Congratulations to Sarah in Year 11 and Zoe in Year 9 who are the winners of the recent LRC National Poetry Day competition. They were asked to write a poem based on one of the pieces of art on display in the LCR and we were blown away by the standard of their poems! We’ve published their poems below.
14 Years by Zoe
My 14 years are painted
Across my skin,
Brushstrokes by an angry artist,
Tattooing tales in ink and blood
And every shade of every colour,
Building me from shapes and perspective,
Of light and shadow,
To crawl across my surface.
My 14 years are branded
Across my skin,
Gouges of paint through my skull and down my arms,
Digging into me,
Pulling me from my shadows, and I
Cannot change my past,
The canvas on which so much were thrown.
My 14 years are set
In my skin.
Everything I know and knew
And learnt and lost,
Weeping in lines of scarlet and aquamarine,
Crimson lake, buttercup strokes,
Portraying the layers of life that I have lived through,
Acrylics set hard,
Caked across my
14 years.
Trapped by Sarah
Trapped in a frame with nowhere to run,
No one to bear the weight of a ton,
The words that claw at my face,
Deepening the scars they leave in place.
I pull and I fight,
But again, I am alone at night.
Destined to keep locked away,
As people smile in the time of play.
I am trapped alone,
Longing to feel as though I am known.
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