National Poetry Day is the annual mass celebration on the first Thursday of October that encourages everyone to make, experience and share poetry with family and friends. Each year we come together because voices, words and stories help to bridge understanding in our community.
This year, National Poetry Day was on Thursday 6 October 2022 and the theme was The Environment.
Each pupil who wanted to participate had to write a poem about the environment and share it with the class.
The poem below is from Clara, who is in Year 11 and is our Middle School Poet Laureate:
Why Did it All Go Away?
Vivacious blooms of marigolds,
Clear streams running on lovely yet cold.
Fields abuzz with songs of crickets,
Mother earth’s only film without tickets.
Only twice did I trail my fingers along,
The velvet grass swaying in the wind’s hushed song.
As I inhaled the sweet scent a mere second time,
Mother nature rang her final chime.
Vivacious blooms crushed underfoot,
Dim rivers imbued by vile black soot.
Only shrill screeches stuck in the field’s harsh air,
Scorched wheat clambered for heaven’s first stair.
So you ask, my child, why it all went away?
It was the ignorance, my child, that led them astray.