Poetry Slam!

 

 [Poster for our English Poetry Slam]

 

[the excited audience]

 

 [Julia signing up to read her poem]

 

[The judges]

[Julia presenting her poem]

[Julia, Laura and Natalie presenting a Lewis Carroll poem]

[Julia reading her poem: Identity]

Identity

I won't act the way you expect me to be
You try to make me a copy of your precious perfection
All I really want is to be free
I don't care, no, I love that I am an exception.

I am sick of your lies
Always pretending to be someone you are not
I am not afraid to cut off all ties
And erase your memory of me like an inkblot.

Give up, stop trying to capture me
I dance my way out of your prison
I do what I want and am who I want to be
All of this is exclusively my decision.

I don't listen to what you say
And I will always stay this way.

[Teresa reading her poem]

[Caro, our 2nd place winner]

[Alysha reading her Limerick]

There once was an English class
whose sass right then did surpass
the capable teachers
with very nice features
who kicked the kids out on their a**

[Vera reading her poem]

[Annika presenting her poem:]

Golden waterworks lying like paintings on my cheeks
My life's morning dew
Shimmering in the light of the orient sun
She's fading away
Just when I realize
I adore her
And I have to face the fact
I lost my friend, I lost all hope.

[Anne-Lena, Tara, Julia and Julia]

[Monika and her sonnet]

How do I teach you? Let me think
There are so many things to tell
And it takes more than chalk and ink
to make your minds wake up and swell

You're born curious that's for sure
Looking at the world amazed
Your teacher's task is to allure
You all to get well based

In our world full of confusion
Doubt, betrayal, haste and rush
Fake, deception and allusion,
They teach with love and a little hush.

To finally see you sound and strong
Knowing exactly where you belong.



and our FIRST PLACE WINNERS ARE..... (drum roll please)

LUKE AND LENA!!!!

with their poem:

Sticky Stuff

Do you know what's sticky stuff?
Sticky stuff is sticky enough!
Nobody knows it, it's horrible,
But the people who know it are adorable.

You can stick stuff, it's kind of magic.
If you lose it, it's kind of tragic.
If you throw it through the bathroom,
You could hit a bottle of perfume.

If there is fake sticky stuff,
This stuff would probably be rough.
So stay with original sticky stuff,
Because this stuff is sticky enough!

Sticky stuff's so sticky,
And it's also tricky.
Sticky, sticky, tricky, tricky
STICKY STUFF!!!

[First Place!!!]