Aquarium Poetry Compition

Healthy Sea, Healthy people

Intermediate category

Wave-Thrashing

Fish-Bearing

Tsunami-Warnings

That is the rule of the sea

Litter-Within

Polluted-I am

Oil leaked-throughout

This is not what I choose, why does it have to be

Pulled-by rips

Sharks-I hold

People-fear

That is I who causes that, can’t I help, that’s just myself

You who ruins will be without a doubt the one causes the world to pay,

I will not mend myself so help me out,

Take good care of me,

You who are wise shall see,

For that is the rule of the sea.

By Ruby

In Room 1 and 2 we entered a writing competition for the National Aquarium of New Zealand. The theme was Healthy sea, Healthy people. My poem was partly a Kennings poem from the perspective of the sea. The criteria of the poems were that you had to have 400 hundred words or less and you had to reflect the the theme of the competition. The winners will be announced on Friday 2nd June and will read their poem at the reading evening on Thursday 8th June at 7 pm.