POETRY WRITING COMPETITION

TOTAL DEFENCE WEEK :11th-15th Feb 08

Several activities have been planned for Total Defence Week 2008. The first is the Poetry Writing Competition.

POETRY WRITING COMPETITION

Objectives :

1. Encourage students to do research on war.

2.Encourages students to use their senses and develop a fresh approach to writing, with an emphasis on imagination and attention to detail.

•Minimum length of poem: 4-5 stanzas
•Each stanza should contain 4 to 5 lines
•Preferably every alternate line should rhyme
•Message: war, death at war, causes and consequences of war, the negative side of war
•Emotions: your feelings about war and its aftermath
•Deadline for submission: 04th Feb 08
•Teachers to submit to: Mdm Santhi, Mrs Francis Ess, Mrs Nathan, Mrs David.

Here are a war poem for you to read.

I cannot quite remember…There were five
Dropped dead beside me in the trench…and three
Whispered their last messages to me…
Back from the trenches, more dead than alive.
Stone-deaf and dazed, and with a broken knee,
He hobbled slowly,muttering vacantly:

I cannot quite remember…There were five
Dropped dead beside me in the trench…and three
Whispered their dying messages to me…
Their friends and waiting, wondering how they thrive
Wading a word in silence patiently…
But what they said, or who their friends may be …

I cannot quite remember…there were five
Dropped dead beside me in the trench-and three
Whispered their dying messages to me…”