What Is In A Name?

Junior - 6 Young - 12

What is in a name?

In the initials ROA - quite a bit. We created the three word phrases resilience of Australia, really optimistic alligator, road of apples, ruthless oddities apartment and reddish orange apricot to list a few.

Our Junior Writers names our island this week. After much discussion, we have called our island Pilutkeymon. This stemmed from what we knew, thought and wondered about the island, creating distance from those things by making them into other things and playing around with the order of the words.

Things we know about Pilutkeymon Island
Extremely big
Has two lakes
Has an Extremely Bad Mountain
There are two suns in one place
Discovered in 2022
There’s a pink tree
There’s a bad place and a good place right next to each other
There are lots of spoooky places

Things we think about Pilutkeymon Island
It’s scary and peaceful island combined
There are a million trees
Shooting stars can best be viewed from the south of the island
There is a lost compass

Things we wonder about Pilutkeymon Island
If I can survive
What happens in the dark places
Will we die if we go to the Mountain of Death
What the tree is pink
what is in the middle of the bad place and the good place
why there are two suns
why there is a purple moon
how many shooting stars are visible
why is there a greek style edge to the island
why hasn’t it been discovered before now
what happens if i break the rules

Rules of the island
Everyone who lives on the island has to stay happy
Everyone has to be kind
No one is allowed near the lake
Everyone has to sign a peace treaty or be banished to the Mountain of Doom
Can’t go on the Extremely Bad Mountain or you turn into a rock on the Extremely Bad Mountain.
No one is allowed to take mangos from the trees except from animals that live there
everyone has to eat fruit from the pink tree
when the two suns rise everyone has to do a dance
if you don’t follow the rules then you die

A collaborative acrostic poem about Pilutkeymon Island

Peaceful and scary
I hate this island so much
Life is not scarce as the trees grow so high
Under two suns and a violet moon
Tiny animals
Key is a name of stone in the magical mystical tropics
Everyone needs to follow the rules or else they die
Yeah follow the annoying rules of the island
Monkeys swing away from the Extremely Bad Mountain
Over the night blue sea
Naughty birds fly

Our Young Writers were also thinking about names. We looked inwards, at what our own names mean and our connections to them for the Young Poets Network competition which can be found here.

For these poems we tried to use a Shakespearean Sonnet rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, where each letter represents the a rhyming line.

Continuing to think about names, we were introduced to Lily, but before we could meet her, we had to write down what we thought she would be like only knowing her name and that she had come from the Hoxton Shop of Monster Supplies. Words like purple, white, fluffy and small were offered up, as well as more skeptical killer and not what we stereotypically expect. Lily was then revealed to be a small, plastic cockroach - but maybe she does enjoy flowers and her favourite colour is purple, appearances can be just as deceiving as names, though this showed that names can be a powerful thing to carefully consider when creating a world.

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What Is In A Name?