On the evening of Wednesday 4 September, students and parents from Alexandrina, Victor Harbor and Yankalilla Council areas met at the Alexandrina Library Service to find out who the winners of the Mayors’ Short Story Competitions would be.
From over 1000 entries into the competition, 11 students from Investigator College were shortlisted across four categories.
Congratulations to Senior School student Gabby Cook, who was announced as the overall winner for the City of Victor Harbor, Year 8-10 Category. Read Gabby’s winning entry (Slam Poetry) below.
Congratulations also to category winners:
Eliza Altamura (Year 5 – 7 Victor Harbor)
Hamish Farrelly (Year 3 – 4 Alexandrina)
Georgie Byrnes (Rec – Year 2 Alexandrina)
Congratulations to all shortlisted students:
Summer Hayward
Jarred McCombe
Myla Wegener
Georgina Tenny
Ebony Hughes
Cohen Sommerville-Bott
Lucas Byrnes
Gabby’s winning entry:
Slam Poetry
I am a hero
Kindness has become a tornado of pretend,
We forget to breathe the truth in the wind
Instead we consume the lie in the breeze
I am a hero
Kindness a common good, a basic lesson, has been lost
A theatrical stint
A tool of personal gain; A praise
The world has lost interests of generosity
but plunder in the pursuit of greed
I am a hero
kindness is a tree,
of full of lush green leaves
twigs intertwine with stories
now dead, with nothing left but
a struggle to hold the smallest hope
the last green leaf falls
because kindness, we fear, carries with it a burden of unwarranted connotations
a mockery of soft hearted character
a flaw filled branch trellised (tre-less-t) and bound in trend
Yet I am a hero
I do not defy gravity or contort lasers with my eyes,
I do not shoot webs from my finger tips or move metal with my mind
But I am a hero
The world does not call upon me with a symbol in the sky,
Or a message though some magical third eye,
It is my heavy soul that needs to be soothed by the sight of kindness
That compels this dear hero to save the town called home,
Little by little
I am a hero
In kindness lies happiness but,
Kindness is seen as a performing art
Something like a masquerade
Life painted in a different shade
By those who want a praise filled parade
So, when real kindness finally shows the curves of its face
We question it
What’s is the catch? This can’t be true?
Kindness for me means you want something too.
But I am a hero and I believe in
A smile to make a small moment worthwhile is
A heart filled with hope,
And a hope filled heart is where great happiness may start
It may seem like a heavy task,
But share a glimpse of your kindest part
Breathe in the wind
Uncover what has been hiding underneath
Embrace it. Be a hero.
In kindness, my happiness grows fonder
In the days that I can do nothing but wander
I could still pick up my kindness and throw it to the crowd
Because my kindness goes unseen but not unnoticed.
A smile I create is a smile of my own.
Each small unseen act of kindness,
Is an art form in its finest
I am a hero.
http://www.victor.sa.gov.au/competitions