Brookfield students shine at the Poetry Promenade

I'm very pleased to be able to publish two new poems by Brookfield Community School students Madeline Wort and Emily Wagstaffe here on the blog. Madeline and Emily (pictured with me on the left) took part in some workshops I ran for Cape Farewell at Brookfield earlier this year, thinking about climate change issues and the natural world. Last Friday, they joined me in St Thomas' Cafe for the start of the Chatsworth Road Poetry Promenade and read their poems out. I hope you enjoy them as much as everyone in the cafe did!

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by Emily Wagstaffe:

Listen to the tree’s story

As the wind whispers to the leaves

And the bark taps back to the woodpecker.

The branches criss cross and argue

About who goes where

As the leaves express themselves

In their colours

The roots search under the soil

For their voices

Then it falls silent

When it blends in to the

Black night

Twit two

by Madeline Wort:

You’re happy

I’m sad

You make me frown

All you ever do

Is put me down

You’re nasty

You’re cruel

You make me look like a fool

You think it makes you look cool

So why is your final aim

To make me cry

At night I stare at the sky

Wondering why.