Last term, for the 2020 Independent Schools Association (ISA) poetry competition, students were asked to submit poems entitled ‘Everything All At Once’. Our IGCSE students produced some wonderful work covering a range of topics from relationships and love to Christmas and COVID-19. We were really impressed by their creativity and by the powerful images they used in their writing. Hailey and Angela were praised by the organisers for crafting short and personal poems – congratulations both!
Here are their poems:
I am not asking for permission
To go back to the past
I am not waiting for the future
It will come very soon
My feet are in the mud
My head is in the sun
So give me all of it
Give it to me all at once
So give me all of it
Everything all at once
I will dominate my present
Not the past
By Angela
Everything all at once
I dreamt you yesterday.
We are sitting on the floor
Watching the sunset
Turn into a sunrise.
You rise.
You are flying under the light.
Someone is leading you.
You leave me alone.
I open my eyes.
You disappear.
Only crystals left on my face, silent and glistening
Where are you?
By Hailey
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