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27th November 2020
Hi
Somebody just sent me a link to this blogpost about your students writing their own special poetry about Remembrance, inspired by a poem I wrote called We Remember – and I just wanted to say thank you to the staff and children for all their reading, thinking and writing about Remembrance. I couldn’t read all of the poems on the display … but what I could read was incredibly moving, with vivid images and a very clever use of language.
It’s a real privilege to see that children are engaging with the poem and with Remembrance. Thank you.
Best wishes
Laura
We Remember
Why do you droop, Sweet Gum?
We remember the demolished buildings,
The collapsing houses,
Bang-bang.
Why are you silent, Sweet Gum?
We remember the screaming guns, and
The booming tanks,
The falling trees,
Crash-crash.
Why do you groan, Sweet Gum?
We remember the shouting and crying,
The whining of propellers,
Breaking-breaking.
Why do you creak, Sweet Gum?
We remember the lost families,
The crying babies,
Shouting-shouting.
Taha
The trembling of buildings
The fear in my heart as the tanks
were shooting.
The whizzing of planes
The stomping of the soldiers boots,
The quaking of the ground,
The bombs dropped down.
The screaming of voices
The thudding of feet
The chattering of teeth
As the soldiers stood in fear
Mohammed
We Remember
Why do you droop roses?
We remember the sounds of crying.
The crashing of bombs.
Crash-crash-crash.
Why are you silent roses?
We remember the crashing, slashing, shouting, thrashing, screaming, soldiers.
Screaming-screaming
Why do you groan roses?
We remember tanks of gunshots
The death of soldiers
Crying-crying.
Why do you creak roses?
We remember,
Demand of peace and the grief nation.
Hating-Hating.
Amaan I.
We Remember
Why do you droop Snowy Mespilus?
We remember the sounds of distraction,
The booming gun shots.
Shooting-shooting.
Why do you groan Snowy Mespilus?
We remember the red, oozing blood,
Windows shattering.
Smashing-smashing.
Why are you silent Snowy Mespilus?
We remember the sacrifice of the soldiers,
The loves ones don’t come back.
Crying-crying.
Why do you creak Snowy Mespilus?
We remember bombs, booming,
Lonely, upset families crying.
Bang-Bang
We remember,
all to clearly,
all too often,
we weep because others forget.
Musab
We Remember
Why do you droop Sweet Gums?
We remember the oozing and wounding of the blood streaming and declaring at their death,
the screams of terror.
Pour-pour.
Why are you silent Sweet Gums?
We remember the children screaming
The buildings clashing and thrashing
Bang-bang.
Why do you groan, Sweet Gums?
We remember the lashings of bombs, and people, destroying and gunshots shooting.
Boom-boom.
We remember
All to clearly, all too often.
We weep because others forget.
Amelia
We Remember
Why do you droop poppies?
We remember the sound of loud shouting,
The crashing of bombs,
Crash crash.
Why are you silent poppies?
We remember the dead soldiers,
The thunderous gun shots,
Crying crying.
Why do you groan poppies?
We remember the broken buildings,
The colossal terrifying tank.
Clang clang.
Why do you creak poppies?
We remember the blood,
People screaming with terror,
Screaming screaming.
We remember
All too clearly, all too often
We weep because others forget.
Dominic