POETRY COMPETITION FINAL CHOICE URGENT

Dear Charlie,
I am to send the poems for the poetry competition tomorrow.
First of all, many thanks to the  OIB poets who contributed.
Could you &  the OIB community (Teachers & students) help me choose which poem to send?
I'm warning you this is no easy choice. Our poets are very talented.

SELECTION 1 POEM TO REPRESENT THE PREMIERE AND TERMINALE STUDENTS

POEM 1

Stone by stone they built me up, with shards of metal spiking up

I lied strong under the starry sky

And as the hot pale globe rose

Began the massage, the dance

Now I'm old and I remember :

Those children crawling on my back

Now they've been replaced by crust and dust and plants

And just like me they disappear, my

World is crumbling, myself

I've lived my life but now…

In this forest, where I was born

I recognize nothing, I forgot all

I am only an old bridge crumbling down.

 

POEM 2

Drowsy steps

All sounds confuse to found

A fluid melody

From whose timbres confound

To flow mellifluously

One step on the Bridge

From the whistling wind

Pounding on the outside

To the steady breathing

Rhythm of the other side

One more step on the Bridge

To the curtain of mist

Thickening in the mind

Spreading through the body

In your veins like blood and then

One step further on the Bridge

Appear some images

Patches of illusion

And all of a sudden

A dream rises

One last step on the Bridge.

POEM 3

Over water and over land

They hang.

They symbolize greatness,

Elegance, change,

But few are the people

Who see them

For what they are.

Few are the people,

Who in bridges

Will see brick, metal,

Or the calculations

Put into every square inch

Of these man-made paths.

SELECTION 1 POEM TO REPRESENT THE SECONDE STUDENTS

POEM 1:

The old rainbow

The sun is rising slowly, hidden

behind this monument of another time.

When the sunlight caresses him, my raining days are forgotten,

but he is always white-faced especially at wintertime with his coat of icing rimes.

From the bottom, he looks massive.

Bystanders are crossing him, tired, pressed and impassive,

Tarnished by the years and yet sublime,

He is the witness of the passing of time.

Now that the sun has disappeared to let

The darkness live, the stars are shining for him,

The milky way has laid down on him,

While I'm listening to the babbling brook, the silence's threat.

No bystanders anymore, only me and my loneliness,

Silently shouting in that peaceful hell.

The shadow of the thousand-year-old structure is trying to swell,

To protect me from the ghosts of the night, I'm fearless.

Either with the painted sun or with the blue moon,

I'm here, like a root of the Earth, seing the stream of tears,

And his roof like a rainbow, linking the two edges of the river,

Like a vein linking the heart to the head, the Bridge.

POEM 2

Bridges of Love.

When I'm thinking too much

and my head is too full

too dark

too deep

and I wonder about life and anxiety.

When I am felling dark and twisted

Anger in my head

Eager to get on the other side of my sorrow

The bridges we build help me get through

the black hole

of loneliness.

I won't fall into the water

underneath my feet, only sweet memories

Like a cloud fill with drops of love

It's a path made of our tenderness

When I'm feeling blue

Tears filling my eyes

Can't see where I'm heading

Lost in my scary thoughts

Bonds in my head help me

and when I'm on our bridges nothing can get me.

There is a secret bond, a felling between us,

Hope I won't fall and forget

Cause without your love

I will sink in my sea.

Vote asap for your favorite poem in each category.

Thank you!!

Mrs. C.

Thank you for all your votes on the blog and by email. I've just highlighted the poems finally chosen. It was very close.