“It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank and listen to its low placid voice”.
That’s writing that resonated with Jessica Gerger, president of the Friends of Kororoit Creek group.
She says she was reading
The Mill on the Floss, by Victorian poet and novelist Mary Ann Evans (better known by her pen name, George Eliot), when she came across this “beautiful line” that so perfectly evokes her beloved river.
She says it is also the inspiration behind the friends group’s inaugural poetry competition, for which entries are now being accepted. Ms Gerger says she hopes the competition will connect more people with Kororoit Creek.
“The idea is to get more people down to the creek, listening to the birds and the water and just getting connected with nature,” she says.
Ms Gerger says their poems don’t have to rhyme.
There are three catagories – primary, secondary and adult. Prizes include books, vouchers, plants and FOKC memberships.
The best poems will be turned into a limited-edition book.
Send entrties to secretary@fokc.org.au or PO Box 787, Sunshine, 3020, before November 15.
For more information, go to www.fokc.org.au/kororoit-creek-poetry-competition/
