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Poetry Essay: I Will Not Be A Lifechanging Experience

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After six google docs, three bowls of grapes, and several text messages to friends, I finally decided what I was going to write my slam poem about. Mr. Brocato kept repeating, “This will not be a lifechanging experience for you, but if it is, then good.” In my head, all I could think was, if I get up there and pull this off, it sure will be life changing. It took awhile to settle on a topic. I kept bouncing around a few different themes like high school, bullying, suicide, and depression. They all had a similar theme, but I chose high school. I know what you are thinking, that is a really basic topic. Sure, it is, but what if I told you we were young again asking for fifty cents by passing cars and Jack was back climbing a beanstalk? We all have had struggles with our transition from middle school to high school, so I thought I should speak the truth and highlight everything everyone else is thinking in their heads but it would be completely inappropriate to say it out loud unless it is an occasion like the poetry slam. The poetry slam may have been somewhat …show more content…

I thought I was the only one but the text messages sure showed differently. Everyone had different worries like what other people would say or what grade they would receive. What surprised me was how people were completely honest and told the truth. If a person was suffering depression they let their words flow out and found an outlet in it to do that. Everyone had a different, distinctive topic which made each of their poems unique. Whether it was highschool, depression, rape, or even coming out they were all unique and told the truth in their

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