The Secret Garden

• Alecksandra Favor, Grade 6, St Aidan's Primary School
• Poetry
• 2015

Excellence Award in the 'The Write Track 2015' competition

Down the bush and across the lake,
through the forest and the land of snakes.
Inside a cave and down a magical slide,
There you’ll find where the secret garden hides.
When the clock strikes loudly at midnight,
twelve dancing princesses secretly arrive.
They dance until their feet are sore,
leaping, twirling on the dance floor.
Flying fairies suddenly appear,
The end of the princesses is now here.
They flutter their wings and wave their wands,
carefully flying over sparkling ponds.
The magic of the garden cannot last long,
Ballerina’s dance their last song.
The garden is touched by sunshine,
Everything disappears at sunrise.