To mark National Poetry Day earlier this month, Year 8 students wrote poems on the theme of ‘truth’. There were some remarkable entries which impressed all the staff who helped to judge. The shortlist of ten was eventually whittled down to 3 joint winners and 7 runners up.
Well done to all of them.
This was written by one of the winners…
In lies there is truth
Like a tangle of threads
Scattered across the world
Twisted by speech and tormented by time
They flood from tears of fiction
And are spoken from fear
Strangling and struggling in a circle
Here the truth is hidden amongst them
Bright against the festering darkness of lies
Black and white that merge
Commanded by tongues and lips
A blessing and a curse
Open and closed
Like secrets behind stories
Fiction an elaborate tapestry of love and hatred
Light and dark
An unbroken story
Never ending
Never beginning
Always there
