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HIGHLY COMMENDED<br />
Tylah ANSON, 14<br />
Heywood & District <strong>Secondary</strong> College<br />
HEYWOOD VIC<br />
Rangly Dangly Sloth<br />
The wind is blowing through the trees<br />
The leaves are falling off<br />
The old and heavy branches are hanging<br />
Like a rangly, dangly sloth<br />
The rangly, dangly sloth<br />
Is very, very lost<br />
Like the leaves of a tree<br />
When they are falling off<br />
Judge’s Comment<br />
I read this poem several times during the judging process and each time<br />
it made me smile. It is simple yet cleverly wrought, with its comparison of<br />
the wind swept tree to a sloth, and vice-versa. The phrase ‘rangly dangly’<br />
seems perfectly suited to the movement and stature of the sloth.<br />
Niamh BELLICANTA, 13<br />
Hunter School Of The Performing Arts<br />
BROADMEADOW NSW<br />
Snapshots<br />
The rejuvenating waves<br />
rolled in from the sea as<br />
the sun blazed up above and<br />
the sand burned down below.<br />
Then the trees shed their leaves,<br />
their colours drifting downwards.<br />
The scarves quickly sold out<br />
in the usually silent shops and<br />
the sleet pelted relentlessly<br />
every single frozen day<br />
Everybody bought coffee
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