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Winning Poems

If You're a Poet, We Want to Know it! 2022 Volume 10 – Ten

Congratulations to our 2022 winners!

Child category | Teen category | Adult category | Current & previous years' ebooks | Instructions for downloading |

First place – Child category

Ten Ships

If I had ten ships

I would go on a trip.

I would take ten friends

To ten islands.

We would take ten treasure maps

And ten metal detectors.

We would take ten shovels

To dig ten holes.

I hope we find ten treasure chests

To buy ten more ships.

Anahera Roach-Box

Second place – Child category

Ten Sea Creatures Swam Past Me

Ten sea creatures swam past me

While I was swimming in the ocean

First was a turtle, small and slow

Second was a whale, big and blue

Third was a dolphin, jumping out of the water

Fourth and fifth were two seals, slimy like an eel

Sixth was an octopus, shooting black ink

Seventh and eighth were two stingrays, gliding by

Ninth was a clown fish, tiny and orange

Tenth was a shark, scary and terrifying

Māhina Cook

Third place equal – Child category

Haiku (Ten)

Hello I am ten,

It's my special little day,

Everyone can come.

Bella Comerford

Third place equal – Child category

End of humanity (haiku)

Ten huge asteroids

Hurtling towards the Earth

Ashes fill the sky

Jono Murray

Honourable Mention – Child category

Ten Books

Ten books I love to read

The first is a Stars Wars book

The second is Goosebumps - Night of the Living D

Third is a Bad Guys book

Fourth is George’s Marvellous Medicine

Fifth is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Sixth, seventh and eighth are The Magic Finger, Fantastic Mr Fox and The BFG

Ninth and tenth are Wonder and Fish in a Tree

I love reading both by myself and with my Nanny

Natasha Heta

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Teen category

First place equal – Teen category

10 snowmen

10 snowmen spinning round and round

10 snowmen fall down

Daniel Fay

First place equal – Teen category

Ten seconds

Ten seconds goes by

A lot die yet more are born

Time continues on

Joe Popham

Honourable Mention – Teen category

Space

The Sun makes up 99% of the system’s mass

While Mercury's atmosphere is made out of gas

Venus spins in the opposite direction

But here on Earth we create infections

Mars had water in the past

How long is Jupiter's Red Spot gonna last?

Saturn can rain diamonds at times

Uranus's name means god of the skies

Neptune orbits the Sun very slowly

But poor Venetia Phair’s planet was phoney.

Jasmine Fay

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First place – Adult category 

Tu-hou-rangi's bones

Tu-hou-rangi once stood ten feet tall.

The tohunga exposed

his dried, oiled, and polished bones

when calling for luck:

at harvest,

when the fishing season began, or

on attacking an enemy.

Nga-Puhi raiders

stole those bones.

They vanished.

Mercedes Webb-Pullman

Second place – Adult category

Ten

on a scale of ten, right up bobbing against the ceiling

are the unmasked over covid; navigating close social

waters with the gunwhale jostling self assurance of

fruit vendors from another time and place

sorry; not aware deliberate deafness and stupidity

weighed more than the vulnerable, the aged or children

in the scales of life

ten kVa should clear wax from the ears

we have had fresh thunderstorms delivered

igor is waiting with the the electrodes

Robin List

Third place – Adult category

X is for ten

X is for ten

X is for censorship

X is no stopping

X is for wrong

X is for times

X is for outsize

X is for kiss

X is for cross

X marks the spot

X is a has-been and a full-stop

Elizabeth Coleman

Honourable Mention – Adult category

Waiting Room

Ten years old, you still need my hand. The dentist

is painting your teeth. Zigzags? you ask. Rainbow stripes?

You settle for banana flavour, and x-ray pictures.

They show ten waiting teeth, like skyscrapers

towering over city streets. One day, these skyscraper teeth

will fill your mouth and you’ll be too big for my hand.

When they need scaffolding,

I will stay on a hard chair in the waiting room

scanning an out-of-date Woman’s Day

if you will let me come at all.

Trish Veltman

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ebooks from previous years' competitions 

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Instructions

Clicking the above links will take you to the Smashwords Library.

If you don’t have an e-reading application installed on your device, follow the instructions below.

It’s easy to read ebooks on your desktop or laptop computer. Simply download an e-reading application as follows:

EPUB

For PCs and Laptops

Download and install the free Adobe Digital Editions from the Adobe website

For Apple iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch/Mac

Download the free Apple iBooks app from the App Store

For Android devices

Download Aldiko from the Google Play Store (a free e-reading app)

After you install one of the above apps, simply return to your Smashwords Library; click to the book you want to download, then click to download the EPUB file format. Your web browser should ask you if you want to use the app to read immediately, or if you want to download the book to your computer (if you download to your computer, the Desktop is a good location to drop the file so you can find it).

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