Deforestation (Original Poem)

Hey friends!

During my Arts Entrepreneurship class today, I got inspired for a poem idea about how we're losing arts in our schools. I'm super passionate about keeping them in schools and I want to work hard to do so, so I thought I'd share what I wrote with y'all. If you agree with these statements, please share this post on social media so that we can get the word out about this. Art cannot be left out of curriculum!! Thanks! Enjoy the poem. :)

Love,

Noelle

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Deforestation

They say the arts are dwindling

I say we just need kindling

For the fire under the artists

Desperate for their stages again

They need their opportunities

To see the possibilities

Of what could be done within schools.

These children need inspiring

To see what they’re aspiring to be

They want to have purpose

They want to see change

But what’s going to happen

When no one will give them a stage?

We beg for arts in our schools

We plead not to drown in the pools of white noise

Surrounded by mindless drones

Of emotionless clones

Created by the burying of feeling

Watching creative kids keeling over

After losing the opportunity to create

Is this what you want?

To see the artistic world die?

Because that’s what you’re doing by taking away

The kid’s ability to think and to say

What’s going on in their mind

What’s going on in their heart

They’re losing their self-expression

When you remove art

Have you seen the impact?

Have you seen the joy

When a kid views art

As more than a toy?

They start to have confidence

Beaming through their smiles

They start to run with it

They start running for miles

They learn to love themselves

And how to cope with life’s struggles

Instead of just falling apart

After trying to be jugglers

Don’t you see?

We need art in our schools.

Too many people already go through life

Struggling through trials, tribulations, and strife

With no real outlet to just be free

So please understand, just listen to me

Don’t take away theatre,

Art,

Band,

Dance,

Choir,

Graphic Design

Please don’t print that contract

Don’t get ready to sign

Just look at that child

Look in their eyes

And try to tell them

“You’ll have to disguise

All your feelings, your hurt, your emotion.

Slather on a ‘normal’ face as if it were lotion.

Don’t be creative.

You’re not allowed to be free.

Your self-expression is getting cut down like a tree.”

Do you really want to deal with deforestation again?