Liam Campbell in Primary 6 Port Ellen Primary reached the final of the National Galleries ‘Inspired? Get Writing’ competition and was awarded a special merit in Category A. He chose an abstract painting by Jackson Pollock and wrote a poem which personified an abstract idea of chaos. He went to Edinburgh to hear his poem read aloud in the National Gallery of Scotland.

Well done Liam!

CHAOS

Chaos, a meddling madman causing troubls,

A joker, a riddler, giving you puzzles to solve,

To make sense of the madness.

Dashing through the wind like there’s nothing in front of it,

Turning things up. Messing things up. Knocking things over.

Roaming, crashing, smashing, dashing, frightening.

A twisting tornado.

By Liam Campbell