Published success for Lily Knox!

By Anna Garthwaite | Posted: Saturday August 12, 2017

Lily's work has been selected from over 1000 entries to be published in the Toitoi journal. Toitoi is a quarterly journal of writing and art by New Zealand children, ages 5–13.

The Man with the Violin

Sunken eyes, hollow cheeks, greying sagging skin

Wrinkled musty overcoat, twanging violin

He rests upon the crest o’ hill, peaceful to the world,

holds the bow and instrument, bony hands unfurled.

Hunched he sits, awaiting, but now, he reaches for the strings

A melancholy melody and quietly he sings.

Blotchy skin and shaky breath, through weary, wizened eyes

His crinkled face lifts to the sky, surveys the warm sunrise

The last golden ray pierces the the clouds,

He listens, he sighs, he slows,

Shaking hands unlatch the case of the violin he stows

He does not rush, his aching limbs no longer in their prime

Wrinkles like cobwebs shroud his face

For he is the Master of Time