What are some good topics for poetry that has something to do with RED RIBBON WEEK?

Question

I want to enter this one contest at my school and I need some ideas that has to do with Red Ribbon week? Should I do a point of view of drugs and how it's makeing us suffer? Or is that a bad idea? If you have any ideas please post it here.

Red Ribbon week is in October right? And it does have to do with drugs...at least that's what a lot of people say...right?

Answer 1

I don't know how drugs have to do with the red ribbons. I would do it on nature like the environment, or how you feel about the war. What does Red Ribbon Week entail? I need more information than that.

Answer 2

To touch another reader, a poem should combine something of the writer and something of the world, so you may want to think of a personal story relating to drugs - it doesn't have to be super-dramatic daytime TV, it could be to do with your own thoughts and fears for yourself or a friend. Then do some research: this could mean going to the library, or talking to a counsellor, or looking on the internet, for some facts and theories about your subject. This helps to broaden the poem and give it weight.

You might also consider a poem that is not a story in that way: for example, you could write a riddle where the solution is a kind of drug, or you could look at some old American folk songs and ballads (there are many about deaths involving alcohol) and write a ballad story about drugs.

You could also make a poem out of headlines from your local newspaper that have to do with drugs-related deaths and illness.

There are some very famous poems about drugs: you could look at them, and maybe write a response to them. Keats' Ode to a Nightingale is probably the most famous, but there are many others.

Answer 3

Well, I guess every school is different. It's Red Ribbon week and my grandson's school. The children were supposed to wear red shirts on Tuesday in recognition of no smoking/no drugs. His school has had classroom presentations on it and material was sent home to the parents. The children are also supposed to write about why they won't smoke. There's a lot of info on it on the web, but nothing that I could find that could really explain substance use to little children.