© Charlie Jordan 2010

Charlie Jordan

Radio presenter, poet, event host and workshop facilitator

‘Anything Is Possible’

 What do you want to be, when you're older and leave school?

 Someone who's a celebrity, and effortlessly cool?

 Maybe you'll be a footballer like Ronaldo on the pitch?

 You could be like Wayne Rooney, be worth millions, really rich:)

 Score goals like Steven Gerrard and dream of Cup Finals played at Wembley.

 (Make sure you don't shout, 'on my head' to your teacher in assembly!)

 Or perhaps you'd be a footballer's wife and shop like Victoria Beckham.

 How many designer outfits could squeeze into your wardrobe, do you reckon?

 Could you walk all day in those spray on jeans, and four inch high stilettos?

 Paparazzi shouting your name, like your Mum, with a thousand echoes....

 You can be anything and anyone you heart most longs to be....

 With imagination, inspiration and the means of poetry.

 Write the world as you'd wish it, how you dream that it could be.

 Where you could pick chocolate whenever you fancied it, like leaves from a chocolate tree.

 Where untidy bedrooms disappear with Harry Potter's Cloak of Invisibility.

 At school instead of books you'd have lessons on Nintendo Wii...(Or Playstation 3...)

 You could dance and sing like Gabriella and Troy in High School Musical 3.

 Eat sweets instead of vegetables, scoff Haribo fried eggs for tea!

 This is the power of poetry - just with paper and a pen,

 think of a million ideas, scribble them down quickly and then...

 Speak your words aloud with conviction, lift them off the page.

 Pretend you've just won the X Factor and you're standing on a stage....

 You're enjoying the adulation, and the applause of a buzzing crowd.

 They're clapping you and cheering you, your family are so proud.

 Poetry can be a passport to escape your bedroom's four walls.

 You can travel on a spaceship, making intergalactic mobile calls.(Or texts!)

 Or go down under to Australia, go surfing with a Kangaroo....

 Or cuddle a koala bear and make friends with an emu.

 Describe how hot the sand would feel on the beach beneath your toes,

 And don't forget your sunglasses, and sun block for your nose.                           Continues...