1974 School Magazine

HAPPINESS Airy Pleased Playful Incorruptible Nonco'mmitted Ecstatic Singing a Song.

The long night struggles on, I pull it and it pulls me, we travel on. together. Our w'earin:ess cannot be spoke owr pain all - and all our pain - is [n us sunk lorever Till morning's glimpse is in our eyes, (we strain them so - so strain them we) I am awake _ he is gone - and we a,e free'

TROPICAL RAIN Curling, Twisting 14rithing Foaming splurge of entwisted spouting snakes of frothy, yellow slimy slithery gurgling - down the road the water floods lhe storm drains.

Cecilia Warwick 4C

J. Rowbotham 5D

LIFE Lile is like a match, OnIy here lor a short time .lo - Strike a match, Feel the warmth, The glow that enlolds you. Feel the joy, see the light, Hope, wish, even pray that it will remain alive. For once it dies Maybe our chance lor love Has once again gone.

NATARE'S COMPARISONS The sand is like a sweet, lonely expanse, Stretching away to the corners ol the earth, Sugar crunched between your teeth, The sea, a panther, dark and sinister, stalking the shore, The wind,like the howl of a baby, a boy Whistling between .his teeth, The stars, sunbeams lost in the darkness, The ntoon is like a child's ball tossed playfully into the sky, never to come down again until The sun, a splurge of bright colour, rises lrom its bed. Julienne Munro IIA

Sandra Patlon VID

torn between the real and the unreal I sink once again into the depths of a Sunday afternoon's depression. Thoughts become distorted in the stillness

ol the atmosphere. My mind vibrates. Nothing is real. ButIam.

Iam That seems to explain everything and nothing. Leigh Schoenheirner BC the essence of life

the beginning ol time and you were a lossil supporter ol all your children, who live beside you, beneath you. Glittering, shimmering, sparkling more beautilul than any diamond found on the land, your brotker. A wheel oJ colour that spins to eternity and gave birth to life.

Alison Fraser, VIB