Christiana Constantinides - "Why do we remember?"
If you have a special interest in this aspect of poetry whether for yourself or your child, we hope you will use the Contact page. All local schools have been contacted in January on another topic. We hope to find a Community Secretary who would include schools liaison in the role. Schools are invited to run class projects on this type of poetry as well as on local history as seen here. One of our committee members was reading the Forest Of Dean & Wye Valley Review on Wed 8th February 2012. You see the result here:
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Here is the text sent by Mario and Karen Constantinides
Why do we remember? Why do we remember, Why do we think, How does it work , How does it link? Why do we stop and feel the pain, Of men and women who are the same. And why do these people risk their lives, And why do some people survive? Now I know they made me see, That they did this to set me free!
Christiana Constantinides (10) |
Here is the whole article published in the Forest Of Dean & Wye Valley Review on Wed 8th February 2012.
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A later issue:
Sell-out Poppy concert is ‘best yet’
A TOUCHING and quite brilliant concert
performed to a sell-out audience at Lydney
Town Hall on Sunday evening is expected
to raise over £1,500 for the Royal British
Legion’s Poppy Appeal.
The annual event, organised by the Lydney
Branch of the Royal British Legion, proved a
huge success.
The concert featured Forest of Dean Brass,
Drybrook Ladies Choir, Woolaston School
Choir and items of poetry by David Holmes
and 10 year-old Christiana Constantinides, of
Whitecroft. The chief guest was the county’s
Lord Lieutenant Dame Janet Trotter.
Christiana, who had posted her poem ‘Why
do we Remember?’ in the Poppy Appeal
collection box on the bar of her parents’ pub,
The Miners’ Arms, at Whitecroft, had been
invited to recite her work. Afterwards she was
presented with certificates by the Lord
Lieutenant and Lord Bledisloe, who is the
Lydney Branch patron.
“It was a very successful evening and
perhaps the best concert we have had since
they were started by Dorothy Marshall 26
years ago. We had many high profile guests
and an audience of over 450 people,” said
Branch president Lt Col Donald Dryhurst.
“Every year we try to improve but I have to
admit I think it will be very hard to better
what was achieved this year. All our guests
was full of praise.
Here is Christiana's poem as seen in the newspaper:
