Today we are looking at folklore.

Write a poem about the seventh child of a seventh child; a figure steeped in myth and mystery.

Play with your lines. Write seven of them.

Do they walk through storms unharmed? Do they rise in a shattered towerblock whern others don’t?

Do birds fall silent when they speak?

What is their inheritance?

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