Year 9 Poerty
What inspires us...
Year 9 Poerty
What inspires us...
Students were asked to write a poem about either an important place, themselves, or any topic for which they had felt a strong connection. We had some amazing submissions.
By Maryam Hasaan
The mats beaten and blood soaked,
During the day it’s as silent as the dead,
When night hits sound is booming,
Bodies slamming and hitting the ground,
People screaming,
Bodies flying,
Sweat pouring,
Blood dripping,
Snap, crackle and pop is the code we live by,
At night you hear sounds of slamming,
During the day the sound of silence,
These mats have been scarred and beaten,
By peoples bodies hitting it at high speeds and great heights,
These mats have heard sounds of pain and victory,
Felt the shock of slamming and dropping from an advanced throw set,
As the night grows so do the sounds of slamming bodies,
As the senior grades enter their katar,
Bodies fly further,
The sounds get louder,
The throws get deadlier,
As the night grows so does the level of violence in these mats,
The weapons come out to play,
And the moves get more advanced and complicated,
Koshes start hitting skulls,
And bokens start to chop at your head,
The less they move the more blood there is,
Move, move, move that's the number 1 rule
If you can’t move you won’t survive,
Once the clock strikes 9,
The sounds of violence end,
The bodies stop dropping,
The screams sece,
And the silence seeps in,
And the mats wait in silence for one whole week,
too feel the shock of bodies again.
By Maryam Hasaan
A cold-warm* pillow embraces me
My lungs sit still while my heart races
The call grows deeper as I fall weaker
Is she coming? I wonder
After all these years
Is she the one?
To fulfil the missing piece
From the chaos, my world has become
I have lost the sense of touch and taste
The pillow seems to be getting colder
My warmth disappearing below my waist
But the heat building above my shoulder*
Am I even human?
I feel light as a feather
But tight as leather
I feel lost but free
As if thousands of bricks have been lifted off me
What is that sound?
My body naturally follows its call
Her call is loud
As if she if it’s wanting to be found
At least down here
I’m far from the gods above
The gods That have failed me
Let me bleed while they rose to victory
The gods, all bend knees for
They sacrifice their lives for
I used to strive to please
The God they used to adore
Until they abandoned me
Is this their plan?
Is this my fate
Is this God’s will
Is this what I’ve been waiting for
Am I never going to be saved?
This misty cloud
Where I lay
Makes a new world
Far from reality
At last away from the world I know
I begin to slowly rest
The woman's song on repeat in my head
my mind finally slows down to rest
In my moment of comfort
I couldn’t feel the sharp bronze knife
That grazed over my skin
Allowing the liquid to ooze out of me
To steal another lonely life*
A scream pierced the bitter black beautiful* night
As the mist slowly started to clear out
Soon I was able to see what it was from
The siren who bled, beside me
Mountain bike, mountain bike
Getting out and going for a ride,
Speeding past the trees
The crunch of sticks snapping underneath you
Grip hard in descents,
Mountain bike, mountain bike
Breeze splashing on your face
Giving you a welcome to the trail,
Suspension clapping
On a hard rocky surface
Going around the berm
With flow,
Mountain bike, mountain bike
The sound of rocks
Crumbling under your tires,
Sound of chain
Smacking your frame
While descending down
A steep rocky surface,
Preparing for a jump
Reposition your feet
Tensing your body
For the worse,
Then in the matter of seconds,
A rattle racers up your body on impact
With a joy of excitement
Of completion
But also looking back
Wondering if there's a flat rear tire
Mountain bike, mountain bike
School is fun
But the trails are begging,
Just waiting to get ridden,
Thinking about the flow
And the technical parts of a trail
Mountain Bike, Mountain Bike
Then in the matter of seconds,
A rattle racers up your body on impact
With a joy of excitement
Of completion
But also looking back
Wondering if there's a flat rear tire
Mountain bike, mountain bike
School is fun
But the the trails are begging,
Just waiting to get ridden,
Thinking about the flow
And the technical parts of a trail
Mountain Bike, Mountain Bike