To wrap up the Poetry Pentathlon for National Poetry Day, 2018, we held a poetry relay. Each team member added a line to the poem using techniques prompted by poet Gail Ingram.
Here are the results ( with a tiny amount of editing)
The Inversion
From a dull grey outside your true colours shine through
Wide wings unfurl from a crackling cocoon
Great flaps send shards to the ground, discarded
They’ll carry you far through the sky, never disenchanted
You fly and you fall
back to your cocoon.
The Lit Nerds, The School for Young Writers
Our Cheese Moon
My hand rolled over the knobbly grey surface
and BOOM
it grew into a moon
sized planet
Stars squeal over the moon as it goes to sleep
Now cackles fill a dark sky,
waking me.
The Huskies, Governors Bay School
I like Aliens
the sky’s blue reflects in his eyes
aliens act amazing
vvvvvvvv
a beam sucks up cows
the moon sees the mysterious beam
steal the cows.
I sit and watch, doing nothing to stop them
Chez, The School for Young Writers
Our teacher, Mrs Thompson
Happy and jolly and full of bright yellow
Kind and nice, she’s a great fellow
She shouts out instructions
The sunshine makes her smile bright
She has made us so happy all year
Especially on sad days
When she really cares.
Banks Avenue Team
The Green
A seed
of wonder, mystery
A fair fern
in a flutter of wind strengthens
Insects dance over the fronds
A seed of hope for the small.
XLJ, The School for Young Writers
The Recreational Rainbow
Red of fire lighting up the dark
Gracious green glitters greatly
Amidst the hedge there is a ‘pop’
The hedge shivers
Yet the sun still shines in the sky
St Albans School Team