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Dynamic poetry competition successfully completes second year
Winners’ row: Apostle Vanrick Beresford hands over a cheque to Dynamic Poet Rodlyn Semple, as Rondel Douglas and Andrew Liverpool look on.
While some have opined that poetry is a dying art form on the local shores, at least one church is ensuring that this remains a mere opinion, if not a myth.
The second annual Dynamic Poetry competition aimed at inspiring and encouraging youths to be actively involved in keeping the art form alive was recently held at the Maranatha Ministries International, Quamina Street.
From a field of 14 in the competition, Rodlyn Semple, Rondel Douglas and Andrew Liverpool walked away with cash prizes of $50,000, $30,000 and $20,000 respectively as winners.
Semple, aged 29, is a Saint Stanislaus College graduate who captivated the audience with her dramatic presentation of “The January Floods: Reflections of 2005.”
The Bureau of Standards employee was elated at her success and said she’s working on a book of poems that she hopes to publish before yearend.
Eighteen-year-old Douglas dished out his “tell me” tale of a man who is madly in love with a woman and wants to know if she felt the same about him. She had lied to him and in the end through his persistence for the truth she offered him much disappointment.
Third place finisher, Liverpool’s presentation was “Ramifications of a recently married couple”.
That rendition spoke of love and life’s realities that support the theory of love being blind.
The brainchild of the competition is Apostle Vanrick Beresford, and the competition was sponsored by corporate citizens Laparkan, Amerijet and Nigel’s Supermarket as well as Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Tourism, Industry & Commerce, Willet Hamilton.
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