'Time'

Over the next week more entries from the Junior Poetry Prize will be posted here. Mark Russell (a previous winner) was Commended for this poem:

'Time' by Mark Russell

From the pudgy pink face

of a smiling little child

To a grey hunched

figure, warped by

wrinkles and furrowed brows

From a vibrant green leaf

sprouting proudly from a branch

To a dried out brown husk

crunched underfoot

on a cement path

From a rust-coloured fox

bravely facing a road

To a slumped pile of matted,

bloody fur

To a cloud of swollen

turquoise flies.

The passing of time

can be savage,

But the here and now is

Golden.