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Submitted by seonag01
Write a poem or story about your home town or country
Think about a story set in the place you know or a poem about its character
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Heroin capital of the UK,
Eyeroll, yeah we know -
Don’t have to remind us,
They made a film about it
Or something.
“Pretty, shitty city,” it said.
We’ve got that street where the piss-ups get featured on the TV,
Lads gurning, off their faces on ecstasy,
The girls are fucking freezing in tight dresses showing off tattooed chests and nipple piercings -
They just want to get in on the interview, ...
Can you imagine a land where
Even the smallest and unlikeliest of seeds
Can sprout root in ever fertile soil
And stretch out towards the stars
Where green leaves shimmer like emeralds
Eternal and resilient, indifferent to time
A canopy rich with life
Providing shade from the unforgiving sun
Even when I am far away
I cannot disentangle myself from that dream
My blood still flows with fra...
i come from a land of heroes and fairytales
but nowadays the myths are all about the resales
I’m from a bonnie place called Scotland
a small village in the highlands
it’s where my heart stays forever
stuck in my old woolly sweater
I’m not your stereotypical Scottish girl
i dont wear a kilt and haggis makes me hurl
I’m not from the city
i think the countrysides more pretty
i love walks by the Lo...
When I was small
About six old
I started to rifle
How I had no real home
I was lost
Told I was leaving the city
For a smaller town and a bigger house
I loved looking for a new house
The whole process
A new realtor friend
The tours and fresh paint scent
But I was afraid of only one thing
A question
What’s your hometown?
Technically I lived in the city
But a year from now I will be growin...
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Write a poem or descriptive piece in which the sentence/line/stanza begins with A. Then B. Then C, and continues down the alphabet.