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What do we do with a variation?
By James Berry
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PoemYEAR GROUP
Years 5 and 6What do we do with a difference?
Do we stand and discuss its oddity
or do we ignore it?
Do we shut our eyes to it
or poke it with a stick?
Do we clobber it to death?
Do we move around it in rage
and enlist the rage of others?
Do we will it to go away?
Do we look at it in awe
or purely in wonderment?
Do we work for it to disapper?
Do we pass it stealthily
or change route away from it?
Do we will it to become like ourselves?
What do we do with a difference?
Do we communicate to it,
let application acknowledge it
for barriers to fall down?
From Only One of Me.
Why not try...
- watching James Berry talk about the significance of this poem in the video About Variarion.
- discussing the questions asked in this poem.
- and answering the question: What do you think about variation?