People are not poetry

You can write for hour on hours of all the things you can be,
But the truth of the matter is simple,
People are not poetry,

And I know that you wish you weren't awkward, That sweet words could roll right of your tongue, But your time here is to short to worry how eacn single sentence is strung

It's okay to be rough round the edges, to be bruised up broken, and scarred, but it's not a reason to let people tell you that it's a reason to change who you are,

Your hair doesn't always sit neatly ,
The way a poem sits so neatly in lines,

And sometimes you may feel like a word, That nobody has learnt to define,

You may not be a star that lights the darkness,
Or a bird that teaches us to soar,

But it's okay , because you are to complex,
To be crammed into one metaphor,

It's okay not to know what you're doing, Since your feelings don't all have to rhyme

Though poem once read is eternal,
you have the freedom to change over time

You're much more than can ever be written,
there is no title to say "This Is Me",

You can't be trapped in the lines of a notebook,
Because people are not poetry.

Biography of Erin Hanson

• 19 years old
• lives in Brisbane, Austrailia
• inspired by nature because she finds things that relate to people
• a little newer to poetry, but still known
• has an anthology of all of her poems called The Poetic Underground

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• writing isn't her main career
• a website called thepoeticunderground.com
• an interview/ meeting online called positivelyglamorous.com

bibliography

• www.positivelyglamorous.com
• http://thepoeticunderground.com/
• www.levien.com