'A slam poem exploring what it means to have courage and how we all have courage, although we may not realise it. Courage may be easy to say, after all it’s only two syllables, 7 letters, 4 vowels and 3 consonants, but how do we use courage more than just a catchphrase?
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In 2021 I started experimenting more with poetry and this was one of the poems that I wrote. I entered it in a RoundSquare competition that my school was part of and I was lucky enough to place third with it. For me, writing poetry is a slow process as I find that the best poems are ones led with a large amount of emotion and personal experience. I wrote this poem after hearing someone say “you all must have courage” in a school assembly. It inspired me to write a poem exploring the avenues of courage and how courage can be experienced in so many ways. I wouldn’t define myself as a naturally brave person, it’s something that I have to push myself to do. However, when starting to write this poem, I realised that courage is so much more than just doing something out of your comfort zone, and it can be seen in lots of other actions that we don’t often recognise as courage based. After writing this poem, I reached out to one of my English teachers and she provided excellent feedback on how I could edit the piece further to its best potential. I chose to film it as I believe that hearing the poet read their own writing helps the audience truly understand where the emphasis is.
Photo Bibliography: Courage, dear heart quote written on paper n.d., Photograph, Weheartit, viewed 9 October 2022, https://weheartit.com/entry/325421357
