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!
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!
The participation of the Greek students:
ReplyDelete1st 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 !
The participation of the Romanian students:
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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
The participation of the Belgian students
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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
The participation of the Portuguese students
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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
The participation of the Finnish students:
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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
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!!
ReplyDeleteFrançoise from Belgium
Thanks for your feedback! I think we may all be proud of our students.
ReplyDeleteWe'll send our votes early next week.
Isabel