soul like a sharpened dagger,
It shows no mercy with its embrace, Banishing the warmth in disgrace. We walk on.
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