songs and poems

  New Roman" size=3>Why read,and sometimes even write poetry?That question is not difficult to answer if we change the word poetry to songs.

    I sing when i feel good.When i sing my favourite songs,i feel even better.Sometimes when i am listening to music ang to the song words,i feel that it was written for me.A good song always makes me feel something.There songs that i sing in my head between classes and songs that i want to sing when the school bell rings by the end of the day.

   They are like bright and warm colours in the middle of greys and shades.I like songs about love and friendship.The extraordinary thing is,my feelings are more special when i sing my favourite  songs in English.

   I also like reading.I used to avoid poetry until an e-pal told i should recite poems and not look up the meaning of the words.Poetry uses many difficult words and idioms,but the best thing is to just  forget about them.In the beginning i feel quite strange.Now i always lock the door.Reading aloud gives you a strange feeling,but when you have some practice and fall into the rhythm,the rhyme and the sounds of the words,it is really a special experience.

   I started with small poems,but now i think i most like long poems.I have different feelings with different poems.When i have had a bad day at school,i read Keats and forget eaerything.When i am sad i read Wordsworth by the light of a candle.When the poem is finished,i close the book and my sadness is gone.

(from Senior English Book,2A)