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The Awakening Age - Ben Okri
The meridian line links cultures and communities without division and I was inspired by the idea." Ben Okri, Booker Prize-winning author, wrote a poem for On the Line."

Poems sent in to the On the Line Web site
These poems were sent in by visitors to the On the Line web site or noticeboard.

• Time and friendship, Valerie van den Berg
• Poem, Hilary Peters
• Millenium, Darrell Bolger
• News, Danijel Lozancic
• Millennium poem, Laura, aged 12
• What's wrong with our world? Trusha, Gillian, and Sandeep
• Millennium peace, Hafsa and Emma, aged 11
• Millennium poem, Anon
           more poems from Queen Mary's High school
• Acrostic Poem, Hattie, aged 8
• Money, Salimu, aged 14
• The Merciless Cholera, Jamila, aged 15
• The Market, Fawziya, aged 14
• What a World!, Anon
• Death, Vivian Abolek
• Love for love, Abdulai Hamza
• The World, by s and c
• Swallows, by Lizzie
• Millennium Wish!, by Claire and Bettina
• My poem to the world, Louise
• Peace of mind, by Robert M Hensel