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21 June 2022

Posted by Tabby Hayward

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This week, in preparation for the Foyles Young Poet of the Year competition, we were looking at poetry.

To warm up, we came up with what we would be if we were an animal, a food, a kind of weather, place, plant, colour, flavour of ice cream or kind of music. Then we added in specific emotions/scenarios - what we would be if we were angry, happy, frustrated, tired, excited, sad, with friends, or at home.

Then we turned these into poems of ourselves:

By Zoe: 
When I’m happy I would be…
Sunshine on a rainy day,
A tropical island in the Worst of times,
A jewel incrusted crown on the head of someone new,
A teddy bear providing comfort in the night,
And a sunflower looking over the world.

 By Aurora:

I own the grey days. I live those husky shadows
that call themselves clouds in the tourmaline sky,
from their first conception in the choppy north seas
to their delicate intensity of cloudburst as they
cry. I own this, this burden on my shoulders:
the lone gull defending itself from the cursing winds.
My wings are locked and I’m trying to glide,
ready for the inevitable fall. Alone.

 It's not a good day to go outside. I’m the kind of day
where your umbrella is leaning in the wardrobe
corner, and the rain picks up just as you reach
the sea cliffs of Devon, grey as a greyhound,
yet slower than the landlocked gull I move, tired
with the solidarity. You rush back to your car,
ashamed and afraid, cursing the open sky.
I own this. The burden of my tears on your shoulders.

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