Charles Waters - I Love Being Me

I LOVE BEING ME
by
Charles Waters

I love being me
With zits in many places,
Tripping over everyone,
Trying to eat with braces.

I love being me
With my frizzy auburn hair,
Day-Glo polka-dot wardrobe
That I carry off with flair.

I love being me
With thick ebony glasses,
Saying hello to flowers,
Attending science classes.

I love being me,
How do you feel about you?
Look yourself in the mirror,
Check out that beautiful view.

© 2010 Charles Waters. All rights reserved.

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Charles Waters is a poet and actor who, among other credits, gave three years of service to Poetry Alive! - an organization that sends teams of performers/workshop leaders out and about, reaching an estimated 600,000 students nationwide each year. Yep - he's a poetry (and prose and performance) emissary! He also currently holds the coolest job ever - a judge at the American Idol Experience at Walt Disney World. But I digress. Though how could I not?

I find that it's hard for me not to feel good when I read his poetry. There's such positive energy, and, as in the above poem, a direct, honest voice that I think kids will connect with instantly. I'm looking forward to much more from him, hope I'm lucky enough to get to see him perform his own poetry one day, and am very excited to have Charles Waters here today at 30 Poets/30 Days.

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