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Neverland's Orchestra

We’re a rowdy bunch of misfits No place to call home But we salute our captain Who adopted us all Here in Never, never Land We strive not to age The whole world is our playground All things are our toys We are the Lost Boys of this high school Running through the halls Led by our fearless leader The loyal Peter Pan And we give him our everything Because he does the same With this lot he can sympathize He was once lost, too Never too young to start a fight We scared the pirates away Even the codfish, Captain Hook Keeps far from our Hollow Everyone knows we won’t face defeat The battle is relentless It turns out so are we Peter taught us what we did Came from what we dreamed Inspiration flows through a pixie, our ever- feisty muse Who in the face of fire teaches us To fly When rough waters come closing in We rise and soar above The wreckage on the ground We fly faster than the eagles Who think they’re so cool We’re just a bunch of misfits, but we’re light years from our graves We’re dorks ’cause we’re in Dorkestra But they’ll leave knowing our Names We’re a rowdy bunch of misfits We play loud and proud High school sucks-- We never had to

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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Date: 3/2/2011 6:35:00 AM
Congratulations on your well deserved poetry being featured on PoetrySoup this week Annalee. Love, Carol
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Date: 3/1/2011 4:40:00 PM
God bless the misfits. Without them there would be only a mundane existence. Congrats on the feature. Vince
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Date: 3/1/2011 10:32:00 AM
Yes! I was in orchestra when I was in high school. What might be worse - according to modern standards - I played violin. I never felt like a dork. Values were different then. (1947) Ah, but I never felt like one of the crowd either, and never have since. Like you, I thought high school "sucked." Wouldn't you know - I wound up a teacher. Congrats on the selection. daver
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Date: 1/16/2011 9:27:00 AM
Haha, thank you all for commenting! Actually, I was comparing Peter Pan and the Lost Boys to my high school orchestra. And these days I consider "OrkDork" a term of endearment. =D
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Date: 1/15/2011 10:04:00 PM
Welcome to Poetry Soup.. so enjoyed reading your creative write tonight.. hope your time on Soup will be filled with sharing with luv..
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Date: 1/15/2011 1:03:00 PM
Beautiful poerty, i love it =3 no-one who thinks being in band is being a dork is going to make it far in life =3
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Date: 1/15/2011 11:04:00 AM
Annalee, anyone who calls an orchestra member a "dork" will be in for a rude awakening when they leave the Neverland of high school and enter the real world. Music is cool! American Idol rocks with young talent. Those who think they're so cool better learn some skills or they'll end up on the streets. Very meaningful poem. Best wishes, Carolyn
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