16
BAMOS
Dec 2019
Years 7–9 Winner
Amelia Brollo
Hunter School of the Performing Arts (NSW)
I painted this work last summer when I had come home
from the beach. Summer to me is always bittersweet
because I am always so happy while it lasts, I love sun and
the heat and the smell of fresh air but at the same time I
know that it will eventually pass and I will have to make it
through yet another miserable, freezing winter.
With this in mind, I wrote a poem that reads as follows:
I truly will miss the beach, the waves, the sun and the heat,
The sand between toes, the zinc on my nose,
The beach will be all that I need.
I’ll miss having flustered red cheeks,
Just to lye here absorbing the heat,
The sound of the waves,
Her familiar face,
I hope to soon have a repeat.