A Poem About Not Liking Poems

By Jake, Age 12 and dyslexic

I don’t like poems I want to be bolder, but I just grow older.

I don’t like poems coos there really icky I spent one hour thinking of this line.

I don’t like poems they’re no fun for me - words are absurd

But if I could read words, poems would be fine.

 

 

The Sad Man

By Reuben, Age 13

I am homeless

My name is..........well I won’t tell you my name

because I've been on the streets so long

I don’t remember it.

I’ve been trying to forget my past

for reasons that I don’t

want to get in to.

Sometimes it feels like a fresh new start.

Other times it comes back

Like a dog rushing at me with a ball.

When that happens I shutdown

And drink to try to forget.

The problem is the next day

I feel even worse

And I still live on the streets.