Rainbow Reefs
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Lizzie Carew-hopkins, Grade 6
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Poetry
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2008
The multicoloured reef is a rainbow of shimmering colours everywhere
Fish are darts flashing brilliantly
Streamers of sea grass, swaying slowly in the currents
Moving rocks, crabs scuttling not stop
Grey dull sharks, chainsaws with their teeth as sharp as nails
Grasping everything in sight
The glistening sand, a golden sheet of paper, covering everything that lies beneath it
Glimmering jewellery boxes of coral holding beautiful colours and secrets
Squidgy brown spaghetti is the eels, slimy as can be
Raindrops, short sharp daggers of acid, killing reefs worldwide
Sea birds, shooting bullets, eating everything in sight
The multicoloured reef is a rainbow of shimmering colours everywhere