Out of this World...
In a previous Newsletter we wrote about the Lit and Phil Young Writers Competition. Well, fourteen entries from Year 7 were submitted. On Wednesday all the entrants went to the Lit and Phil to find out the winners, and GEMS won not once, not twice, but three times! Samaha won the fiction category, Freya K. the non-fiction category and Katie P. was runner up.
We though that you might like to read one of the entries just to get an idea of the quality of the work produced. Here is Charlie’s poem in response to this year’s theme ...Journey.
The Voyagers
It’s nineteen seventy-seven,
Two rockets soaring to heaven,
A planetary procession,
From the planetary precession,
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune,
Aligned perfectly, once in a blue moon.
An astounding delight,
Watching the rockets, heat and light,
Slowly rising, mesmerizing,
Into the night, out of sight,
Towards the giants,
In their world of silence.
Over the passage of time…
Jupiter looms slowly, sublime,
Europa, her moon,
Icy, immune,
Next the slingshot,
And the receding red spot.
Further on they go,
Guided by radio,
More distant Titans,
Human expectation heightens,
Past Saturn, ring after ring,
By Uranus and Neptune, they swing.
Now they take flight,
Through the weakening starlight,
Toward the dark, this latter-day ark,
Into the deep,
Going to sleep,
In the eternal cold, disc shining gold.
Born a generation before I,
To charge to the sky,
And millennia hence,
Reveal mankind to friends
Hostile? or peaceful? although,
probably, I’ll never know.
What we particularly like in Charlie’s poem is some of the very evocative images … we loved ‘the latter-day ark’...and his clever manipulation of rhyme—using full, half and internal rhyme. Well done Charlie!
The Winners
In a previous Newsletter we wrote about the Lit and Phil Young Writers Competition. Well, fourteen entries from Year 7 were submitted. On Wednesday all the entrants went to the Lit and Phil to find out the winners, and GEMS won not once, not twice, but three times! Samaha won the fiction category, Freya K. the non-fiction category and Katie P. was runner up.
We thought that you might like to read one of the entries just to get an idea of the quality of the work produced. Here is Charlie’s poem in response to this year’s theme ...Journey.
The Voyagers
It’s nineteen seventy-seven,
Two rockets soaring to heaven,
A planetary procession,
From the planetary precession,
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune,
Aligned perfectly, once in a blue moon.
An astounding delight,
Watching the rockets, heat and light,
Slowly rising, mesmerizing,
Into the night, out of sight,
Towards the giants,
In their world of silence.
Over the passage of time…
Jupiter looms slowly, sublime,
Europa, her moon,
Icy, immune,
Next the slingshot,
And the receding red spot.
Further on they go,
Guided by radio,
More distant Titans,
Human expectation heightens,
Past Saturn, ring after ring,
By Uranus and Neptune, they swing.
Now they take flight,
Through the weakening starlight,
Toward the dark, this latter-day ark,
Into the deep,
Going to sleep,
In the eternal cold, disc shining gold.
Born a generation before I,
To charge to the sky,
And millennia hence,
Reveal mankind to friends
Hostile? or peaceful? although,
probably, I’ll never know.
What we particularly like in Charlie’s poem is some of the very evocative images … we loved ‘the latter-day ark’...and his clever manipulation of rhyme—using full, half and internal rhyme. Well done Charlie!