Inspiration Poems published

 Our writers took up Paula Green's November challenge, to write a poem about a person who inspires them.

Paula had written a poem about Margaret Mahy, who inspired Paula. She imagined all the things that were special about Margaret being in her pockets. We loved Paula's pocket poem so much, this inspired our own poems. 

Paula said,

"This was one of the most incredible challenges ever!

I so loved getting your poems, little poem delights, little poetry wonders, little pockets of inspiration. WOW!!

I loved how being inspired means we take the next step, even if it is very tiny."

Paula picked some of our poems to publish on the Poetry Box website. Congratulations to:

Aayat B

Aoife M

Rongo

Abigail O

Sterling

Tiana R

In addition, Paula chose Rongo to send a copy of her beautiful book, Roar Squeak Purr to! She said, Rongo's poem "touched my heart". 

Congratulations once again, to Rongo and our other poets.

Well done to everyone who wrote a poem for this challenge. They were all so good and Paula wished she could have published every single one. She received so many amazing entries from schools all over Aotearoa. Paula said,

"Just remember writing poems is something many of us love to do! Sometimes we get published and sometimes we don’t."

You can read the published poems on Poetry Box at this link:

https://nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/poetry-box-november-challenge-some-favourite-poems/

Paula Green