Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Olivia Darby
Shirley May is awarded an honorary RSL Fellowship
Poems for Peace competition – 1st Prize: Heather Glover
Kate Gavron is awarded an honorary RSL Fellowship
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Felix Stokes
the poetry is in the pity. war and the pity of war and the pity of war and the pity (oh god let him come home alive or let me never live again),ringing in his ears, he swallows. iron turns to burgundy and blood blocks the sun upon the blade, a father’s love burns for […]
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Waseem Sherzad
Last Year, This Year Last year I slept in the sweetcorn fields. This year I sleep in my own room. Last year, when the sun shone I searched for shade. This year I look for the sun’s rays. Last year we tried to find food. This year I can buy food. Last year at sunset […]
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Gwenllian Rees
Peace The war against the rainbow has ceased. Slurs dissolve in the rain And sunshine welcomes the reign of acceptance. We eat pronouns like cherries on cake And they don’t turn our stomachs anymore. People are no longer magnets Because North and North attract And South kisses South, hand in hand, On a safer street. […]
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Diana Ozola
Dulce bellum inexpertis The sweat. It bleeds through the pores of your skin, melding together to form a bead. It drips down your back as you perch behind a tall boulder, covered in blood, on the balls of your feet. Almost unwillingly, You block out the sound of agonizing screams and bullets, As all you […]
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Jenny O’Gorman
Farewell My to-be mother is sad, as if she were Waiting on a sandy coast of some vast Firth of the tide’s tug, & precious Grains were slipping through her fingers Cupped around her unborn child, Never suspecting her baby Would fall in blood drenched lands Of war Or that his life would be a […]
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Tuan Nguyen
Flame I have a dream about my family: where I have happiness and peaceful tranquillity; where I can come back whenever I want; where love can’t be counted; where smiles can’t be forgotten; where tears are always remembered; where I can rest when I’m tired; where wishes are completed; where someone wakes me up every […]
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Tanushree Nag
Hope Sleeping silently, tucked up in my bed The fighting and shouting drowned out Suddenly, BANG! A shock awakens me Not sure what it’s all about My mother runs in, tears in her eyes She tells me, ‚ÄúWe have to go.‚Äù My mind floods with many questions As there is so much I do not […]
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Tito Molokwu
To My Future Child- December 2018 To My Future Child, I long for your days to never know the destruction of tyrants, Colour trumping compassion, regime abolishing reconciliation, The future must know that peace is acceptance I wish that each person, over the shouts of division, whispers unity, cessational spirants, Respect not possession over the […]
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Haroon Malik
Andrew Holgate is awarded an honorary RSL Fellowship
Poems for Peace competition – Highly Commended: Ambar Madhok
The Snowdrop His head drooped down, as he ventured away from the battlefield, He had travelled so far, compared to the British He was one of the last left, no one to talk to Everyone felt far from home, but they evidently didn’t know what far was, All the way from the Indian ocean to […]