Competition Entry

Winning Poem

The Middle Ages is my favourite time,
And as to why I will explain in this rhyme.
Overflowing adventure and history,
(Don’t forget to add in mystery!)
Most of the time victory,
Which could also end most bitterly.

Brave knight fighting on,
On until the dawn,
Maidens screaming surrender,
Awaiting their defender.
This is my world,
This is my love,
These are things bad guys want to get rid of.
But they will always fail,
And have to turn to bail,
For my world has a force,
Greater than armour or horse.
My world is supreme,
Sad,
Beautiful,
And everything in between.

Winning Poem

Robert Burns
Early time
In 1750

Tam o’ Shanter
To a mouse
My heart’s in the highlands

Lots of poems
Lots of songs
Great for a rainy day

Scotland, Ayr
In a White House
Lived Robert burns

Working in the fields
All day long
At night to sit down and write

Must have a good imagination
And a good brain
Lots of ideas

Good ideas
Expressing his feelings
Very optimistic

And writes
Very good
Poems

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Greek Gods, powerful Gods,
Zeus was the one who threw lightening rods,
Hades ruled the underworld,
Poseidon’s tail was always curled,
When he got angry he would make the ground shake,
Creating a humongous earthquake.

Hera had a lonely life
When Zeus went to Earth,
To see other women,
He is so in trouble!

Zeus had a daughter called Aphrodite,
A beautiful goddess was she,
Apollo, Athena, Hermes,
To mention only three.

Zeus’s father Cronus,
Ate his siblings whole,
But by the time Zeus was born,
His mother grew very clever,
She had Zeus in secret,
And made him eat a stone
So that Zeus could take the throne.

And Zeus was king of the Gods for many years on.

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Vikings were very vicious,
They collected swords and axes and spears
Of different shapes and sizes.

They were brilliant swordsmen,
They would dance around striking their opponent,
till one of them … DIED!!

They were three tribes, Hooligan, Berserk and Bog-burglar.
Hooligans and Bog-burglars got on well,
but if you ever stepped foot on the Berserk island,
They’d go…BERSERK!!

Vikings may have been violent
but have helped us in many ways,
They’ve given us roads, houses, pavements
and many other things,
They may have been vicious,
but they were helpful.

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World War 2

Crouching in the Anderson Shelter
Watching our house collapse
A fire flickers in the moonlight
What a horrible thing war is.

Clutching my hated gas mask
As the train enters Devon
Little Perkins lives no more
What a horrible thing war is.

Sitting in the Town Hall
Being chosen like animals
Gazing at my new home
What a horrible thing war is.

Numerous outfits are long gone
Appetites are getting smaller
Dear Mr Jenkins was shot down
What a horrible thing war is.

Years go by and the war never stops
High-flying hopes are falling
Though the death-rates clamber on higher
What a horrible thing war is.

Smiles creep over Britain’s faces
As the news of Victory spreads
Now grown-up children run into their mother’s arms
What a horrible thing war is.

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I said Goodbye to Mum and Dad
And marched off to the war
Mum told me that I looked so smart
As I walked out of the door.

I think Dad knew as he didn’t wave
And he almost shed a tear
Just what I would be facing
His heart was full of fear.

It’s 1915 and I don’t look smart now
I cannot hardly stand
The mud and cold that awful smell
A gun poised in my hand.

Please take me home
Where the grass is green
And the birds fly in the sky
I want to see my Mum again
I do not want to die.

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My dog began to speak to me
After he ate some history
He knows the Egyptians and the Greeks
My dog knew knowledge historians seek
He told me that Egypt has fertile land
But there is a lot of desert sand
Greece has a lot of olives and cheese
But they had war beyond the great seas
Romans have reigned two hundred years
Because of the wars fought with spears
The Vikings were pirates of the UK
But they are still feared by people today
My dog told me many things about history
I write this poem very happy
Despite the fact I knew these facts
There is one thing I do lack
A social studies study guide
Because my dog ate my textbook

You draw little pictures,
Scratching the poor wall.
Covering tall structures
Like it’s nothing at all.

How is it that all could draw
When all I do is tremble?
Hand shaking as I attempt to soar.
Words I can’t assemble.

Yet I must admit,
The beauty held in each letter,
Even though I cannot commit,
Hieroglyphics is so much better.

You may very well be a person like me
And assume that ancient Greeks were utter freaks!
But to tell you the truth, they never were
So let’s begin to highlight their culture in turns
The Greeks wrote plays loaded with emotion
Tragedies, comedies performed in outdoor arenas
They wore colourful masks and stilts to make them tall
But what a shame, for the women never grabbed a role!
Credit to the Greeks for the game of Olympics
Discus, javelin, jumping, running and wrestling
They opened it to all people across the globe
Winners wore olive wreaths but not their robes!

To this day, Aesop’s fables are a child’s delight
A slave who won freedom with his storytelling might
Modern maps in this world were introduced by the Greeks
Latitude, longitude wiped the vague and descriptive
Geometry and shapes in modern mathematics
Owe much to Euclid, Pythagoras and Archimedes
Hippocrates the father of western medicine
Created an oath which is lasting legacy
In politics too, the Greeks were forerunners
Democracy, citizenship and law makers
We give thanks to them for inventions
Lighthouse, water mills, cranes and levers.

The Roman times weren’t very pleasant,
nor with the execution or the wars.
But look on the bright side, the beautiful buildings
and the bright shining amour that looked like gold,
pure gold.
The Roman emperor loved to have mosaics.
The beautiful city of Rome is still around,
but some is in ruins, no longer a town.
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could to go back in time,
live like a Roman, fight like a knight?