2022的FOBISIA（The Federation of British International Schools in Asia）詩歌比賽分為初高中兩個賽道，對所有FOBISIA學(xué)校開放。比賽的主題僅僅只有一個詞：‘Survival’（生存），沒有明確定義，沒有形式限制。

　　某一天的上午，我打開比賽的宣傳海報看到這個詞，第一時間就想到了已經(jīng)持續(xù)三年的疫情。對于在疫情重災(zāi)區(qū)的人們，生活已不再是生活，而是生存；對于像我一樣在防疫區(qū)域的人而言，因為COVID帶來的網(wǎng)課，隔離，核酸等生活不便，我們好像變得愈加浮躁，失去了自我。因此，我決心要以‘生存’為心，疫情為軸，參加這個比賽。

    前段時間，我剛好有幸了解到concrete poetry（圖案式有形詩體）。這是一種以獨特文字的排列方式而主打視覺排印沖擊的詩體。我想，詩歌也可以像畫一般，讓不會讀寫的群體也能理解，感受。 所以我特地把詩詞排版成一個冥想的姿勢，其含義為在疫情世界的喧鬧中沉淀內(nèi)心，尋找自我。雖然靈感源于concrete poetry，但是我在詩詞方面還是下了功夫，藏了很多小細節(jié)，并沒有遵循該詩體往往忽略文字意義的常規(guī)。

　　很開心這首詩能夠得到深圳國際交流學(xué)院超級可愛的Cooper老師，學(xué)校，和FOBISIA的認(rèn)可。也很幸福在創(chuàng)作的過程中一次次找到了word power！

　　The competition’s organizer, Mr Matthew Green of Swire European Secondary Campus, commented: ‘I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate…Yoyo Chang on winning 1st place in this year's KS4/5 FOBISIA poetry competition! This year's competition was fierce, which speaks volumes for the quality, creativity and lyricism of Yoyo's untitled concrete poem focusing on the theme of "survival".’  Ms Cooper would like to thank all entrants to this year’s internal competition and remind all SCIE students to keep writing creatively over the summer holidays!

——Ms Cooper

　　English version：

　　The 2022 FOBISIA Poetry Competition was open to all KS3 and KS4/5 students from FOBISIA Member Schools. The theme of the competition is one sole word: ‘Survival’, no fixed definition, no form restrictions.

　　On a Sunday morning, I saw the competition poster and the word ‘survival’brusquely jumped into my sight. Immediately, the gray and black recording of the ongoing pandemic popped up. Some are no longer living, but rather surviving; others like me, in the disorders of online lessons, quarantines, COVID tests, and other pandemic inconveniences, grow increasingly unsettled and lost. As a result, I decided to attend the contest using ‘suvival’ as the frame and the pandemic as the stand.

　　Recently, I got to know an intriguing type of creative writing called concrete poetry, which is a form of poetry that employs unqiue linguistic arrangements to accentuate visual, typographical effects. I wonder, poetry can in fact be like painting; I hope to produce a writing which even the illiterate group can ‘read’ and ‘feel’. Therefore, I intentionally format the poem into a meditation pose, delivering my central message: in the midst of the pandemic chaos, let us sediment our mind, let us find our self. Albeit my idea orginated from concrete poetry, I still carefully crafted my language, thinking outside the box of concrete poetry (which neglects verbal significance).

　　I felt so honoured to win the acknowledgements of Ms. Cooper, SCIE, and FOBISIA. I felt so happy finding the power of words once and once again on this beautiful journey.

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