The Green Garden
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Poetry, Personal, Perspective, Poem, Literacy, Expression, Experience, Thoughts, Ideas, English, Language, Tools, WriterAbstract
A Note on Darren: What distinguishes a writer from the rest of us is his compulsive urge to express his thoughts and ideas with whatever language tools are at his disposal.
In this sense, Darren McCarthy is a writer. He was in my class between the age of 12-14 years. He wrote poetry then all the time. Each day he arrived in with a new poem. Sometimes like a Poet Laureate he wrote on demand in class. I compiled two slim booklets of his work. I was his best fan.
Darren is now 17 years old. He is of quite limited intelligence. He has a reading age of approximately 10 years. He doesn't write poetry anymore. He prefers to write short stories now, based on dream-like situations and fantasy.
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