This 15-year-old's heartbreaking poem is so good even J.K. Rowling retweeted it

You know you must be on to something when your writing gets tweeted by J.K. Rowling herself. SEE ALSO: 11 times J.K. Rowling tweeted awesome writing advice On Friday morning, teacher Kate Clanchy from Oxford, UK, shared a poem written by one of her students. "The kids always write the best poems after they've stopped listening to me," she wrote. "For example, I usually tell them to avoid rhyming couplets because they govern the poem and tend to be comic — but this has heavy rhyme, and it's heartbreaking." Here's the full poem, written by 15-year-old Louis: The kids always write the best poems after they've stopped listening to me. For example, I usually tell them to avoid rhyming couplets, because they govern the poem and tend to be comic - but this has heavy rhyme, and it's heartbreakingpic.twitter.com/dayMTBRUZi — Kate Clanchy (@KateClanchy1) March 23, 2018 Read more... More about Uk, Jk Rowling, Poetry, Culture, and Web Culture source: http://ift.tt/2ufmHZu #Headlines by: Sam Haysom Original Post: http://ift.tt/2ufmHZu https://ift.tt/2GnDyOq
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