YR 9 FIRE MONSTER - SUCCESS
You may remember in a previous newsletter we published Year 9's Jacob Ambrose's poem Fire Monster. Jacob entered it in the Write 4 Fun competition and has received an Achievement Award in recognition of successfully completing the first round of judging! This means he is in the running for first prize which will be drawn 24th June. The really good news is that Jacob has had an offer to be published in the book The Inside Story, which will have many stories and poems from students all over Australia. Congratulations Jacob we are very proud of you.
- Fran Clarke, Secondary English
Fire Monster
I wake extra early to a chaotic scene,
The stench of smoke fills my nostrils, the thickest it’s been.
The sky is glowing red and the smoke is hanging thick,
This unrelenting monster is getting close and travelling quick.
It’s burnt the local pine plantation and heading for our town,
We must evacuate this morning and head to safer ground.
Our modest country town is deserted and forlorn,
Only the brave remain behind to fight this firestorm.
Fierce, flaming fireballs are fed by the ferocious gusts,
I see fear in my parents faces, how will we adjust?
I pray harder than ever that our town will be spared,
But my faith is being tested, despite being well prepared.
It’s a battle for survival, a fight that’s hard to win,
But we are a strong, united community and unwilling to give in.
In the months to come, we will revive,
All that matters, for now, is that we survive.
