Moeka Koyama — Third prize (equal), Year 11 Character of music

from Poetry New Zealand Yearbook student poetry competition 2020

Georgia Wearing — Second prize, Year 13 Bury the lamb

Character of music

They said, play for us minds elsewhere; browsing through the unanswerable tiptoeing in the yesterdays of today flinch, a forest of memories not to be touched the music, whistled by

They said, play louder drunk in the vodka of society like biking down a slope with no breaks wry hands clutched the source of thought a rugby ball waiting to be thrown

Here is not where they want to be glass breaks but air not the music whispered by

They clapped

I said, petals you may hear but the stem is the source water, air of the indestructible music

— Moeka Koyama, Motueka High School

Moeka Koyama — Third prize (equal), Year 11 Character of music

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