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Hi everyone! As you can see, this post is going to be about poetry. I know there are many ideas people already have of poetry that are not necessarily true. For example, that poems are always either about love or death. Sure this may be true in some cases, but there are many poems about basically anything. Most can be very ambiguous and hard to understand, but there are also many that are pretty straight forward. All it takes to start reading poetry is to find a writer or type of poem you like to read. Whether they are about love, death, pain, loss, happiness, nature, or even random things, they can impact many people in different ways. Poems are often very good at expressing thoughts and emotions in as few words as necessary, and this way they can make you see things in different ways that you never thought of before.
Since this blog is for young adult readers, I have a recommendation of a poetry book that I found very heart-felt and interesting. Although you may not and (probably) won’t relate to every single poem in the book, it’s fun to read it and see which poems hit you the hardest. This poetry and prose book, Sea of Strangers, by Lang Leav, is the first poetry book I have read, so I recommend it to those of you starting off. It’s the perfect thing to read before bed or when you first wake up, next to a candle and cup of tea!
