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Poetry

Emoticons

So what's the point of poetry? Is it a bunch of boring words or a great way to get across what you really think and feel? The best poetry isn't about flowers and rainbows and words that rhyme. It's about people's passions and fears and hopes and dreams.

Here's what some other people think about it.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert Frost

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a speaking picture.
Simonides

Poetry gives you permission to feel
James Autry

You can check out below some poems written by our home grown talent.

Don't Do Drugs

When drinkin everyday becomes normal, and u can't get a grasp of anything formal, and u feel the sudden urge to carry a knife, it's blatently obvious uv wasted ur life.

People give u advice but u don't listen to them, and u blame others but it's u to blame, and now ur startin to depend on class "A" drugs, and u realise ur pals aren't friends, they're thugs.

So u carry on ignorin every warnin and carry on feelin like death every mornin, however you'll still take drugs the very same day, you know it's not just your cash ur throwin away.

But the way u c it you'll soon b old, and the grandchildren will believe whatever they're told, so u can tell them u obeyed every rule, never touched drugs and went to school.

But this won't happen and drugs aren't cool, they don't make u big, just another fool, eventually ur family will b ashamed to call u theirs, soon nobody listens because no-one cares.

Now in ur life there's just drugs and u, but drugs don't make u happy now, just help u get through, and u sit awake, alone and regrettin every single night, wishin u could start over and live ur life right.

Deano

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