The tangible outcome of this year’s project is an official publication – an anthology titled “This World of Ours”, comprised of over 100 poems authored by our students across our family. The anthology showcases how our students develop their writing skills and how they learn to inspire others with their own words.

A World

Within a boundless abyss of galaxies without end

Inside a system of stars so vast to comprehend

One blazing ball of fire, a goliath but a pinhead

Surrounded by a group of several spherical friends

Prospering in nature and thriving with life

Flowing with water free without strife

Earth it was called, a glorious phenomenon

A place where harmonious beings love and requite

Countless millennia of change and evolution

Crawling through the narrow tunnel of delusion

The first to open eyes of enlightenment:

The humans.

Intelligent, capable, and overpowering

Across the land they were scouring

To expand knowledge and cognizance

While feeding on the information they were acquiring.

However, nothing comes without negatives

Like yin and yang, ‘bad sides’ were imperative.

These are the shadows of our world

Within their love exists dark intentions of lust

In their loyalty lurks a dire suspicion of trust

Kindness and gratitude covering for discrimination

Many more tragic truths, clamorous but undiscussed.

This is the reality

Being exposed to such lessons of morality

None of this is considered an abnormality

This is our world.

Tiger X.

Year 9

Dulwich College Beijing