Lesotho National Write On! Creative Writing Competition Winners 2014
Standard 6:
Matseliso Selialia
Malingoaneng Primary School
Mokhotlong District
Prompt: If you were an animal for a day, what would you be and what would you do?
If I was an animal for a day I would be very sad and I ill be a cat. I will chase rats and eat them and then look for more rats or mice and then go at home and I should hide myself somewhere and when the rats or mice come out and pick one and eat I will be very happy or glad for my good food I will kick, dance, jump and run away This is a nice poem and you you can love it So when is at night and people are sleeping I will wake up and chase the rats or mice this ones will be my dinner or lunch or breakfast I will be so fat and I will always chase rats and I will not want to be a person I only want to be a animal I will only be the cat that does not eat food I will only be the cat that eat rats I will love myself and dance for my breakfast and dinner and lunch This will be very nice and be glad for my self I like this story very much I cat is a lovely animal that likes rats and mice I like to be a rat I hate all this animal exept the cat it is very funny the cat do you like a cat sir Michael or you hate it.
Standard 7
Mochaba Liako
Fobane Primary
Leribe District
Prompt: Pretend that you have been shrunk down to the size of an ant for a day, what do you do and see?
Funny! Funny! Funny! If I can shrunk to the size of an ant, I will be happy like the baby, who has been given a lollypop.
I will do things that I like that day and I will be a wealthy woman. I will be able to aid people, however people are very jealous. I will eat food that I prefer, the fruits and the drink.
Hat day when I se the people going to town, I will run after them and them myself where they can even see me. Other day when I se the people going in the bank, I will steal money and go to my home.
I will get in the car without paying because they will even not see me. That day I can go in the zoo to see wild animal. I will get there without permission because no one can see me.
I moreover, I will go to Maseru to Moshoeshoe airport to see some aeroplane. I will even go to Pioner Mall to play in the lift. I will be beautiful because as you know that the money makes people to be handsome/beautiful.
People is like I see my self being the size of an ant. People can’t you like to shrunk to the size of an ant?
Form A
Paballo Ranyenye
Sefikeng Secondary
Berea District
Prompt: If you could make a new animal, what would it be like?
I would make a new animal and its name will be Robary and it will look like a very important person in the world. It will have a peaceful eyes like a friesland, it will look like a monkey with three feet and two hands. It will have two eyes, two ears, one nose, and five teeth in oder to eat, I will feed it green leaves and twenty leters of water in a day.
My Robary will live all over the world or continets. This Robary will not eat people and animal, it will only feed on those green plants and it will reproduce and sacke its young one with six brist. I shall make male and female in oder to reproduce and it will stay all over the world but other times it will dig the hole to stay with their young ones.
Those Robary will go for place to place in seach of food to feed their young one’s, it will be the male one which will seach for food when the female is still sacking its young one’s. When young one’s the are grown enough the famale and the will seach the food to be eaten by their young one’s. It will be pieceful and have something like the rings around it on the face and some will be on the knees. Young one’s the rings will be on the knees only but when they are udalt the rings will on their face and knees only.
The male one’s the rings will be on the head and on the feet. This Robaries will breath by means of gill like a fish and a female and male will have tails together with their young one’s. My Robaries will be beautiful with soft hands and a hair covering all over but not on eyes and ears and nose.
Form B
Felleng Lesekele
Sefikeng Secondary
Berea District
Prompt: What do trees think about?
Trees, what do trees think about? It might be thinking about holding the soil firm and preventing soil erosion, oh! Or it might be thinking about walking away with its roots and not caring or the poor soil which is going to leave.
Mh! Hopeless soil, how would it survive when the trees has left? Ah! The trees also might be thinking of not to fall down because of the furious angry wind blowing like an electric hair dryer! Exactly!! The right thought is dancing and moving it’s leaves to the left and to the right like the hair of a celebrity called Beyonce on the beach.
Okay…! Trees might be thinking of growing higher and higher like the mountains. Could it be thinking of flying? Maybe yes maybe no! Could they again be thinking of shouting to the only one person we normaly call him God to give the poor thirsty soil water by letting his rain fall without any fear of being traped by the furious angry wind. It might be thinking of running up the mountains, or even worse, it might be thinking of catching the helicopters and struggling them up because of hatred of the nose which they are coursing.
Form C
Mamello Sebele
Masentle High School
Mafeteng District
Prompt: Invent a new day of the year to celebrate. What would it be, when would it be and how would people celebrate it?
Marginalized People
Celebration of the people whom are been marginalized as they can celebrate their freedom from the war of slave. Marginalized people are not free because they are not well saved like orphans also herd-boys.
When marginalized people are not been criticized we can now live with peace more than we are in our country. People like herd boys are not attend more important thing which they would change their lives from being marginalized.
So we have to give them a support by giving them that day to celebrate like in 25th December when celebrate that day, they don’t celebrate that day but they are people like us.
People can celebrate that day by giving them something like advices, giving food and clothes also giving support so that they can all get out of being marginalized people in our country.
I would like to celebrate that day on the 21st June every year so that they can be able to feel that they are the people like other people who are not being marginalized because we are on thing in this world as it says together as one.
Form D
Tjapela Titima
Fobane High School
Leribe District
Prompt: What is the most important invention in the world?
Tar Road
Just imagine how it was coming to be difficult for cars and people to travel on gravel if there was no tar road!
For an emergency purposes, it would be hard for patiants to be delivered to some hospitals or special doctors that are only available at Maseru (capital town of Lesotho). People were coming to die because of how the cars will be moving on that rocky gravel that would even damage the tyres and cause them to move slow.
In reducing of traffic, roads transports are now travelling well without any waste of time and traffic is reduced too, this is because they were moving as slowly as tortoise wasting time for the big ones that does not mind.
It is now much easier than those century tears back, the technology is now improved and differend types of cars are build and their speed is increased for covering long distance in short period of time.
This invention again brings much improvement to the world’s economy. By just saying this, The owners of the cars are paying taxes and passengers too pay when taking journy.
and the world’s account increases.
All nation’s live became well and easier and peace fell upon the world. they began to visit one another and share some natural resource like oil petrol, electricity and water. They began to share their knowlages and Technologies were highly resulted.
This was the most and special invention and historical to the world because it is the one that made the world to become in well situation and nations had peace to one another.
Form E
Reamohetsoe Khali
Seeiso High School
Mokhotlong District
Prompt: Write a letter to yourself to be read in 15 years.
Reamohetsoe Khali
Matamong
P.O. Box 21
Mokhotlong 500
21st March 2014
Dear Reamohetsoe
I write this letter to you to serve as part of your life which will never be erased in your history of life. I would humbly ask of your to always meditate to this message written to you.
You have always been a good and intelligent young lady and never drop that element of your attitude. In all these things, I would ask of you to never forget who you are; your background, your parents, your good friends, and all those people who have contributed towards your success. Also never forget those people whom you considered to be enemies but instead forget those bad things they did to you.
Never by any day wish them bad luck for what you wish for other people to happen doesn’t only affect them but also affects you.
Make a world a better place for you and others. What you come up with make sure it’s not only for your benefit but for the benefit of all. Always strife to be transparent, truthful in all matters. Never cause any chaos with people you are close to. Always have a stand for only the truth, even if you are against thousands of people always know your stand because the truth will set you free from all chains and bandages.
Never seek for the love of men by pleasing them with wrong things or by congratulating them when they go astray. Even if they hate you or hurt you but what I know is they will respect you for your caliber. Don’t ever hurt others for your own benefit. Work peacefully with other people, giving them respect they deserve and never underestimate them because you will be preparing for your down fall if you do those. Always remember the little girl you were, always telling everyone of how a good medical doctor she will be, performing brain surgeries and heart transplantations successfully. Keep looking forward to that dream of yours till you achieve it because the game is never over until the last whistle is blown.
When you come across those hard times which are beyond men’s imagination always remember your religion and pray. Think before your act because the slightest mistake you would ever make might take you or someone straight to the graveyard.
When competing with the world’s greatest competitors or those people who think they will never be defeated, just sit back, watch the game while others paly, pretend as if you are clueless about it but when your time strikes make sure they are all in a heck of a surprise. I the morning when they wake up they will never know what hit them but still keeping the spirit; law profile, keep calm and respect them.
Never allow your state of living change the real you because if you lose character you lose everything. Always create a space in your heart that men are men like you are, respect the fact that they all make mistakes like you do because all what shines is not the real star forgive all who do you wrong regardless of how hurting they are. Never ever let someone hate you for the real fact and not put up right with that person because one’s tears can hauled your success. Put up right with everybody before it’s too late because life is too short and you will never know the time when you will die.
My last words are making the best out of your life because it is the greatest phenomenon that has ever crossed the horizon of this world.
Love you and always will
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