Winning Poems

Enjoy some poems from the Year Level Winners in the LRC Poetry Competition

All of the winning and commended poems will be printed and available to borrow as a book from the LRC. In this edition, we are sharing the winning entries from our Senior Years writers.

Year 11 Winner: Sardar, G11

Confession

I witnessed gleam of light up there

The shining of stars, the brightness of a sun

I felt black in the darkness down here

The pain of scars, the noise of a gun

I saw candle and the sparks of phoenix 

In the eyes, in the minds, in the words

I held the animus of mine

In the blood, in the soul, in the heart

I healed but shredded in parts

Up the lap of sky, very high

I lived with the hopes like the flies

Who only fly, very high

I was precious they approved

I was special they praised

I am fruitless they confessed

Year 10 Winner: Mahdia, C10

Death...

I am always puzzled by it

Some say it is an angel, 

others say it is a demon

I think death is a man with a stone heart

But even a stone heart man has a centre of weakness

He seems to be good at hiding his.

He roams around freely but with a cost

The price of carrying a burden

A burden which he is always chained to

This burden is the grievous souls carried upon his shoulders

And death... is invisible

He has a shielded veil to conceal the hideousness he is

He created the world of black and grey

Where hopelessly lost beings rest assured of the unmerciful end

But now I will find out on my own

How brutal death can really be

My spirit gently drifting away from my form

I float into the abyss. 

waiting for death to come my way

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