Junior poetry winner

Winner of the junior section of the Peninsula News Poetry Competition is Matthew Hallows of Empire Bay with Ballad of Empire Bay

Oh listen

Oh listen

For I have a story to tell

About the mountains that meet the water

And the many soldiers that fell.

Our cenotaph remembers

The many people that went

And every year we celebrate

The members our town had sent.

These are the days

Where many people did not stay

In our tiny little town

Of Empire Bay

Children went to school with books in hand

They did not go by bus only by land.

You can still walk around and hear people say

What a nice little town, this Empire Bay.

Matthew Hallows, Empire Bay