Sarah Oliver
A love of animals and writing made the perfect combination for nine-year-old Fraser Rise resident Myrah.
Myrah, who is in grade four, jumped at the opportunity to enter the Environment Education Victoria (EEV) poetry competition.
The EEV called on school students to write about the platypus in a competition designed to raise awareness about the threatened species.
“I love animals so I decided to enter this competition…to write a poem about the platypus,” Myrah said.
In the rules for the competition, the EEV suggested some ideas for the types of poems kids could write, including a question and answer poem, which gave Myrah an idea.
“So it’s basically…a person asking a question to the platypus…and the platypus would answer back.”
Myrah said when she found out she had won, she was “very happy” and that her writing “paid off”.
“The people who motivated me was my grandma and my mum,” she said.
She also said she wanted to thank her teachers for “teaching me some good writing skills as well”.
Myrah said she loves writing and specifically poetry because she gets to rhyme words and that she will definitely do a lot more writing in the future.
Eventually, Myrah wants to become a vet.
“I want to be a vet because I love animals so I want to help look after them, so I will open my own vet hospital and start a vet clinic.”
