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Consider this quotation taken from the teacher-training book: 
 
&ldquo;The Core Groups and Bus Groups come to conclusions about the trip: they gather 
together their reports, interviews, photographs, notes, investigation results, articles, 
files, audio files, poems and more that they have produced during the trip.&rdquo; 
 
This passage provides space for you to conclude on what you learned about the 
countries, the human condition, about Africa, the world and about the Poor. And to 
also come to conclusions about what you learned on a personal and group level and 
how this has affected your personality. 
 
Using these conclusions, you will write a poem with a message about what you 
learned on the trip. Reflect on the messages and transform them into simple poems. 
 
To write this poem, you should know some important and useful information about 
what makes a poem different to a narrative text. 
 
Before anything else, you need a reason to write a poem. 
 
What you want to talk about. 
A good subject is one which moves you. This could be a thing, or a feeling. Poetry 
is a form of communication. It could be emotion, humour, friendship&hellip; using what 
you experienced on your travels in Africa. 
 
Freeing words. 
Get a piece of paper and write down any words that have anything to do with the 
subject you have chosen. Try to find other words that rhyme with these words. Don&rsquo;t 
think about it too much. Play around crossing out words and writing new ones. The 
more words you have, the better, because later you can choose the best ones. 
 
The first line. 
You don&rsquo;t need to get the meaning of the first line right straight away. You are free 
to write and re-write as much as you want; move things around and leave only what 
is necessary&hellip; 
 
How to rhyme? 
There are various ways of rhyming words. For example, in a four line poem (A, B, 
C, D), you can rhyme: 
 
A with B and C with D (the first with the second and the third with the fourth), or A 
with C and B with D (The first with the third and the second with the fourth), or just 
B with D (the second and the fourth line). If you follow these steps, it is very 
possible that you will write an excellent poem. 
 
There are also poems that have no rhyming lines, which you are also free to choose 
to write. 
 
Cut 
When you have already written your poem, begin to cut it. Poems are concentrated &ndash; 
any word that is not absolutely necessary can be cut. You may find that your final 
poem is a fraction of what you had at the beginning, but this is okay. 
 
With this short, important lesson, I am sure that you will be able to write a good 
poem. 
 
Enjoy!

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