Once a month we will aim to showcase some of the poetry we create in our programmes!
This month features some poetry from the Put It In Words Programme we recently finished at St Anne's High School, with Antony Szmierek:
Put It In Words was a project started by PIE, which aimed to get a group of young people together in the midst of ‘unprecedented times’ to express in verse the changes they were collectively going through. These poems celebrate emotions young men are
taught to hide and repress. None of their emotions are edited out, neither is their slang or the way they choose to speak. Over the course of the programme, these young men discussed political issues (climate change, homelessness) as well as their insecurities, hopes and fears.
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homeLESSness
Are you less of a person
With less of a home?
With no one to help,
When all alone.
Are you less of a person
With less to eat?
On the street with no warmth
No heat
Donate to change their fate
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People always tellin me
Respect the ones that are raising me
In and out the system,
Let me tell you in person
Slow down, take a minute
Blow it out
Always on the grind
Know my struggles in time
Now I’m not tryna procrastinate,
Know myself,
Better educate.
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Raining
Drip drip drip drip
Stuck in my room
Im so bored so im listening to this tune
Doing the same thing noon after noon
Raining so hard it just won’t stop
Anxiety so high its ready to pop
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Thanks for those Antony, we look forward to hearing some more next month!