Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Winners 2020 | Page 46

Winning Entries
Poetry – Group 4
WINNER
Future Adventures of the Greater
Bay Area – eavesdropping on /
a conversation with the elders
Island School, Lam, Ady – 15
don’t you miss
the trees? the lush
greenery which provided shade
underneath for you to lie in the
welcoming green grass, the short
blades tickling your chin as you
laughed, holding the hand of the
person you truly
loved?
or the birds in the trees, nature’s alarm
clock, ranging from delicate chirps from
the largest of the feathered to piercing blasts
from pin-sized chicks. they greeted you as
you woke, as you walked, as you went to
work in another dreary office building, alike
to the gray one on the left of it and the gray
one on the right of it and the gray ones
beside those two and beside those two and
beside those two... doing something that
seemed to have meaning but now, when you
look back, really served no purpose
at all
i had a dream last night, about the
time when I was eight and we visited
the beach. Oh what a long, tranquil,
undisturbed strip of sand it was then.
the periwinkle, wait no cerulean, or was
it azure? pardon my confusion but it’s
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