Local learner receives top honours for poem
Springs learner performed her poem at the Johannesburg Festival of the Arts.
Mia McGurk, a Grade 10 learner from Veritas College, performed her poem at the Johannesburg Festival of the Arts and received the highest mark of A++.
The festival took place from May 26 to 28.
Mia moved to Springs from Johannesburg with her family two years ago to be closer to her grandparents.
She wrote an original poem about this experience and the difference between Johannesburg and Springs.
From Sound to Silence explores the beauty of Springs and the value in having some time and space to think:
The beat of Jozi
The beat of Jozi
The beat of Jozi
The silence of Springs
As I walk into the heart of the beast
I see people living like slaves alongside kings and queens.
I see opportunity
I see failure
I see danger
I see success
I see so much
I hear so much
I feel so much,
My evenings were so full of sound
Gunshots, cars, music, people,
But what was missing was my own thoughts, my own silence,
my own peace.
You wonder why I walk away from the beat of Jozi to the silence of Springs…
You see emptiness – while I see space.
As I walk into the silence of Springs
I breathe a little slower,
I hear a little further,
I sleep a little deeper.
The beat of Jozi
The beat of Jozi
The beat of Jozi
The silence of Springs
