Competition Entry

It is snowing and blowing
Songs of glee beside the tree
I play in the snow but I make sure am WARM
It is bed time
I go to bed
Santa drinks Fanta
and carrots for the reindeer

Carols getting sung at your door.
Happy people all around.
Robins on trees.
Icy roads all around.
Sleigh bells ring as you go to sleep.
Time to hang your stocking.
Me and my family all together.
All the presents underneath the Christmas tree.
Santa’s on his way. Let’s get ready for Christmas Day.

Christmas is brilliant, it’s a time when people celebrate.
It comes every year,
Christmas dinner with friends, family and don’t forget the Christmas Pudding!
Presents under the tree and lots of cheerful people,
Until the end…
It’s time to say goodbye…
But the most important thing is to remember that
Jesus Christ, our saviour who was born for us,
is the best present that we can ever ask for.

Christmas is great, it comes once a year
Presents under the tree and lots of cheer
Celebrating with family and friends
Until the end
The great turkey sits on the table
Wait for it until you are able
This holiday comes once a year
So be grateful you get to cheer!
Christmas is not about getting presents
But to celebrate Christ indeed!!

Christmas is coming
Happiness is coming
Everyone is counting days like 5,4,3
My neighbours are coming
With cakes and sweets
Hoping you will have
A merry Christmas and happy new year….

WINNER

Sycamores falling from the sky
I move classes and I’m never, ever shy.
The colours of the trees are brown, orange, gold
The leaves on the tree all start to fold
We start to harvest sweetcorn and pumpkin and much more than that.
We try to find at least one bat.
We go outside to pick berries.
We go outside to pick cherries.
You start to see nuts on the floor
They keep coming… more and more.
In the night the leaves shine
I go outside and rain falls in a line
The bark gets rusty and brown
The bark gets rusty and starts to fall down.
We love autumn days!

WINNER

It is Hallow’s eve
As darkness falls
The moon hangs low,
A pendulum.

Ghoulish pumpkins’
creepy faces
Looming out to sneer
At trick or treaters

Eerie shadows
Darting in corners
Of charcoal night.

Under full moon
And spiked silver clouds
Werewolves,
Vampires
Howl.

WINNER

I feel lonely,
lonely like those falling leaves.
I let go of them
And they move on,
but I can’t, I can’t move on.
The rain,
Flowing down my face
like tears,
The tears I am shedding for you.
It’s your fault that I’m stuck,
Stuck in your crystal ball;
My body and my soul
Now emotionless
are slowly being covered by snow.

WINNER

People with cold cheeks rushing, shivering, sniffling.
Carry tissues and work hard under the bright street lights.
In the short, dark day, getting extra sleep time.
No flowers to be seen, evergreen shrubs covered and frozen.
Very early, moon’s out, windows cloudy and airs filled with forest.
Look out the clear winter glass panel, cold breeze crashing against the doors and locks.

Everything is so blurry, scarf protecting my mouth and lips but glasses steamed fully.
I have to keep my coat and layers on indoors all the time, plus several huge blankets!
Keep my hands warm and cheeks from the cold with a mask and gloves and pockets like a robber.
I can’t breathe, it’s hard to get up let alone to exercise.
The grass in the avoided arctic of a garden filled with dew drops.

It’s so chilly inside and I still have to and want to move around to school, plus all my list of long chores.
I don’t normally find everything this tiring and difficult, let alone brushing my teeth.
I need a hot water bottle everywhere and I wouldn’t mind greedily more than one for heat.
Sitting down in the needed warmth and shutting the blinds and lights as they are too depressing to match.
The atmosphere just making it harder to breathe, focus, listen and stay awake.
Stress means dirtier glasses.
At the dreaded long break the ice, drizzle and wind like a storm creating natural chaos and unwelcoming, straining, confusing environnent.

The break bell, kids screaming and running like aliens, drinking cold tap water from the queue.
Kind of the season you crave so much sweets. It’s not fair teachers get to stay indoors on devices as distractions.
So much human warmth inside and chatter in assembly you just want to ‘rest’.
It’s just the beginning of the day and I’m thinking why can’t we skip most of school for winter.
I can imagine the dark blue sky at 3.30pm and parents not allowing me to go outside after school.

WINNER

There is a monster ,
that comes out every Halloween,
it feasts on fear and feasts on cheer,
don’t scream too loud otherwise,
it will hear. It hears your joy,
It hears your pain, don’t get
too happy or sad, it will know.
I have seen this creature in action,
but there is something in its chest; I thought
there was nothing at all it… it… was hollow.
My legs started to tremble, my belly started to rumble
and the tears started to reappear and its darkness ,
started to blind me, I could not see,
I could only sense its presence near,
and it screeched
I AM HERE!