We had dozens of poems and stories submitted during the Mind the Gap day in September - thank you for all your entries. Canterbury Laureate Patricia Debney had the task of choosing three entries that would win book tokens.
Congratulations to our winners John Whitworth, Mark John and Ross E Barnes. And special mention to 11 year old Eva Harris.
JOHN WHITWORTH
A Use for Poetry
To speak my mind
Might be unkind
Without a map
To mind the gap
Between my mind
And what I find
Without it.
I need a map
To find a way
To bridge the gap
From what I say
To what I mean:
A word machine.
Don't doubt it.
______
ROSS E BARNES
M.T.G.
Mind the cat
beside you
mind the fat
inside you
mind the lust
behind you
mind the trust
between you
mind the love
that drives you
mind the gap
that separates you
Mind that Gap,
FOREVER.
______
MARK JOHN
Mind the gap
twist truth and style,
That toothsome
grinning crocodile.
______
EVA HARRIS (aged 11) - Special Mention
Loving Without a Heart
When you're gone I wish you were here,
But when you're here I wish we could be apart,
I don't understand what's happening,
It's like I'm loving without a heart.
I wish there was a way to stop,
Stop you from slipping away,
But all the time you change,
As swiftly as night turns into day.
A tape of when we first met,
Plays over in my mind,
We have to look to the future now,
And leave the past behind.
I can't take this any longer,
You and all your lies,
All the good things about you,
Get cancelled out by the things I despise.
Congratulations to our winners John Whitworth, Mark John and Ross E Barnes. And special mention to 11 year old Eva Harris.
JOHN WHITWORTH
A Use for Poetry
To speak my mind
Might be unkind
Without a map
To mind the gap
Between my mind
And what I find
Without it.
I need a map
To find a way
To bridge the gap
From what I say
To what I mean:
A word machine.
Don't doubt it.
______
ROSS E BARNES
M.T.G.
Mind the cat
beside you
mind the fat
inside you
mind the lust
behind you
mind the trust
between you
mind the love
that drives you
mind the gap
that separates you
Mind that Gap,
FOREVER.
______
MARK JOHN
Mind the gap
twist truth and style,
That toothsome
grinning crocodile.
______
EVA HARRIS (aged 11) - Special Mention
Loving Without a Heart
When you're gone I wish you were here,
But when you're here I wish we could be apart,
I don't understand what's happening,
It's like I'm loving without a heart.
I wish there was a way to stop,
Stop you from slipping away,
But all the time you change,
As swiftly as night turns into day.
A tape of when we first met,
Plays over in my mind,
We have to look to the future now,
And leave the past behind.
I can't take this any longer,
You and all your lies,
All the good things about you,
Get cancelled out by the things I despise.