2012 School Magazine

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MORE POEMS FROM ISABEL BACKSTROM 11/1/1111\

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in those days. the leaves rustled. and only the trees remembered the good times People live only In silent terror Happy memories coerced away The 'Fuhrer 15 all their minds will take In

I11/11'I itI How beautiful 15 the spiders web. when covered in the dew it sparkles in the morning light and glows beneath the moon The fairies use it for their cloth and when the time has come. They use it to make sails upon Their boats. when fishing dreams

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I wish I had a Racing Car to drive around and round I'd practice hard - and win It at to be the best in town I wish I had a dinosaur He'd be my favourite pet Together we would growl and ro and be the best of vets I wish I had a robot Just to do my chores He'd cook my food and wash my clothes. which 15 always such a bore

with the new regime of single-minded hate A black spider on bloodstained snow Yet who can see through his web of deception? A little girl her head forced high. marched along in the heavy parade But even behind the wall of standards she cannot hide the star in her heart

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Flowers blossoming Blooming all over my page The season of love New beginnings come to me The world comes alive again

I wish I had A fairy. A princess doll as well I'd calt the princess 'Mary and the fairy Tinker bell I wish I had A mother or a Father-that'11 do To luck me in and kiss goodnight. and take me to the zoo I wish I had A million things Just to call my own But 111 never have them. here with me - Abandoned and alone

She does not have the nose or the eyes Her figure 15 no different. but for the fright In her stance

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Those who were Her friends-stained Those who are Her family- gone She has no life left.

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But for death as her life 15 burnt

along with the books Why? Moans the wind How? Cry the trees. Where does this cruelty come from?

Poetry 15

the language of feeling love. hope. devotion.

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anger. jealousy Creating peace and unrest Flowers and beauty bto0m off such a page

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IN^I Cold. lifetess buildings. F1tt up a grey horizon. Claustrophobia

And as water flows down a stream So to 15 Ink flowing onto a page

initll Ever in life. He sought to achieve. The Impossible deeds. set by Herectes And so he achieved them -all but one Eternal Life Or has he?

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