Kids’ World
View(s):Myself
My name is Nulara Jayawickrama.
I am eight years old. I live in Moratuwa. My hobby is reading.
My talent is singing. My ambition is
to become a singer.
My mother is Udeshika Prabadhani Gunathilaka. My father is Saman Manjula Jayawickrama. My pet is a fish called Goldie.
I like to draw sketches of swans and peacocks. My birthday falls on the ninth of April.
I love myself very much.
Nulara Jayawickrama (10 years)
Musaeus College
My dream
I was performing on stage,
With the audience in front of me.
Nervous and fearful, I was
Following my steps as I remembered.
Oh! I fell from the stage,
On to the floor.
I opened my eyes
To see me on the floor.
It was all a dream, (the performing part)
I had fallen from my bed.
My mother cried with fear
And I laughed until I cried.
Nadithi Kulasekera (10 years)
Ladies’ College
How we spent the lockdown
COVID-19 is a viral disease, highly contagious and fatal if not properly treated, which gripped the whole world including our motherland. To stop the spread of disease, the government clapped an all-island curfew, which lasted nearly three months.
All essential goods could be bought at our doorsteps and our family concentrated on keeping our time occupied. My sister and I helped my mother in cleaning the house, washing clothes and helping her in the kitchen. I learnt to cook simple dishes like dhal curry, coconut sambol, omelettes and tempered mushrooms. We did all our studies and I helped my sister with her studies. With the help of our teachers, we studied online and answered model questions. I read a lot of English novels
to improve my language.
Our plot of land was cleared of all debris, ahead of the dengue menace. After that we planted various herbs, vegetables and fruits such as turmeric, mint, tomatoes, ginger, green chilies, brinjals, spinach, onion, guava, mangoes, pomegranate etc.
To exercise, we played badminton and rode our bicycles. We played indoor games like chess and my sister practiced her melodica. We amused ourselves watching cartoons.
During this lockdown, the atmosphere was less polluted and wild animals roamed freely. In some countries people
suffered various hardships due to overcrowding in hospitals and over worked medical staff. We prayed for them to get well soon. We worried about our father who was working abroad too.
Our mother gave us boiled coriander water and vitamins and nourishing food, to keep us free from illnesses. Thus ended the lockdown, which was educational, amusing and sad as well.
Rohini Ramaraj (14 years)
WP/Jaya/Mahamathya Vidyalaya, Athurugiriya
Phase of change
Not everything that meets our eyes and ears,
Is of a true genuinity,
A feigned worth that’s added to deceive,
All whose sense of perception is weak.
For in many skeptical ways the untruthfulness,
Is clogged to warp the real display,
An imposturous world that adulterates its identity,
To ambush the nations; the victims of prey.
Social statistics will interpret the curve in many ways,
The pandemic battle may have devoured our accustomed place,
With other contemporary issues spelling the lesson to be learnt,
Are we bankrupt of leaders who’ll stand when justice is burnt?
Among many who lust the inequitable pleasures,
Like money, fame that lasts only a heartbeat in time,
Hostility is a knife at the nape
ready to put asunder,
Oh how soon betrayal turns
sweet companions to brine.
The clock above the mantelpiece of life ticks ahead of our conscious,
Caring not for the human plead for a pause,
Remember life lectures unanticipated amidst peoples’ deafness,
So the choice remains ours to brave the waving uproars.
Priscilla Rambukkange (14 years)
Hillwood College, Kandy
Dawn
Sun went down to bed last night
And woke up sleepy-eyed
And it said to itself lazily:
“It’s another day of work for me.”
Sun runs slowly across the sky
Napping behind Clouds sometimes
Sun runs slowly across the sky
So that Time will not fly by
Trees wake up
Winds stir
Animals get up
But not people
Winds blow
Trees dance
Birds sing
And fly past
Streaks of colour
Leave Sun
Combine with Clouds
To make beautiful pictures
With Winds and Trees
And Sun and Clouds
I love dawn
Before people interrupt
Ifadha Deen (14 years)
Leeds International School, Galle
My mother’s favourite things
My mother’s name is Lakshila Nadishani Perera. My mother is 38 years old. She is a very happy person. There are things which make her happy. She likes to watch movies with me and my sister. We watch a movie every month. She likes to read books with us. We have a library.
My mother likes baking food with me
and my sister and to eat together. Also she likes to eat cake, Indian food and what Gramma makes. My mother likes travelling with me and my sister. We often travel.
My mother is happy to do these things. When my mother is happy, both my sister and I are happy. Her favourite thing is to spend time with me and my sister.
Nanduththara Meegaswatte (8 years)
Oxford Int. College, Badulla