Kilvington Writer's Festival

Spotlight on Year 7 poet Emily Xu

Each year, the School hosts the Kilvington Writer’s Festival. 

We are pleased to congratulate Year 7 student Emily Xu, whose poems were shortlisted as finalists in the Junior section.

Poem 1 - Embers (haiku) 

A small spark, nothing 

Burning brighter, charring woods 

Can you see me now? 

Poem 2 — Pond(cinquain) 

calm     hushed 

soothing lulling deceiving 

but what lurks beneath these murky waters? 

Sinkhole 

Poem 3 — Risk-taker (free verse) 

Forever, the tides rush us towards the sea 

To have a vast navy quilt 

Thrown over us. 

Our rolling waves, Proud azure — Restricted; 

A blanket crease. 

Yet she, that silently observes 

In the midst of our tumbling wake shakes her head in dismay. 

The gulf, 

The peril, 

She sees it all. 

Yet she, that silently observes 

In the midst of our crashing wake arise, a tsunami amongst billions of ripples.