12/23/2011

“Can You Hear the Earth Scream?!” – Comenius Green Flag Schools’ Poem Competition 2011 | Closing Date: 31-Dec-11

Details:
The theme is 'Eco-responsibility: Can You Hear the Earth Scream?!'. Entries must be written in English and returned to your English teacher who will then select the five best and write them as comments on the blog. The poems must include the name of the poet and his/her home country. The judges will be the Comenius teachers in each partner country. The prizewinning poems from each partner country will be published on our Comenius blog in January 2012 and as a prize for the competition the winners in each country will receive delicious chocolate.


Please join the contest and let us hear your artistic concern for the environment!

7 comments:

  1. The participation of the Greek students:

    1st poem 'Gloom' by Sophia Charalampopoulou (15 years)

    Condemned to eternal damnation
    You weren't strong enough
    Unable to save Her from perdition
    Unable to help her you were

    Burden to your rotten heart
    The quest on which you failed
    her bellowing voice you ignored
    You caused the death of your Mother

    The sacred Earth
    You failed her
    You had been deaf.


    2nd Poem 'Eco-Protest' by Katherine Alexandrou (16 years)

    Even if the distance is vast
    or the difficulties unsurpassed
    Even if I don' t know where to search
    or simply where to emerge .
    I will save it ,
    cause nobody else can change my world !


    3rd Poem 'An Earth's Ode' by Alkisti Aktsoglou & Melina Loukanidou (both 15 years)

    Dear humans
    Your Mother Earth is calling
    Your attempts of my killing
    Aren't obviously winning
    Restrain yourselves
    Recycle and clean your dirty mess
    Stop feeding me pollution
    Start a revolution
    All of you can help
    Against the scheme of my death
    I hope you will at least try
    The attempt to save me is worthwhile
    Your Mother,Earth

    4th Poem 'SAVE' by Theodore Konstantinidis & Cleio Agiannoglou (both 16 years)

    Can you hear the earth scream?
    Can't you see the pain within?
    We must extend a helping hand
    Before we all get tombs in the land.

    Save the air
    Save the sea
    Save the planet
    Save ME!

    5th Poem 'Wandering on Earth' by Areti Tsormbatzoglou (16 yers)& Basilis Kaisev & Basilis Michali (both 15 years)

    Gone to forests, saw the rubbish
    asked myself who to punish?

    Swam in sea and found the waste
    Breathed the dirt and felt the taste

    Earth is calling to survive
    what can I do to keep it live?

    Dear planet so sorry
    brave the teens who worry
    Let them help you to recover
    Depend on those who really bother !

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  2. The participation of the Romanian students:

    1st poem

    HOSTILITY
    DEGRADING PLASTIC
    THROWN ALMOST EVERYWHERE
    IN OUR PRECIOUS ENVIRONMENT
    UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!!
    DONOSĂ MĂDĂLINA, IX C, SCAN PROGRAM

    2nd poem

    PETS
    CRUSHED, THROWN
    POLLUTING, DESTROYING, DAMAGING
    MOST OF PEOPLE ANNOYING
    LITTERING!

    MATIESCU MARINA, GRIGORAŞ ALINA,
    GRIGORAŞ ELENA BAZILIUC OANA, IX A

    3rd poem

    BATTERY
    ONCE USEFUL
    BUT REMOVED AND
    DUMPED MERCILESSLY AND CARELESSLY
    POLLUTING!!!!!

    AXINTE LAVINIA, GHERMAN LAVINIA,
    NUC FLORENTINA, TITIEANU NICOLETA, XI B

    4th poem

    JUST
    FEW WORDS
    TO TELL YOU
    HOW DIRTY THE GRASS FEELS!

    GRADINARU COSMIN, IACOB ROXANA, AMARANDEI IULIANA
    UNGUREANU MIRELA, BEJINARIU MIHAELA, X A

    5th poem

    PETS,
    THROWN EVERYWHERE
    POLLUTING, DESTROYING, DISREGARDING
    MUCH DAMAGE, DESTRUCTION TO NATURE
    BROUGHT.

    SUMUSCHI ROXANA, CHIRIAC CATALINA, GEANTA CRISTINA,
    PUCICOVICI ANDREEA, POPA IRINA, XI A

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  3. The participation of the Belgian students

    1st poem

    I am the earth and I am suffering
    Why do people throw litter on me?

    The planet is little by little dying
    And almost all men remain indifferent

    However maybe the world is changing
    So that all minds take it aware

    Can we hope human race joining
    Hands for a world where respect is priority?

    LET'S HOPE A BETTER SOLIDARITY BETWEEN CIVILISATIONS FOR A BETTER UNIVERSE!

    Kathy, Léonore, Madeleine

    2nd poem "Sick blue planet"

    Dear Earth
    Beloved Mother
    Look what we've done to you
    Yesterday you were so rich
    And so precious
    Now you're condemned

    Yet you were innocent
    And we children of the Earth
    Are all guilty
    We've never cared about you
    Yet you've been sacrifying yourself for us every day
    But we've never thanked you for that

    Unfortunately the more time goes on
    The more your beauty is getting weaker
    Blue Planet that's how we used to call you
    Holy ground of our ancestors
    Now you're ruined
    But let me say that you still count for us
    Because we need you
    As a child needs his mother
    And if you leave us and go for ever
    I swear we will come with you

    Silvia

    3rd poem

    Can you hear the earth screaming
    Can you feel the earth shaking
    Can you see the polar bear dying
    Can you see the birds falling
    Can you see my distress
    Can you hear my SOS
    You know hate is useless
    For the ecology say YES!

    François, Guillaume,Marwan

    4th poem

    The earth is in my heart
    The ocean is an art
    The forest is amazing
    But I'm crying
    The people are so sad
    Our behaviour is too bad
    We must protect the planet
    We haven't started yet
    Keep on doing
    Can you hear the earth screaming?
    Together
    For the better

    Valère

    5th poem

    Can you hear the earth screaming
    Listen better, you will hear it
    The planet is suffering
    Can you hear it?
    Pollution is eating
    And heating it!
    What can we do?
    I want to save it with you!
    There is no rule or law
    You can do it anyhow!
    Children of the whole world
    People of all countries
    Have to open their eyes
    And to be united
    To keep our sweet planet alive
    And we will be thanked...

    Bruno, Adrien

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  4. The participation of the Portuguese students

    1st Poem

    Our world
    Our world as we know
    Is about to get down
    Seriously, this is the reality
    Trust me, we are all guilty!

    Earthquakes, storms, hurricanes...
    How many disasters to declaim?
    Fortunately, there are few Mother Nature creations
    This seems to be all retaliations!

    Fertilizers cause land pollution
    Open sewages foment water pollution
    Humans are the victims of their own spell:
    Nature takes dooms as devolution!

    But I still didn’t reach the biggest problem
    I could write one big column
    Factories know it well
    Their conscience should swell!

    The free carbon dioxide
    Is what I’m talking about
    It can be very dangerous
    You should have no doubt!

    This gas provokes global warming
    That’s why the earth is being transformed
    The temperature has been rising
    The ice caps are melting
    The water level is increasing
    This, that... everything is oversized!
    There are even more consequences
    And to change that,
    We have just a few more chances!

    Reduce the trash
    Use, reuse and recycle
    We are going to build a stronghold
    Let’s work for a better world!
    Vânia Lago

    2nd Poem

    Do you feel it?
    It’s the beat
    Of the blood in your veins.
    Does it hurt? It should!

    You’re selfish. So am I.
    We’re humans without excuse.
    We cut the mountains to slide through roads.
    Burning fuels to reach perfection.

    Our society requires egocentrism.
    And that rules capitalism.
    Even so we kick the living.
    For our own misery.

    Are we demons?
    We might be.
    Yet don’t taint the Earth!
    Am I heard?

    Luís Aragão


    3rd poem

    Can you hear the Earth cry?
    You do not care
    You do not try.
    The black oceans, the burning green
    The cloudy air, will be man’s despair
    Spreading chaos everywhere.
    Too blind, ignorant,
    Human?
    That is not humanity, that is insanity
    And this is not a warning.
    It is nature’s last pleading shout!

    Ana Vieira


    4th poem

    Can you imagine how we will live,
    Without water and sun?
    We don’t have anything to give
    There will be just everyone angry with a gun.

    To change the world
    We can’t be shy.
    Make a difference with words,
    To open our wings and make us fly.

    I remember the days
    When I could see the blue sky.
    But I think I’ve lost that way,
    And those days are passing by.

    Nothing is the same, but we have a solution
    We just have to be clean,
    In order to take care of our world and stop pollution
    Pollution… or death, I mean.

    Now when I walk in the street alone,
    And memories of a different world are passing by
    A murderer walks your streets tonight.
    I’m not the same bird, free and happy.
    I will never fly.

    I have to finish, but I hope I will survive.
    I hope the world will again be the same,
    And that I can scream “I’m alive!”
    But I’m afraid that those days may never come.

    Helena Santos


    5th poem

    Mother Nature

    I am Mother Nature
    I created everything for you
    All this is proof of my love.
    If you love me,
    Take care of me
    As I took care of you.

    The fires make me cry
    Pollution makes me cry
    The dismantling part of my heart
    The lack of awareness makes me live in utter loneliness
    Transform
    For you will always be covered with love and protection.

    Sara Araujo

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  5. The participation of the Finnish students:

    The 1st poem

    These snowy hills
    will they disappear?
    As the earth gets warmer
    nature roars in her anger.
    The beautiful forests
    will they all be destroyed by us?
    What about the clean water?
    Where can we get something to drink?
    As the rubbish bins get full
    and we keep our factories rolling
    What will happen to our green and blue planet?
    We must all make a change.

    Eska Virtanen

    The 2nd poem

    Nature is the best
    the place I want to rest.
    We have to keep it clear
    there should be nothing to fear.
    The Earth is going to fall
    and it applies to us all.
    The world is in our hands
    so let’s save our lands!

    Ilona Kvick & Jenna Kuusela

    The 3rd poem

    Can you hear the earth scream?
    Its lungs are filled with dust
    Its blood is contaminated with filth
    Its skin feels like akne.
    As people,
    all sorts and kinds,
    we are responsible
    to keep the earth kind and shine.
    Can you hear the earth scream?

    Mikko Huhmo

    The 4th poem

    We are a green flag school.
    How about you?
    We have a clean and tidy school.
    How about you?
    We like to recycle and keep it clean.
    How about you?
    Take us as your model
    and save the world!

    Johanna P.

    The 5th poem

    The wind was so breezy
    Why can’t life be that easy?

    It was only a fiction
    but became an addiction.
    It brought a lot of damage
    and it was hard to manage.

    If you grant me a truce
    it would be a good proof
    that you appreciate loyalty
    and we would make royalty.

    Another night, another fight.
    You owe me gratitude
    so show me some attitude!

    Heidi Vakkuri

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  6. Dear students and English teachers from Romania, Portugal and Finland, now I have read all the poems and I want to congratulate! What great and meaningful messages! Well done!!
    Françoise from Belgium

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  7. Thanks for your feedback! I think we may all be proud of our students.

    We'll send our votes early next week.

    Isabel

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