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April is National Poetry Month! – by the Honors Poetry Seminar

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Honors Poetry ZOOM - April 2020 - "Remote but together"

[NB’s Honors Poetry students are studying The Imagination during National Poetry Month April 2020

and are proud to present song lyrics and poems that inspire them!

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Special: Gabby Kipp’s sculptures inspired by Beatles songs! [Can you guess the one in the middle?!]

“A Whole New World” from Disney’s Aladdin.

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Walt-disney-records-a-whole-new-world-lyrics (Links to an external site.)

Video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sVxUUotm1P4 (Links to an external site.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M66U_DuMCS8 Whatever it takes – Imagine Dragons

Moon River – Breakfast at Tiffanys Lyrics:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/genius.com/amp/Audrey-hepburn-moon-river-lyrics (Links to an external site.)

– Audio:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QEdPe1SxitI (Links to an external site.)

The Greatest Showman – A Million Dreams (Lyric Video) HD

Dreams (2004 Remaster) Fleetwood Mac

Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey.

when you are broken
and he has left you
do not question
whether you were
enough
the problem was
you were so enough
he was not able to carry it

 

 

Holy War by Alicia Keys https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=holy+war+alicia+keys&FORM=HDRSC3

 

Sana Abuleil. Letters to the Person I Was

 

Shel Silverstein’s poem “Forgotten Language” Forgotten Language

 

Fiona Apple – Every Single Night (Audio) https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/fionaapple/everysinglenight.html

 

Long_Wild_Strawberries Shel Silverstein

 

Miles Carter If you decide to leave someone.

 

Drops of Jupiter by Train (Links to an external site.)  Drops of Jupiter Lyrics