6AM Found poem
A task our class completed was a Found Poem activity. Students were required to select inspirational quotes that resonated with them and then, using the phrases, rearrange the words to create a poem. We hope you enjoy a selection of our poems.
Raise up your voice and be who you are,
Keep fighting and don’t give up,
If everyone had the chance not all would succeed,
So raise your voice not to shout, but to help those who no one can hear
Be yourself and don’t change,
It won’t matter, because you are not them
If you were to die tomorrow, would you give up?
Would you fight even if there was the slightest chance you could succeed?
Because to fight is to live, and to do nothing is to be taken
Taken by those who didn’t believe
Annie Cordony-Jones
The question.
You know not what you may be.
Yet one person has made a world of you,
You that is blinded by knowing yourself to be a fool although your wisdom contains the answer to the question.
To be.
True to yourself so there is no false.
Gifted with the understanding of what is useful and no need for what is not.
You have done no one wrong, trusted few and had a unique love for all.
All while following the words “those who stand for nothing fall for everything”.
To be more than just one person to the world.
Or not to be
The fool that thinks to be wise and chooses to fear the man who has practised 10,000 kicks once,
but to be no fool and know to be fearful of the man who has practised one kick 10,000 times.
For the way you perceive it, you must endure the rain to witness the rainbow.
The question. To be. Or not to be.
Emilia Fara
Work for a cause because great things take time.
Never give up after your failures. Learn from them and start again because you can’t cross the sea by merely standing and staring at the water.
Live life to express and enjoy the little things, instead of to impress.
Do not be embarrassed by what stays, let it stay.
Whatever comes let it come and what goes, let it go
You are enough.
Remember, Life is a mountain. Your goal is to find your path, not to reach the top.
Hasika Bansal
First, you try then you succeed
The only way to quit is to stop trying
Failure is your only chance to try again
This time with more success
Just keep swimming through your failures
Never quit
You never know how close you are to success
Catherine Sialepis
The braver you believe you are,
The stronger you seem,
The smarter you teach, the smarter you think,
The more that you dream.
The rainbows only come,
When you put up with the rain,
The stronger you are,
The less the pain.
Everyone has beauty,
You just need to find it,
Not everyone believes it,
But you will love it.
Natalia Gardiner
When the world is silent
we realise the importance of our voices
When we are silenced
one voice becomes powerful
The voices of women are stronger
If women were silenced
nothing would change
The voices of women are stronger
Our hearts, souls and voices
can create global peace
Amelia Abi Abdallah
You will face many defeats in life,
But You have to keep moving
Never let yourself be defeated.
You have to keep your balance,
Life is like riding a bicycle.
You are the author of your own story,
You have to try.
You have to write your own story,
You have to write about your own happiness.
Live your best
Think your best
Act your best
Because there may be no tomorrow
Charlize Saade
Queen Victoria
The possibility of defeat is not on our minds
Nor an outcome we come to
For it does not exist
The way that failure is not a result that arrives
Only success and new learning
Come from our work
Queen Elizabeth II
The price we pray for our deep love
Is the feeling of grief once it’s left
When the hard life comes, most will accept defeat
But the few who fight for our future
Are the ones celebrating their courage
Asha Millward
It always seems Impossible,
until you BELIEVE,
You were given a mind that CAN achieve,
A heart that Forgives and LOVES the worst,
A soul built with hopes and DREAMS,
Live each day like there’s no tomorrows,
Act your BEST and never lose hope,
You are STRONG enough to Live Through Today,
It’s not what I have been through that DEFINES who I am,
The first step is to say that I CAN
Amelia Hone