True Music<\/p>\n
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Playing an instrument is like reading a book
\nWith each stroke, the plot thickens and creates a hook
\nIt starts off happy, until disaster comes
\nMusic explodes like thunder then is followed by quiet hums
\nCaused by the disaster no one knew would come<\/p>\n
Music begins returning as a hero appears in the gloom
\nSlowly, a magnificent crescendo fills the room
\nFor the hero began the battle with the dreaded evil that lay before him
\nThe song’s intense, as well as the battle
\nBut the hero is winning, and his rival starts to cower<\/p>\n
For the battle is finally over
\nAs peace is restored to the land
\nBoth with song and story
\nBeginning to end<\/p>\n
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Kevin is an eighth grader in Janet Freece’s Language Arts class at Mt. Solo Middle School in Longview. I visited last month and had the pleasure of hearing Kevin and many of his classmates recite their own poems as well as classic poems like “The Cremation of Sam McGee” by Robert Service and “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop. They had also worked on a project “interviewing” dead poets, and turned some of their questions on me. Congratulations to Janet for creating so much enthusiasm in her classroom for poetry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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