Poetry
An Ode To My Home
By Elmer Aguilar
Vocabulary
Home is a special place, it is a place
filled with joy and smiles,
Where fear doesn't exist.
Home is a special place,
It is the port of my life
Where all my dreams and yearnings came to me.
Home is a blessing,
A place where I can dwell
Confident and safe, forever.
I'm From...
By Natnael Tsigab
Vocabulary
I'm what I'm made to be
Not what I'm supposed to be
I'm the blood drop of my forebears
You can see their history
Through my brown eyes.
The color of my skin can tell you,
The roughness of my hair doesn't lie,
That I'm the small piece of bone
Of my ancestors,
The next history maker,
A descendant from the great Abyssinia.
When I was a child, there was my color
What My Color Means
I smiled even as I am smiling right
By Divalizeth Murillo Now because my color is always my accomplice.
Vocabulary
I think it is how a woman feels her femininity 100%
Maybe this is why the men are afraid to use it.
But they don't know what my color means when a man wears it:
“He is a confident man, and he knows what he wants!”
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In Our Own Words 2016