Poetry Competition 2021
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We were delighted to receive around 50 entries for the 2021 poetry competition. A good time was had by all the judging panel.
Lucy Chambers, Chiswick Book Festival Children’s Events Coordinator and judge for the CBF Young People’s Poetry Competition said:
"It is a great privilege to be a judge once again for the Blossom Day Poetry Competition. I loved the interesting imagery children used to describe nature, cherry blossom, the local area and the potential impact of climate change. It is wonderful to get an insight into how children view the world through poetry. Congratulations to the prize-winners and to everyone who entered the competition.”
Susan Lee Kerr, Grove Park poet, and author of the book "The Walk Home" said:
Thank you to all the young poets for your many views of earth and spring. You have a passion for the environment and an impressive concern for our planet. The poems showed close observation, awareness and humour using interesting words, stanzas, rhyme and repetition. Some of them could be raps! May you thrive and flower like the Staveley Road cherry blossom trees.
John Keegan said:
'I really enjoyed the young people's poems - they were imaginative, well written and committed to the future of our planet.'
Many thanks to Sally Malin for organising the competition.
This year's winners are:
Winning poems Year 2 Poem winner - Ariana - Fairies in spring Year 5 Poem winner - Aadya - Alive Year 6 Poem winners: Amber - The Giants We Can Be Michael - A Rubbish Poem Rozita - Our Dying Planet Alice - Dear Future Residents Egrata - Dear Earth Madison - You took me away Martha - The Years Fly By |
Winning haiku Florence - The Seasons of Japan Haiku
Highly commended poems Martha - Problems Donna - From my eyes
Highly commended haiku Donel - The Seasons of Japan Haiku Lily - The Seasons of Japan Haiku Owen - The Seasons of Japan Haiku |
Winning poems |
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Year 2 Poem winner Ariana - Fairies in spring |
Year 5 Poem winner Aadya - Alive |
Year 6 poem winners: Amber - The Giants We Can Be |
Michael - A Rubbish Poem |
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Rozita - Our Dying Planet | Alice - Dear Future Residents |
Egrata - Dear Earth |
Madison - You took me away |
Martha - The Years Fly By |
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Winning Haiku Florence - The Seasons of Japan Haiku |
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Highly commended poems |
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Martha - Problems |
Donna - From my eyes |
Highly commended haiku | |
Donel - The Seasons of Japan Haiku |
Lily - The Seasons of Japan Haiku |
Owen - The Seasons of Japan Haiku | |