If you ____ the time to listen carefully to the words of the best rappers – people like Eminem and Jay Z, and some of the ____ rappers too, like Lil’ Kim and Missy Elliott – then you’ll realize how good they are. It isn’t just poetry, it’s ____ poetry. In fact, I’d say that some of them are the ____ poems being written today. Seriously, that’s my ____. Now a lot of people say that young people are no longer ____ in great poetry. But that’s wrong, isn’t it? A lot of teenagers listen to rap music and rap can be great ____ – even though some people don’t look at it like that. So I’d say that in ____ ways, poetry is more popular than ever among young people You know the ____ I hate most? They’re the ones you get in greetings ____ – birthday cards, Mother’s Day cards, that kind of thing. I mean, a poem has to be ____, doesn’t it? To be a good poem, it has to come from the writer’s ____ and contain some real ____. It has to be about why the ____ loves a particular man or woman – or why the poet is feeling ____ sad. These poems in greetings cards are all the ____. ‘I hope your birthday is full of fun … er … You really are a wonderful son.’ That kind of rubbish. I suppose people actually have to spend ____ writing them. Imagine doing that job! It would be so depressing, wouldn’t it? Writing ____ every day. We’ve been looking at some ____ poetry at school, in our English classes. Some of it is OK but to be honest, I’m not ____ on most of it. I just don’t ____ it. I mean, half of it doesn’t even ____ anything! Or at least, I can’t ____ what it means. It just seems like ____ words. Poetry didn’t use to be like that. In the past, it was always ____ what the meaning of the lines was. And usually, it rhymed too. For me, that’s what poetry should be like. That’s the skill of the poet, isn’t it? If you don’t worry about meaning or ____, then you can just write anything and call it a ____! ‘A leaf on a tree … the sun shines … water flows … life goes on.’ There, that’s a poem. Huh!

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