
In readiness for National Poetry Day on the 6th October, our Year 7 and 8 pupils enjoyed a poetry workshop with writer Elizabeth Lewis Williams.
Focusing on this year’s National Poetry Day topic of ‘The Environment’, they devised their own poems featuring our local, indigenous environment and the wildlife that inhabits it. For our Year 8 children, loosestrife, the cliffs, the bittern and a tree at Covehithe all inspired some very beautiful verse:
I rise above others
Invade, conquer, ambush
Wearing a helmet of white and purple
I am loosestrife
Eleri, Year 8
I was born in the fens
By the ripple and dance of the water,
Rooted in decades
But stick close to my kin.
I am loosestrife
Gamar, Year 8
Home tumbles and slides away
Roots feel the winding wind
Crooked fingers grasp for life
Yasmine, Year 8. Inspired by a tree in Covehithe that is falling as a result of the cliff erosion.
Conqueror, I throw spears of pink
From the marshbeds
I rise to the top
I am loosestrife
Solomon, Year 8
Glide, sneak, strut
Through rippled water
Isobel, Year 8. The bittern
Stride, strut, trudge
Through stirring marshes
Amrita, Year 8. The bittern
Creep, prowl, slip
Through the maze
of reeds
Alexis, Year 8. The bittern
I dream of death
An end to my suffering
An end to my pain
William, Year 8. The tree at Covehithe