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Joanna LOUDON, 12<br />
St Andrews Lutheran College<br />
TALLEBUDGERA QLD<br />
In the Army<br />
Cold, hard armour<br />
Bangs together<br />
Guns and swords<br />
Encased in leather<br />
Metal boots<br />
Thudding past<br />
Horses gallop<br />
Lightning fast<br />
Cannons fire<br />
And men crouch down<br />
Cover their bodies<br />
With green and brown<br />
Scars are left<br />
Tears are shed<br />
A constant memory<br />
Of the men now dead<br />
Judge’s Comment<br />
The rhythm of this poem has echoes of a battlefield march. In a relatively<br />
few words, the poet captures the movement, mayhem and sadness of<br />
battlefields past and present.<br />
Tessa MILLS, 15<br />
Orana Steiner School<br />
WESTON CREEK ACT<br />
Landscape<br />
A languid red sky, smeared with dirt.<br />
The ground below is honey smooth rust<br />
and bittersweet shrubberies.<br />
The blushing rocks moan, cracked and crumbling.<br />
Velvet decay perfumes the air,<br />
and Death is sticky on the horizon.
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