I used to be ...
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This is a poem saved in my Favourite Poems folder, and one of those I use when teaching young people - and many older ones too - that poetry is not necessarily the rhyming kind we were taught to write in school, often with words tortured to fit the end of a sentence so it rhymed ‘correctly’!
Some poems make us pause. They evoke thoughts; stir the imagination.
I Used to Be but Now I Am
by Ted Berrigan
But now I am elusive.
I used to be the future of America,