1978 School Magazine

YY'NN'NG ENTRY FOR 1978 POETRY COMPETITION Between Adulation, Devils and Deep BIue Seas The needle soars unflickering round the meter And the girl smiles with powerful pleasure Such a sml/e ls the measure - Man-made suicidal endeavou r. "Don't fly too c/ose /o the Sun, my child." The thritt of his pulse pounding against the unheeding Peal, He will master both man and machine He can't see that the knife glorified by the fiend ls warming him uP for the kill. "Arrogant but precious youth, heed wise warnings"' The red body is now spent Contrary pleasure has had its fling The Devil has exorcised the lemmings Collected with interest his effortless renf. "The Wax melted in the terrifying heat and he fell and drowned in the restless sea. " Sandra Paulsen,6E'

EXILE

My mind Can see no longer Those towers Of sunwiped sand. My heart Can no longer recall What it was To feel the

Sun of thy birth Upon the face And the Radiance of thy planet's land Beneath thy feet.

No longer. No longer. Only Lonely steel Of alien heart And cold angry Rock Haunt my eyes Of reality. All past Has

Vanished into Sadness and Tears. All yesterday Of homespun warmth Has gone. All of the dandelions That I have Held Upon my heart Have been crushed Before they reached the Wind, While this time sr// Goes on. Jane MacGibbon,68.