{"id":453,"date":"2022-10-23T21:34:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T19:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leseclub.rg18.ac.at\/?p=453"},"modified":"2022-10-23T21:34:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T19:34:27","slug":"poet-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leseclub.rg18.ac.at\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"Poet X"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Reading the class reader \u201cPoet X\u201d by Elizabeth Acevedo has inspired 6AB students from Ms. Siquans\u2019 English group to write their own pieces of poetry. Read on and be inspired yourself!<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Some people<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n
Some people tell us to change<\/span>
They expect perfect children<\/span>
Perfect lives <\/span><\/p>\n
Some people tell us to stay the same<\/span>
Don\u2019t acknowledge the urge to learn<\/span>
Don\u2019t let us grow up <\/span><\/p>\n
Some people try again and again<\/span>
They\u2019ll never be who they want them to be<\/span>
Still, they try so they can be loved <\/span><\/p>\n
Some people will never be loved. <\/span>

(Nicolas)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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3 Haikus<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>
Knowledge in the past<\/span>
Grain of salt stay very close<\/span>
Stories told at dawn<\/span> <\/span>

Path runs with desire<\/span>
Firefly is free to go<\/span>
Fall spreads from the sky<\/span> <\/span>

Hear beats gently yet<\/span>
Rising sun discover all<\/span>
Ice wraps in the light<\/span> <\/span><\/p>
(Anastasia G.)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
I decided a long time ago<\/h3>\n
That there are things in live you just can\u2019t change. Your beloved once will die some day and you can\u2019t do anything against that. Some people will come into your live and other people will go out of your live as they were never there. The clock will always tick, and you can\u2019t do nothing against it. Your live will always continue until you die and there is absolutely nothing you can do against that, you are not capable of freezing time, so I try to enjoy every last second of it. <\/p>\n
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They say <\/span>
I have to connect with my environment again. <\/span>
They say <\/span>
I have to perform for my own benefit. <\/span>
They say <\/span>
I have to show good-will. <\/span>
They say <\/span>
They are worried about me. <\/span>
They say <\/span>
So many things that I know aren\u00b4t true. <\/span><\/p>\n
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Simon Says <\/span><\/p>\n
I am supposed to set up the table, <\/span>
My mother says. <\/span><\/p>\n
I should go to school, <\/span>
The government says. <\/span><\/p>\n
I must run ten rounds, <\/span>
My teacher says. <\/span><\/p>\n
I am expected to sleep eight hours, <\/span>
My body says. <\/span><\/p>\n
I have to study or am going to be a failure, <\/span>
My conscious says. <\/span><\/p>\n
I should go to the party, <\/span>
My friend says. <\/span><\/p>\n
I ought to listen to them, <\/span>
My brain says. <\/span><\/p>\n
I am supposed to be more cheerful, <\/span>
The girl says. <\/span><\/p>\n
Everything is just fulfilling orders.  <\/span>
I say. <\/span><\/p>\n
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Haikus<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong>
<\/strong>In the dining room 
Of course, listening to you 
And only to you. <\/p>\n
What is a haiku 
It is so complicated 
But you will just see. <\/p>\n
Who am I right now? 
Hey, it\u00b4s me who you are now 
Hell no, please just go. <\/p>\n
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Night Before First Day Of School<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My night before the first day of school is always very long. My sleep schedule is always very late, because of the summer holidays. Usually I\u2019m very happy when the new school year starts. My clothes and my backpack are all ready. Lying on my bed at 2am I can\u2019t get any sleep, because of the many thoughts crossing my mind. Thinking about many unnecessarily things and excited to meet my friends I was already dreaming all of a sudden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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How I feel about being alone\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
Being alone is about being free,\u00a0<\/span>
Safe from anyone\u00b4s gaze or judgement,\u00a0<\/span>
Time to give into our longings,\u00a0<\/span>
Dancing, screaming, singing, crying\u2026\u00a0<\/span>

To be alone can feel too good,\u00a0<\/span>
So good that it becomes a habit.\u00a0<\/span>
You skip social gatherings with friends,\u00a0<\/span>
Just to be at home without anyone.\u00a0<\/span>

Before you can even realize it,\u00a0<\/span>
You\u00b4ve been absent one too many times.\u00a0<\/span>
Friends talk about events you can\u00b4t recollect,\u00a0<\/span>
You\u00b4ve become lonely and the odd one out.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>

Still people need time alone,\u00a0<\/span>
To reassess after talking to people,\u00a0<\/span>
Thinking by themselves without help,\u00a0<\/span>
Getting to know the person they live in.\u00a0<\/span>

Be careful when you\u00b4re alone.\u00a0<\/span>
It is a drug too easy to use.\u00a0<\/span>
Loneliness comes slowly and lethal,\u00a0<\/span>
But too many people are a sickness, too.\u00a0<\/span>

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Questions I Have\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>

Even with all these rules I set for myself.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span>
\u201cDo what you want\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span>
\u201cFind something YOU like\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span>
\u201cTurn your passion into your job\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span>
I don`t know what to do.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span>
I don`t know how.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span>
And I don`t know who to do it for.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span>
Is it worth the risk?\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span>
Yes, you only live once, but what if that`s my sign to stop?\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span>
That I must stop wasting this one life I`ve got left.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span>
What if it doesn`t work out and I end up as less than I am now?\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span>
I have so many questions.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span>
So many that I think\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span>
It might be better not to answer them.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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I like the way I live, I got used to it by now<\/em><\/span>\u00a0
<\/span>Every day getting off from school, start my
<\/em><\/span>Life-work balance flow.<\/em>\u00a0
<\/span>But actually, I\u2019m not into this I\u2019m working hard all-day<\/span><\/em>\u00a0
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And finally, I\u2019ve reached my top<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>
So, I\u2019m not wait\u2019n to get my spot
<\/em>To get my life ahead<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>
I\u2019ve gotta work harder yeah,<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>
so be it. <\/em>\u00a0<\/span>

(Moritz Klepp)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Night before the first day of school<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
It\u2019s the same every year. I carefully pick out an outfit for tomorrow put the prettiest nail polish on that I have, to \u201cmake a good impression\u201d as if anybody really cared or even noticed. I tell myself that this year it was going to be different. I\u00b4m going to get organised like my teachers always tell me and I\u2019m going to do all my homework. But in reality, I know by the end of the week the pretty nail polish will be all worn off and I will have wasted all my good outfits and I will fall back into the old pattern. Like I do every year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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I’m afraid to show something of myself,\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
because I know that soon it won’t be \u201cme\u201d anymore.\u00a0<\/span>
So I hide in the shadows of others and wait until I am fully myself,\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
forgetting that I cannot grow without sunlight.\u00a0<\/span>
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Night before the first day of school<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>

Tomorrow my tenth year of school is starting,\u00a0<\/span>
My sleep is full of worrying dreams,\u00a0<\/span>
All made of challenges I cannot face.\u00a0<\/span>

I wake up after feeling overwhelmed,\u00a0<\/span>
The dream didn\u00b4t end with waking up,\u00a0<\/span>
The world is still in danger because of me.\u00a0<\/span>

\u201cIt\u00b4s over,\u201d my parents told me,\u00a0<\/span>
No meteor is crashing down, ending everything.\u00a0<\/span>
I run back into my room, hiding under the covers.\u00a0<\/span>

Tomorrow is just the first day of school.\u00a0<\/span>
The world isn\u00b4t ending because I failed to save it.\u00a0<\/span>
Although, the summer, freedom, has come to an end.\u00a0<\/span>

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