Manifesto

Poets, come out of your closets

and shout out loud

to burn the silence.

Open the windows

to scan the world outside.

Leave your doors wide open

then choose the words that travel far

Don't be so naive:

it's time to reach the summit of soul

and plunge into the unknown

with sharp senses,

defying gravity.

Year 12, class E (on the poem Populist Manifesto n0.1 by Laurence Ferlinghetti)