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Dozens of poems from youngsters of all ages were submitted as part of Warwickshire’s annual poetry festival. 

Inspired by the theme of global warming, the highlights of this year’s festival have now been collected together in an anthology produced by Warwickshire County Council’s Arts Zone.

Each entry selected for publication will receive a copy of the anthology, and a copy will be put on the website http://www.we-learn.com/artszone and placed in each school and county library across Warwickshire.

Judges selected the best poem by a secondary school pupil to be 14-year-old Hannah Roberts’ of Henley-in-Arden High School. In her winning poem, Hannah warns what life on the planet will be like if we do not respect mother earth.  Ten-year-old Logan Pick of All Saint’s CofE Primary School in Nuneaton wrote the best poem by a primary school pupil.

As a result of Hannah and Logan’s efforts, former county councillor Hughie Todner MBE presented Henley-in-Arden High School and All Saint’s CofE Primary School with the prestigious Todner Trophy. The trophy was introduced by the Todner family in 2000 to mark Hughie’s time as chairman of the Warwickshire Millennium committee.

Mr Todner, Chair of the Warwickshire Schools Poetry Festival, said: “It gives me great pleasure to present the trophy for the seventh year running. What started as a way of celebrating the millennium has become something of a tradition in our schools.

“The poems that we have received in response to the theme of global warning demonstrate that young people in Warwickshire care deeply about the future of our environment. We would like to congratulate all schools who have taken part in the festival on the quality of their entries.”

Global Warming
By Hannah Roberts, aged 14, Henley High School
Years from now,
The world will have changed.
This landscape you know,
Will not be the same.

Global warming isn’t hard to explain,
It leaves mother Earth in excruciating pain.
This hurts our planet in every single way,
The changes could leave us all in sorrow and dismay.

Up high in the sky,
Is the ozone cover.
Holes are appearing,
One after another.

Hurricanes, earthquakes,
Tsunami’s too,
These horrific,
Disasters are all cause of you!

We need to stop it now so the temperature doesn’t rise
People, plants, and animals would be in demise.
Mother Nature can’t do it all so let’s give her a rest.
We all need to try and do what is best.
Our planet earth is precious and can’t be replaced,
We need to act now or our home will be erased

Global Warming
By Logan Pick, aged 10, All Saints Primary School, Nuneaton
(The first letter of each line spells out GLOBAL WARMING)

Global warming is really bad.
Lots of people are dying, which is sad.
Oceans are rising really high.
Birds and creatures are going to die.
All of the ice is melting day by day.
Lots of people are in disarray.

Water is expanding night by night.
All people are running with terror and fright.
Running from floods which destroy the land.
Man causes the problem.
It needs to be put in hand.
Now is the time to act at our will.
Global warming might start to kill.

Link to WCC