Poet's Corner: Blue Monday

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Welcome to Poet’s Corner, our brand new series featuring poetry written for you, by you! We’ll be sharing your poetry throughout the year, and it’s totally up to you what you write about. If you want to get involved, let us know over at @NCS or fill in our writer application form. But first up, a poem by Alishba, to give us a little bit of inspiration and motivation to get us through today, Blue Monday, which just happens to be “the most depressing day of the year”...apparently. 

 

Blue Monday

 

A brand new year, a new start, new us and time for fresh challenges and new

projects to do,

 

persevering at the typical challenges we naturally face by taking new perspectives

as we tackle them with the knowledge we gain and the skills we develop,

a time for New Year’s Resolutions but also keeping some things the same because

they make us who we are.

 

Children continue learning and understanding as teachers teach them,

teachers happily do their special, rewarding job of making a difference

to children’s futures – whatever their capabilities.

 

Grown-ups go to work as surgeons, doctors, dentists, and nurses do their job of

treating patients,

 

engineers and mechanics build and repair vehicles for us to travel in,

factory workers prepare confectionary, food, house necessities and other

 

objects for us,

plumbers and electricians install and fix household necessities for us,

writers do their lovely and relaxing job of writing for different purposes and use their

 

talented skills to promote subjects they are passionate about.

 

We go on to achieve great things as we pursue the dreams we are talented

and knowledgeable in and

we sometimes become known for what we do.

 

January: the month to start it all off (new aspirations),

along with a cold, breezy winter enough to make us wrap up warm,

then comes the possible highlight of the chilling season – the soft white snow which

falls upon us,

 

whilst adults moan mercilessly against the soft white blessing that falls down from

the sky up above us,

and, the adults have to sweep it all up, before it falls upon us again.

 

Happy children go out playing and squealing as they make snowmen and have

snowball fights, while inside houses are boiling with heat, smoke, and fire.

 

February: the month where things start to look up, where days start becoming longer

and the dark bleak, nights are no more,

 

The season of harvesting begins with the growing of crops,

March: the season of spring, full of sunny yellow sunshine, and fresh fruit,

when children go to the swings, slides, and play games in the warmth of the bright

yellow sunshine,

 

and adults take to their leisure hobbies,

then the ice cream van calls everyone to cool down with sweetly flavoured ice

creams and ice lollies.

 

And the fun continues until October with weekends and holidays booked for enjoying

the sun.

 

September: when learning continues and teachers passionately teach children to

read and write,

 

October: tick-tick, tick-tock – the clocks change going back an hour to make the days

shorter as darkness looms over us quicker than ever before,

 

November: the cold quickly begins so houses prepare to warm up,

 

December: the coldness deepens, and darks greets us more quickly.

 

Got a poem you want to share? Let us know @NCS or fill in our writer application form.