Most of the writing students do in our programs is in story form. But a few years ago, when we were developing our
Streetside After School program, we surveyed youth and found that they really wanted to write poetry after school. So we added a unit on poetry focused on self and identity to our new program.
A few years later, the youth we work with have written hundreds of really cool poems.
Here's one recent one, by
Timmy Yu of
Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in San Francisco.
Like Me
I am from life,
from the honor of honor.
I am from the place, as strange as yet to be
like the wind and the breeze.
I am from the autumn,
still many from dawn.
I am from the herd
From the red and the blue,
A piston in birth
Please, I am from me.
From the brain mechanic,
From dare of truth.
I am from
I am from a place like me.
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