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English<br />
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To continue the excellent work put forward by the History and Music departments, the English<br />
department asked students from Years 7 to 10 to reflect on a variety of aspects of the war: through poetry!<br />
Each year was assigned a different poem title and each class was given the task of writing their own stanza<br />
and interpretation of the poem. From rhyming quatrains to blank verse monologues, the students’<br />
responses all echoed the haunting and tragic reality of conflict.<br />
The best lines from each class’ stanza were taken from and culminated in a ‘super poem’, read out at each<br />
Remembrance Day Service. We were incredibly impressed with the efforts of each and every student’s<br />
contribution – look out for displays of these poems outside the music department in the New Year!<br />
There But Not There<br />
A poem written by every student in Year 7<br />
Spine-chilling roars of the bullets,<br />
A hundred gunshots in a second,<br />
Screams and shouts are silenced by a shot<br />
About to take another life.<br />
Death filled the air<br />
My whole life flashed before my eyes<br />
What I saw was upsetting<br />
I really miss you.<br />
No, not this again. The screams would not stop.<br />
I lay there in bed, abandoned and felt dead.<br />
The traumatizing gunshots echo in my mind,<br />
I need to, but can’t, leave these vicious memories behind.<br />
Omnipresent, traumatized souls<br />
Are they there?<br />
My soul is gone, but my body remains<br />
Am I ghost?<br />
There but not there,<br />
They went to war and lost their life<br />
They paid the ultimate sacrifice<br />
For that…commemoration<br />
We give as a nation.<br />
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