Dear Charlie,
Here are the poems written by our 2de students for the first Asiba poetry competition.
Impressive, isn't it?
It's no easy feat to select one to represent the Seconde class.
Could you help me?
Please vote for your two favorite poems (posting a comment on the blog or sending me an email)
Beware, the voting closes on April 10 at 4:00 p.m!
Beware, poem 2 does not qualify because the poem cannot exceed 20 lines and/or 60 words. But I'm sharing it because I find it beautiful.
Poem 1: WINNER
In the endless night dipped in dark ink
I could see numerous sparkles, shining bubbles
Yellow, green, blue, purple, red and pink.
Flying landscapes of my memories, a struggle
Between the cloudy sky hiding a field of ice
And the mountains covered in pine trees and green
grass.
The deep blue sea and the light rocks of the dry
plains.
All melting into a perfect painting.
Some darker spots come along, cluttering like stains
To join the dance of remembering.
Poem 2:
Patches
of illusions
Behind the curtain appeared a
mountain,
Whose limits seemed blurred by
the plain.
From the mist, falling all
parallels,
Gravels, part of a birth, like
the rain.
How the mountain from the clouds,
Grew to weigh upon the crowds
Or how it finished displayed,
lost,
Sinking in the sea, from Now
to ghost.
Rest of Images with halo of
mysticism
Thin and striking as flashing
thunders,
Intense and possessing as
roaring waves.
Vagueness as a part of lyricism.
The reminiscence of an eternal
past
Circling upon reality
Consistant, perpetual, vast,
Casting doubts on duality.
A recollection of
symbols,
Given sense out of emotions
Objects subjects to paraboles
From pieces into proportions
Trans-
Form-
Oceans.
Listen to the stillness.
Feel the nothingness.
All skeletons of living
shadows
Imprisoned in a dimension of
movements
May the sky even float
On this sea like a boat
As time is passing through
You, sitting in a car,
catching
Glimpses of a vivid world
That has surreptitiously
already gone.
Poem 3
A memory
You can
watch hundreds of movies
And read
thousands of stories
You can
visit hundreds of places
And
imagine smells and noises
But you
can’t take their memories
Their
pain, their bliss and their wishes
Pieces of
old lives which have left
But still
there in our minds, our regrets
Our shame
and our demons
Our
mistakes and our ghosts
Our
hell-fired History
Our
common patrimony
The unerasable side of Humanity.
Poem 4
Industrial memories
Memory spaces are made all
the time.
They're made in factories,
They're sold in shops with labels on them,
Five hundred gigabytes, a terabyte or two,
Disks and hard drives, sticks and cards,
All can store, all can remember.
We rely on them, we rely on photos and videos,
They remember for us, they remember everything we tell them,
When we just forget.
Poem 5:
In this beautiful world,
terrible things happened.
November 11th is a special day
To honor and never forget
the people who died in wars
We created Remembrance day.
Significant of a lot of pain,
but also hope, relief and
reconstruction.
Hope that this anamnesis
teaches the future generation,
to never repeat the mistakes
that caused their ancestor.
Poem 6:
I remember seing
you for the first time
I got lost in your eyes
I was hypnotized by your gaze
I was carried away by the sound off your
voice
Your blue eyes were deep and magical like the sea
Your voice was a sweet caress to my ears
When you looked at me my heart rushed my and eyes
glittered
When you first took me in your arms I never wanted
to leave you again
Being in your arms is like a baby in her mother's
arms.
Poem 7:
1918
War is hell
War is violence
Nonsense
War is crime
War is death
Depressing
Mothers crying
Children weeping
Sad
Hate
Suffering
Misery
Victory
Freedom
Peace
Happiness
Lest we forget
Here's the one selected to represent the Premières:
A warrior’s last strike
She was feeling her last breath
Going down to her lungs.
She was feeling her heart beat
For the very last time.
She was gripping her sword
And blood dipped from her hands
And then she closed her eyes.
She was back in her home where she always felt safe
She remembered it all :
The well in which she threw cherry blossoms in spring
The rivers where she swam naked, during summer
And the great bonfire that kept her from winter
Even the tree that waved like the sea, during fall
When she opened her eyes, she saw her sword shining
And she was standing up facing her greatest fear
And it was with her past torrenting through her hands
That she thrusted her sword through the barbarian's throat.
And then there was nothing.
Here's a reminder of the rules below!
ASIBA POETRY
COMPETITION RULES
Remembrance
1.
The competition is open to lycées preparing students for the OIB
(British option) who are full members of ASIBA
- The theme of the competition for 2015 is ''Remembrance''
- You may enter one poem for every 20 students in 3ème,
2nde, 1ère and Terminale in your section.
- Poems should not exceed 20 lines and/or 160 words.
- Poems should be typed in Times New Roman typeface
- Please save each poem as a separate A4 page in .pdf format.
- Poems should be listed on the school entry form
attached, with the poet's name and class.
- Each poem should have its title and number clearly
marked at the top, but no other details (do not include the author's
name, school etc)
- Please send all the poems as attached documents by email to asibapoetrycomp15@gmail.com accompanied by the completed
school entry form. We will
confirm receipt of the poems.
10. Entries must
be forwarded by the designated teacher in each school.
11.
Prizes of books donated by W.H. Smith will be awarded at each
lycee level, Seconde, Premiere and Terminale and at Troisième level in Collège.
12.
You cannot send amendments or further drafts once your poems have
been submitted. Once submitted, poems
cannot be revised or re-submitted in other forms.
13.
The closing date for
submission of poems is Friday April 10th 2015
14.
The initial judging period
opens on Monday May 11th 2015
and closes on June 1st 2015.
Judging panels will be comprised of volunteer members of the OIB / ASIBA
community.
15.
No panel will contain
judges from the same school. Panels will
not judge poems from their own schools.
16.
Each panel will draw up a
shortlist to be forwarded to the overall adjudicator.
17.
Winners will be announced
by the overall adjudicator on June 22nd.
18.
The designated teacher in
each school will be informed of the results.
19.
The decision of the judges is final and incontestable and no
correspondence will be entered into.
20.
You cannot use a pen name or enter poems for or on behalf of
another person, living or dead. You cannot submit entries as the guardian or
parent of the author.
21.
Entries must not have been previously published or submitted for
publication or for other competitions.
22.
The poem must be the original work of the entrant submitting it.
By entering the competition, entrants warrant and undertake to the organisers
that (i) their work is original (ii) does not contain any third party copyright
material or quotes without appropriate permission having been obtained and
identified to the organisers when the entry is submitted.
23.
Poets submitting their own original material for the
competition retain copyright to their work but will be deemed to have given
unconditional permission for its publication including authorship to promote or
publicise ASIBA or W.H. Smith.
24. Entrants will
be deemed to have accepted these rules and to agree to be bound by them when
entering the competitions.
