Poetry / Poesie
Yesterday morning, Saturday we got a call from Kim’s teacher. She wanted to advise Kim that she had won a poetry contest and that she would have to recite her poem during the Norris Point Trails, Tales and Tunes festival. Her poem is about Newfoundland and Labrador. She was the winner for the grades 7-8-9. Her poem is called Mountains and Sand and here it is:
Mountains and Sand
The mountains pierce the azure sky,
Climbing, climbing, rising, rising.
With seagulls flying ever high,
Upon the windy breeze.
The ocean clear as blue-green glass,
Churning, churning, lapping, lapping.
A vast reminder of days that pass,
Forever beyond the shore.
A sea once filled with a bounty of fish,
Jumping, jumping, swimming, swimming.
It was all a fisherman’s wish,
His treasure of the cove.
A birch and a blue spruce pine,
Growing, growing, stretching, stretching.
Forever in this heart of mine,
Never lost to time.
Bugling lighthouse on the head,
Booming, booming, lighting, lighting.
Too glorious for any words said,
The guardian of the sea.
The island name the ‘new found land’,
Sitting, sitting, waiting, waiting.
From colossal mountain to speck of sand,
The heart, for eternity, stays.
No need to say that we are really proud of her. For this reason we went to Corner Brook to buy some “smart clothes” as she calls it because all she had is a little too “casual”, as she called it “smart cloths” she needed something nice to wear as she is going to recite her poem in front of an audience. After some shopping she found something that she liked and looked smart enough.
We then went back home.
On the way there and back, we looked for some Geocaches. Altogether we found 5 yesterday and had lots of fun. We found some nice spots, one of them with nice water fall. I took some picture of all of our findings.
So we ended up back home after few hundred dollars spent, 5 geocaches and 23 mooses. Yes! I said 23 moose. One of them we saw really close too, so close that I still don’t understand how come we didn’t loose a side mirror on the van in the process.
This morning, myself, Kim and Alain went to hide our 3rd geocache and then we went to the Norris Point municipal building as Kim had to rehearse her poem and do a sound check, CBC will be there to record everything, cool isn’t it? She is nervous but I am sure she will do fine.
Everything went well, she did a fantastic job in front of about 300 people. I am really proud of her.
Hier matin, samedi on a recu un appel du professeur de Kim. Elle a annoncé a Kim qu’elle avait gagné un concours de poesie et qu’elle devait lire son poeme durant le festival “Trails, Tales and Tunes” a Norris Point. Son poeme avait pour sujet Terre Neuve. Elle etait la gagnante pour les secondaires 1,2 et 3. Son poeme s’appelle “Mountains and Sand” et malheureusement je ne peux pas le traduire, en tout cas le voici:
Mountains and Sand
The mountains pierce the azure sky,
Climbing, climbing, rising, rising.
With seagulls flying ever high,
Upon the windy breeze.
The ocean clear as blue-green glass,
Churning, churning, lapping, lapping.
A vast reminder of days that pass,
Forever beyond the shore.
A sea once filled with a bounty of fish,
Jumping, jumping, swimming, swimming.
It was all a fisherman’s wish,
His treasure of the cove.
A birch and a blue spruce pine,
Growing, growing, stretching, stretching.
Forever in this heart of mine,
Never lost to time.
Bugling lighthouse on the head,
Booming, booming, lighting, lighting.
Too glorious for any words said,
The guardian of the sea.
The island name the ‘new found land’,
Sitting, sitting, waiting, waiting.
From colossal mountain to speck of sand,
The heart, for eternity, stays.
Pas besoin de vous dire qu’on est pas mal fier de notre pitoune. Pour cette raison on a du aller a Corner Brook pour lui acheter des vêtements propres puisqu’elle devait faire sa présentation devant une audience. Ca n’a pas pris trop de temps et elle a trouvé quelque chose a sont gout. Apres ca nous sommes retournés a la maison.
Sur le chemin, en y allant et en revenant, on a arreté a quelques endroits pour chercher des Geocaches. En tout on en a trouvé 5 et on a eu pas mal de fun. On a meme trouver un belle chute. J’ai pris pas mal de photos de nos trouvailles.
Donc de retour a la maison, apres avoir depenser quelques centaines de dollars, avoir trouver 5 geocaches et 23 orignaux. Oui j’ai bien dit 23 orignaux. On en a vu un de pas mal proche d’ailleurs, tellement proche que je me demande encore comment je n’ai pas perdu le miroir du côté sur la van.
Ce matin, Dimanche, Kim, Alain et moi sommes allés cacher notre 3eme Geocache et par la suite nous sommes allé au batiment municipal de Norris Point pratique son poeme et comme CBC enregistrait le tout, ill fallait aussi qu’ils fassent un test de son avec elle.
Kim etait pas mal paquet de nerf. Mais je n’avais aucun doute qu’elle allait bien se debrouiller.
En fin de compte tout s’est bien déroulé. Kim a fait ca tres bien, elle etait pas mal bonne surtout qu’elle a recité son poeme devant à peu près 300 personnes. Encore pas besoin de dire qu’on etait pas mal fier d’elle.
