Heritage Poems 75 - Guernsey schools' poetry competition
This year, 2020, celebrates 75 years of liberation from the Occupation of the Nazis during World War two on the Island of Guernsey. A poetry competition was held asking Guernsey school students to write poems about the experience during Occupation and the joy of Liberation after 5 years (World War 2). Students from schools across the island talked to their grandparents and learnt about how it affected family members. They submitted poems which were judged by local sixth form students studying English. Online voting was used to identify an overall winner from the nine finalists. Students also had the opportunity to read out their poems on Radio Guernsey in the JKT show.
This year, 2020, celebrates 75 years of liberation from the Occupation of the Nazis during World War two on the Island of Guernsey. A poetry competition was held asking Guernsey school students to write poems about the experience during Occupation and the joy of Liberation after 5 years (World War 2). Students from schools across the island talked to their grandparents and learnt about how it affected family members. They submitted poems which were judged by local sixth form students studying English. Online voting was used to identify an overall winner from the nine finalists. Students also had the opportunity to read out their poems on Radio Guernsey in the JKT show.
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Finalist
Time after Time Zoe Collins
The day had come; war had started,
I could taste fear in the air.
The guns were already shooting.
I was four, my parents told me,
to get packed for a journey.
I had only packed a few things
before the sun was no more.
People were queuing at the harbour,
Screaming at the boats, babies bawling.
Mum took me to the teacher.
I was taken away,
I never saw her again for years to come.
The next moment I can remember
was on a rocking boat sailing
away from my beloved Guernsey
and my parents.
I didn't know what the soldiers
would do to them.
My teacher was as strict as ever.
I was so downhearted to see the island
disappearing from my sight.
After five years of German
occupation I finally came home.
But I hardly recognised
those strangers who were my family.
“The years of darkness and danger in which the children of our country have grown up are over, and, please
God, for ever.”
King George VI 1945
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