Here's a prayer to the freaks, the geeks and the outcasts
You diamond pariahs, and unwashed gems
You who've earned a lifetime of scars
And learned to wear adolescence as your albatross
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The real tests don't come with a pen and paper It comes in your ability to bend or stand unyielding....outstanding conceptualization. This poem for kids entering or returning to school has been so incisively and nicely delineated by you. Beautiful poem. Thanks for sharing.10
Part 2- - - - - - I so enjoy seeing people enjoy learning how to write and doing so opens their life up to so much more joy, understanding, and fulfillment. Strong and valuable stance taken here. Well done- -definitely well-felt. 10+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
You have delineated the agony that some children go through and adults don't seem to see it for some odd reason. I have never and will never understand the attraction of being a bully- -we at our age in life still see bullies at work in PH and it disgusts me.
This goes right to myfavourites, Kevin. Brilliant! We are all social, and despite claiming to work for equality, we seem to be most comfortable with hierarchy. There's nowhere like high school to get a sense, a profound taste, of that social hierarchy. And no matter how much we seem to advance in age, there is something in social organization that conspires to send us back to the 'freshman' stage, roughly every five years. This is one of your finest, Kevin.