Passionate writers

Are you a passionate writer like me? I live to be creative. I love writing stories and poems - NOT essays! :D
Here's a poem I wrote for my English assignment. It is based on a scene from Shatterbelt by Colin Thiele:

Disaster Strikes

The young girl’s mind, shattering in the imminent shock,

Her thirteen-year-old heart, trembling in terror.

Tears and fears filled her eyes

As she came to know

That all her friends, her family

Will soon come to perish

If she does not act.

LUCEAT LUX VESTRA, the escutcheon read,

A flaming torch burning,

Letting its light shine.

She knew it,

It was her time

To let her light

Be seen.

The shadow lying halfway past the three strokes,

Perfectly profound

On the weathered face of the ancient clock

That used the glory of the Sun

To tell time.

A sense of warning swelled inside her, a horrifying feeling

That could choke her half to death.

So alert she was!

Her premonitions were true,

She must let them know –

Let them know!

She began her act of rescuing,

As her cries echoed through the hall

Into the ears of every participant of the busy school fete

With her voice struggling

In depths of despair.

But still,

All her struggle

Turned out to be

Useless vain.

Why don’t adults ever believe? She thought angrily,

Why not?

Why not?

The flow of time, ceasing at this very moment,

As everything

Fell silent,

As if all life had dropped dead, just then.

The barking of dogs, whinnying of horses

The many merry songs of life in the South Australian bush.

The faces of humans, ordinary humans

That were weak and weary against the fury of

Mother nature,

Turning to see,

Those unstable mountain ranges

Shivering to her mighty powers.

Here's a preview of my latest novel. I haven't started it yet, but here it goes:
The mission that sent a spacecraft to Barnard’s Star near the Solar System launched in 2063 to search for life forms proved significant results 94 years later, when Magnus, Oasis, Smash, Dusky and Peach, five spectacular extraterrestrial creatures found on a small planet orbiting the star, were brought to Earth, their new ‘home’ – captured by force, that was. They grew up suffering cruel experiments at a place known as the Institute, a world renowned centre researching alien and mutant life forms. Determined to rescue all the victims of the Institute from pain and death, and also to find a life of their own, the five courageously broke free from the Institute’s control despite the dangers that were lying ahead of their unstable futures. At young ages, the five must stand themselves up against monstrous evil casting dark shadows above and in front of them…

How d'ya like it?