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I sit here frustrated<br />
I sit here determined<br />
I sit here now with a poem.<br />
Judge’s Comment<br />
A good idea, well executed. Nice work!<br />
Jacqueline Krinda<br />
Merewether High School<br />
BROADMEADOW NSW<br />
Stamps<br />
I did not even realise<br />
my family had them:<br />
an album,<br />
faded but well cared for-<br />
Nazi State printed<br />
in typewriter letters<br />
on the cover.<br />
Inside, stamps line up<br />
in military formations,<br />
the Fuhrer's face<br />
and swastika greet me<br />
from every page-<br />
Deutsches Reich<br />
in curling letters<br />
and a yellowing<br />
perforated trim.<br />
In a darkened room<br />
under the lamp<br />
I can touch<br />
the paper that saw<br />
unimaginable things.<br />
the book<br />
on my desk haunts<br />
me.<br />
and I wonder what else<br />
about ourselves<br />
we do not know.<br />
Judge’s Comment<br />
A good feel for description and place<br />
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