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mmiesse

Poetry - Why to plant a garden

mmiesse
10 years ago

Hello! I'm teaching a college speech class this week about how doing performance poetry can help you become a better public speaker.

They are covering persuasive speech right now so I was trying to find a poem that could be pegged as 'persuasive.' I would LOVE to read them a poem about why one should garden - can anybody point me to one such poem?

Thank you!

I also plan to read an informative poem.

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