The Importance Of Reading And Writing

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I never was a kid that loved Reading and Writing. Science and History were my favorite subjects from elementary to high school. I always had a problem with grammar and sentence structure, I never understood where to place a comma, a semicolon or a period. It was always funny to me that my favorite part of any English class was when it came down to poems, I loved writing poems it was something about them that freed my mind. I can’t remember my first poem but I do remember that it was the first hundred I received on anything I wrote. Come to think about it I was probably in the fifth grade. From then on I always continued to dibble and dabble in writing them. In the twelfth grade is when I wrote most of my poems, I liked using similes and metaphors. …show more content…
I can honestly say that I still do not care enough for writing to even write a book for children. I don’t possess the proper skills to write for the public eye, I was only given the gift to write for selective eyes such as family, friends, and teachers. Practice makes perfect that is true but I still would not have the confidence as a writer to make public speeches on how I came up with the idea of my first book; nor would I ever be able to get on stage and read one of my poems. I’ll share with you a poem that I wrote a few years ago.
She 's as beautiful as a Catalina flower everyone sees it but her,
She has a personality as sweet as honey and a smile that makes the sun seem brighter and she has yet seen her worth,
She thinks these men love her but all they want is the jewels that she possesses, so she lays with them only because they tell her that they love her,
And then when they leave and never call her back, she realizes that she did what she said she 'll never do again and the cycle continues,
I wonder when she will realize that she 's as delicate as a flower that brightens up everyone 's day when she walks into the room because they know that she 's going to make their day better with just a smile,
She 's as beautiful as a Catalina flower and everyone sees it but her,
She has so much passion in her heart as well as her eyes, and when she stares into space you can tell that she 's

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