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Judge’s Comment<br />
A poem of contrasts, with the beauty of velvet, honey and blushes<br />
contrasted with the bittersweet of dust, rust and decay and the final<br />
chilling line.<br />
Katherine MISKIN, 14<br />
Merewether High School<br />
BROADMEADOW NSW<br />
Lighthouse<br />
When the gravestone grey waters<br />
swirl with an evil menace<br />
and crash against the hulls of creaking, wooden ships<br />
you will guide the way to safety<br />
lighthouse.<br />
And the wind whips up in a fury<br />
battering against the portholes<br />
crying out eerily with the voice of tortured mermaids<br />
you will show the way to shore<br />
lighthouse.<br />
When the sodden flags crack<br />
against the dripping masts<br />
and the ropes swell with the seawater<br />
you will guide the way to safety<br />
lighthouse.<br />
When the sky cracks and fizzles<br />
bearing down upon the tiny, toy-like ships<br />
and a shot of lightening crackles across the clouds<br />
you will show the way to shore
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