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I wish they‟d snapped a candid shot<br />
Of every flaw and beauty spot<br />
For now your laugh, your smile, your voice<br />
Are bits of you that I forgot<br />
Oh take me back to golden sand<br />
And running, swimming, hand in hand<br />
When every dusk was ours alone<br />
And every night was grand<br />
Although you loved me, kept me calm<br />
And never dreamed to curse or harm<br />
Your legacy is three by three<br />
It fits within my palm<br />
I hold my memories of the past<br />
So small and flat and fading fast<br />
And wish that photo of us, posed<br />
Would not have been our last<br />
Judge’s Comment<br />
A well-constructed poem with a beautiful rhythm<br />
Tom Hawthorne<br />
Kincumber High School<br />
KINCUMBER NSW<br />
I Sit Here<br />
I look out to sea as the sun sets in vibrant colours of red and orange, no...<br />
The wind blows like god‟s sweep of a brush sweeping destruction, no...<br />
I search my mind thinking about ways to start off a poem but...<br />
I just end up with a bin overflowing with scraps of words<br />
I sit here playing percussion on my desk,<br />
tapping and tapping and tapping but nothing comes to mind<br />
This is just a distraction<br />
I have gnawed the end of my pencil to a point like a beaver<br />
A pin drops and rattles loudly on the large wooden desk<br />
As I sit here I register the sound of bush turkeys rustling in the backyard<br />
I know that they would've taken half the garden out<br />
As I day dream for what seems like a minute or two when half an hour has<br />
passed<br />
The longer I sit the more things I notice about this plain room<br />
I sit here for hours in this room that is as white as a snow cave, like someone<br />
has dipped it in a bucket of white paint<br />
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