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Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.

Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.

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I took my mind
(wide as the world)
to school

and they thought me
how to think
small.

My heart
(they couldn’t tame at all) .

I thought…just wait
just wait ‘till I’m not small

and I’ll escape this place

but by then
I had turned into one of them

...the grown ups...

and had to learn

how to be
myself
all over
again.

Dónall Dempsey

Friday, August 24, 2007

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Scarlett Treat 24 August 2007

I think this is one of the deepest poems I have read lately, because our schools REALLY DO downsize kids, and make them think small....and it takes a good while to overcome that force of education and relearn 'how to be ourselves...all over again! ! ' Wonderful poem.............

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