Why Do You Like Shadi's Poetry?

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Today’s poems were very interesting, I was very excited to hear my colleagues poems. Starting with the Family Photo poem. To be honest, I was totally sympathized with Einal’s poem. Even though it wasn’t a rhymed poem, and didn’t have many metaphoric it touched me deep inside. Since I know that she lost her father when she was in the 9th grade, so it just touched my feelings. The second poem was English as a Second language, only three of us read this poem. Shadi, Nour and I. actually, I liked shadi’s poem the most, since it had rhyme and it was funny in a way. I choose to read English as a seconde language poem and not the family photo, since I wrote some personal topics in it, and I didn’t want to share it with the others. T the last

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