Tag: Poetry

Ski Recount

Top of the Mountain

 

Skiing in Porters Pass

At the top of giant mountains there is no grass

There is a lot of snow way up there

Finding a rock is very rare

Except there wasn’t very much snow

All you could see was sharp rocks though.

 

My goal was to get to the top

it was very difficult to try and stop

Three steep T-bars and a whole lot of nerves

Down on the cat track there’s a whole lot of curves.

 

Trying to ‘send it’ off of all the jumps

At the start of Easy Street there were lots of bumps

This beautiful day was so very amazing

I suddenly caught myself gazing

at a secret lake called Lake Coleridge

You could only see it from the top of the Craigeburn Range.

 

  • Chase Bechtel

 

Mountain Poem

Everest

 

I am the mountain

Everest

More mountainous than all

 

Tiny people stab with their toothpicks

Nothing but annoyances 

for the king of the pae maunga

 

I am the mountain

Everest

Loneliness haunts me

No one understands a giant 

 

I have stood for centuries

The heavens gifting me blankets of ice 

Covering my remote, rocky, rugged skin

 

The loneliness is unnerving 

 

Tallest of the pae maunga

Above the billowing clouds.

When I breathe, 

freezing gusts throw climbers off my shoulder

Into the abyss

 

Endless skies lay a blanket of cold on me. 

I am above the world

In the shadow of no one

Watching time go by at my feet

 

  • Chase Bechtel

Writing from this year

During the 4th term of this year we learned about different types of poetry including Haiku, Nonsense, etc. My favourite poem was the Memory poem because when I wrote it I remembered how fun my Ski trip was to Porters Pass. My least favourite poem was the Clerihew because it was basically a limerick except it didn’t have a fifth line. The next poem that I am going to do is the Kennings poem.