Category Three winners

Congratulations to Lucy Barge (Mountain View), our Category Three winner. Her inventive and fascinating poem is below. We love Lucy’s use of language and breaking of lines to support her ideas.

Runner up:

Derrin Smith (Ao Tawhiti)

We also loved:

Abigail Hageman (Rangiora New Life)

All these poems will be published in the first issue of WE magazine, but you can enjoy Lucy’s poem below.

Art by Moana MacDonald (StAC)

crossed paths

by Lucy Barge

all the words

are broke

en, capital letters dropped

off in the margins 

of my mind, my sentences

sentenced to stuttering,

i don’t know why i’m wearing

the necklace you gave me,

i don’t know why

i hid in the girls bathroom

when you were looking

for me, and then

when i looked for you 

gmail said address not found,

and now you’re here

and i can’t hear

you over the speakers

and girls throwing high

heels, jumping on blisters,

I’M sORrY! 

the photo booth is free

but i don’t know where

to put my hands,

YEaH, eNJoY thE PaRTy!

my words stumble back

to waiting in line