Caitlin Polius

Programme: Pre-college & CAPE
(2022 - 2024)
Competed In:
WORRRD UP 2024
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Meet Caitlin Polius

Caitlin Polius is from Rodney Bay, Gros Islet, a community where she values the richness of diverse cultures. She is currently enrolled in the Pre-college/CAPE Programme. Her hobbies include painting, writing, and playing sports. With musical interests spanning K-Pop, K-R&B, R&B, and Jazz, Caitlin aspires to be a playwright and an artiste.

Joining the WORRRD Up Poetry Competition, she seeks to move people through spoken word and visual arts. She considers WORRRD Up as her starting point to hone her craft in the realm of intense emotions and issues that poetry encapsulates.


Caitlin's Work

My Evol

Year Written: 2024
Literature Type: Poem

E-V-O-L
L- learning to rest with you,
Like the alternating seasons, the two, if we count,
Comfort and communicating, critiqued by hand.
I’m compelled. My interests dare to
Hear you, call you, talk to you, ask you
How are you? I’ll invest in you. Please | without interest
But please | with interest.

O(oohhh)- Opened my ears, split my tongue, loudened my voice, took my words.
Entered my heart
Badump, badump, badump, badump
Your footsteps linger in that hall.
I broke down, the dam slowly
As we trust each other helplessly and wholly.

V (Vee!)- virtuous being.
Crimes beget laws,
Morals shattered for a brief pause, confronting
Ourselves we set words of should I, could I, would I, don’t I, and no
To which Yes. It’s no but
Yes it’s you, reassuring myself
That we’re really here and everywhere at once.

E( eee)- emerged
through my jalousies
a soft green light violates you,
Troubles me, crosses before you, and hurts me,
Teases me, hugs you, feeds me
imagery.
Its intensity confused the eye
And mind. Grey matter’s rose-vert veil
I don’t hate you, I want to like you,
instead I love you.

I honored you backwards. I cared for you before I knew what it meant to,
And took a step closer to you.
Again and forever more,
If my Evol Can meet this love of yours.

Written by Caitlin Polius.