We were delighted that a Third Year student from Glenamaddy Community School was a prize winner in the Teaching English Magazine’s National Poetry Competition.
Barrie Cunningham’s poem, What is a Bull? was highly commended and was one of twenty-one from over three thousand entries to receive a prize. His poem was also published in the winter 2011 edition of the Teaching English Magazine.
What is.....................a Bull?
( Modelled on “What Is.......the Sun?” by Wes Magee)
The Bull is a million hormones
bellowing to get out.
It is a tonne of muscle
waiting to be flexed
It is four hooves
Pawing soft ground
It is two evil eyes
staring back at me
It is a mad maniac
Longing to be free
Barrie Cunningham