Results of the Inter House Pen a Verse Competition

 The Inter house Pen a Verse Competition was conducted on 29 October 2013 for grades 9 & 10. The literary competitions are open to all the students; children look forward to them and we get a chance to identify the students who possess good writing skills.

First Place:

Apoorva Polisetty of grade 10 C C.V. Raman

Second Place:

Ahalya Rajgopalan of grade 10 B Amartya Sen

Third Place:

Anusha G of grade 9 J Rabindranath Tagore

Fourth Place:

Vaishnavi Jamshed of grade 10 C Mother Teresa

Here is the winning poem of the Inter house Pen a Verse Competition written by Apoorva Polisetty of grade 10 C:

The Times of Choice

The path winds up, and the sun goes down,

I might be lost in an unknown town.

I walked and walked till my feet were weak,

But I won't sleep until I find what I seek.

And then I find a house blocking my road,

Three different roads where should I go?

I peered down the first as far as it would go,                                                                        

I saw my life's history play as a show.

I looked down the second and didn't have to look far,

I could see myself standing at three roads at par.

I stared down the third and it stretched farther than before,

The end seemed hazy, this was a different door.

And suddenly it hit me what these doors meant,

The first and third were my past and future but the second is my present.

I couldn't live in the future, nor dwell in the past,

So to live in the moment I chose the second door at last.

I left the past behind and the guilt was gone,

I only looked forward as night became dawn.

The future ahead was full of worry,

I wouldn't bother myself, I was in  no hurry.

So I faced the present head on and strong,

Happiness came in my wake and success came along.

And many a time I looked back and wonder about this day,

How would my life be if that hadn't been the choice that I had made?