Year 7 Poetry Competition Winners

Year 7 are studying poetry as part of their English lessons and it is more about the skill of appreciating it than writing it.  However, Year 7s were given their chance to display their creative flair on a poem of something of substance or a controversial topic.

Katie won Priory’s voluntary homework poetry competition with a moving piece about her ancestor (see column right).

In her poem entitled ‘Mystery Man,’ Katie wrote about World War One.

“My great great great grandad fought in World War One and he was shot and left in No Man’s Land,” explained Katie.

“Some guy went to check and found my ancestor still alive and saved him. Without him I wouldn’t be here.”

Katie’s poem tells the story of her relation with poignant verse.

Second place went to Fatima who wrote about anxiety.

“I studied mental health in primary school so I know quite a lot about it,” said Fatima. “I want to do something involving mental health in the future.”

George came third and he wrote about animal extinction. “It’s something I am really interested in, I like the fact animals and humans live together on the planet and killing them off through things like poaching is wrong.”

Mystery Man by Katie 

The year was 1918,
left for dead was a whole team ,
of men who gave it their all,
It was all for a feat so tall,
and now there was nothing at all.

But one man, he survived,
on the floor he was still alive,
knowing he was going to die.
He lay there starting to cry,
with him, no one at all.

Back to camp, amongst all the cheering,
a mystery man started hearing,
a cry of a man so alone,
and knew that he must take him home.
He went into-no-mans-land.

Grabbed him by the legs did he,
when all of a sudden what did they see,
a bullet fly  past at the speed of sound
and all of a sudden they jumped to the ground.
Stuck in no-mans-land.

“Help us” screamed the mystery man,
and dropped down in a ditch of the land.
They ran as fast as the eye could see,
to where his friends were waiting for he.
The mystery man was saved.