{"id":3489,"date":"2019-09-24T10:37:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T09:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2019-09-25T15:29:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T14:29:53","slug":"creature-discomforts-poetic-and-visual-responses-by-plashet-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/2019\/09\/24\/creature-discomforts-poetic-and-visual-responses-by-plashet-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Discomforts: Poetic and Visual Responses by Plashet School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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These poems were written by students from Plashet School, in East Ham, London, in response to some of the strange and amazing hybrid beings they created in the collage activity, during the summer term’s schools workshops<\/a>. They really capture some of the fascination, and fearful mystery, that the natural world can hold for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TIME<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time.
They say it heals you, but does it really?
Remember when you were a child,
Innocent and chubby faced,
With a solution to every problem you faced.
Not a care in the world,
Your hair nice and curled,
And a love for all the human race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But now, you are riddled with fear.
\nFear for your health,
\nFear for work,
\nFear for your wealth.
\nYou fear the human race,
\nYou have problems you can\u2019t face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You try to carry yourself with grace,
\nBut it just gets harder as you age,
\nSo again,
\nTime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They say it heals you, but does it really break you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FIGHT<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

White wings stain black
Rays pierce my soul.
The moon turns pale and hides away.
Seas roar, waves lift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We raise our swords to the dim sky,
\nCharge forward, charge back.
\nNo mercy, no escape.
\nScream and shout, it is the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cut and slash \u2013 shed the blood,
\nTo stain the perfect ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These beasts won\u2019t give up;
They won\u2019t back down.
So fight.
Fight till we fade away\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE BEAST BEFORE ME<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The beast before me,
A horrendous sight,
Waiting to peck me,
Or grab me,
Or fly away,
Who knows\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spider in one claw
\nThe other tucked behind his back,
\nA decrease in oxygen.
\nThe beast before me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The beast before me,
\nSo lifeless in his eyes,
\nStanding in his gown,
\nFlapping his fins in fear,
\nAnother watching from above,
\nThe decrease in oxygen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both waiting
\nFor a move\u2026.
\nThe beast before me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These poems were written by students from Plashet School, in East Ham, London, in response to some of the strange and amazing hybrid beings they created in the collage activity, during the summer term’s schools workshops. They really capture some of the fascination, and fearful mystery, that the natural world can hold for us. TIME… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3489"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3526,"href":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions\/3526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}