International poetry success for Miki
Congratulations to Mikaia Rigby-Lambert for her fabulous success in an international Isolation Lockdown Poetry competition.
The Poetry In Action competition judges were 鈥渂lown away鈥 to have received hundreds of submissions from across Australia, New Zealand, and the United States.
鈥淐ongratulations! Yours really stood out to us,鈥 they said. 鈥淲e were so impressed with your poem that it made it into our听Top 10 Finalists!听
鈥淵our words were very moving. We loved your visceral use of metaphor and simile in your piece.鈥
The full list of Poetry in Action Top 10 Finalists is viewable on our听听补苍诲听听辫补驳别蝉.听
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Here is Mikaia鈥檚 entry:
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Bubble of bliss
Staring at the ceiling
Counting cracks like stars
Hidden from the world under a sea of blankets
She lay alone, afraid.
The silent night disturbed
Whispers of sirens like a scratch at the widows
Echos of a laugh that is no more
Children gone from sight.
Streets lifeless
Cars scattered empty, waiting
Curtains shut, society locked out
The bubble pops.
Panic like an eruption
Chaos crowds the once silent roads
Greed the driving force behind man
She lay hidden.
People spreading faster than a virus
Madness, mayhem, health overlooked
Moving like a flowing river
Fast, fluid
Cough, wheeze, shiver
Blame flies as illness hunts
Hidden from the world under a sea of blankets
She lay safe.