Dunedin Youth Poetry Competition

Congratulations to Year 9 student Anabel Rutlege, who won 2nd place in the 

Dunedin Youth Poetry Writing Competition for Y9-10.

Anabel is making amazing gains in Literacy and achieved 50/50 in the first NZ Spelling Bee competition, earning her a place in the semi-finals with several other Trinity students.

Anabel read her poem at the awards ceremony last Friday.

He waits

With his fathomless blanket

Ready to smother the earth

And take over the sun's reign.

He is the night.

He draws closer

Draping his blanket slowly over the world

And as the sun sinks into the horizon

He rules.

He is the night.

He pulls his blanket

Over this colourful marble

Clothing it in inky blackness

Impossible to find your way home.

He is the night.

He watches

As the world turns off its lights

Embraces the darkest of darkness

And goes to rest.

He is the night.

He sighs 

As the sun's fingers pull it into the sky

And he must take his dusky blanket

And retreat, once more, to make room for the day.

He is the night.