Calliope is a weekly (mostly) session in Journalism where we gather to write and share pieces based on the selected topic! Enjoy the creative variety of poems and scroll to the end to find a couple of intriguing (and somewhat disturbing) short stories! Poltergeist, German for “rumbling ghost” or “noisy spirit”, is a type ofContinue reading “Poltergeist”
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Renounce
Calliope is a weekly (mostly) session in Journalism where we gather to write and share pieces based on the selected topic! Have a look at this week’s poetry collection! I renounce my throne! “Renouncing” can be used in many scenarios, meaning to abandon, give up or turn away from something. Cheng Jie The student ladenContinue reading “Renounce”
Revolution
Calliope is a weekly (mostly) session in Journalism where we gather to write and share pieces based on the selected topic! For our first-ever session this year, we got a nice range of poetry (spot the limerick and the haiku!) as well as a short story. Oh glorious Revolution… We nearly had an entire newsletterContinue reading “Revolution”
Valentine’s Day Anti-Love Poem Contest
Preamble, preamble. It doesn’t matter anyway. Nothing really does. Which really contextualises our futile struggles for connection in a dying world, no? Top three First Anonymous Tongue In a memory pulled from the heart, I found a long-lost trace of your gentle cadence; your fiesty tenor, diminished but resolute. It compelled me, enveloped in aContinue reading “Valentine’s Day Anti-Love Poem Contest”
Valentine’s Day Rejection Poetry Contest
This year we held a Valentine’s Day contest on our Instagram page at @nushjournalism. Students wrote and submitted poems about rejection, and we received 81 poems in all. Below are the first to third place winners, as well as the honorable mentions and other entries. Congratulations to all winners!
3^0 sick
by turdle
The child scuttles
Giddy to confess – […]
sock – a poem
by sean
Her socks are much higher than an ordinary girl’s.
The sheer dark fabric so tight on her skin. […]
it’s raining (somewhere else)
by lim yi he
you don’t see what I see
you don’t hear what I hear […]
Choose Carefully
by zoe his
When the choices are all mixed
And our life, nearly dormant
Pray our minds be kept awake […]
Hougang Green
by tan yong yi
Curtain of malachite,
Tangle of green. […]