{"id":696,"date":"2012-11-06T20:11:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T20:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youthbuildphilly.org\/2012\/11\/06\/where-were-from-student-poem-submissions\/"},"modified":"2022-05-16T20:08:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T20:08:30","slug":"where-were-from-student-poem-submissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youthbuildphilly.org\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"Where We’re From: Student Poem Submissions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students in Ms. Willa’s Language Arts class were recently asked to write a poem based on the prompt, “I am from…” \u00a0The resulting poems revealed that we have some gifted – and courageous – writers in our midst! \u00a0Two students were kind enough to let us publish their poems online and in our newsletter. \u00a0Thank you Marilynn and Lori!<\/em><\/p>\n

I Am From…<\/h2>\n

by Marilynn Boyer<\/em><\/p>\n

I am from pain
\nI am from the home where I\u2019m always to blame
\nI am from the mother who to the streets was a slave
\nAnd a father who forced me to be brave
\nI am from knowledge
\nYet I am from a city where no one goes to college
\nPotential is wasted because life has denied it
\nAs a victim to the streets, all there is is hiding
\nStill I am from freedom
\nMy history is stronger than me settling for being dumb
\nOnce I find my path, my family, I will lead them
\nI will give others hope; something to believe in
\nI am from pain
\nBut one day these streets will know my name
\nPreventing the slain, giving life back to the estranged
\nAnd finding a way to keep the hate refrained<\/p>\n

Where I\u2019m \u00a0From<\/h2>\n

by Lori Brown<\/em><\/p>\n

I am from a place of love\u00a0and hate.
\nI am from a place where you must finish your plate.
\nI am from a place of joy.
\nI am from a place where the girls are outnumbered by the boys.
\nI am from a place where you are taught to obey.
\nI am from a place where you must say yes and not okay.
\nI am from a place of many colors.
\nI am from a place where you only worry about yourself and not others.
\nI am from a place of happiness.
\nI am from a city that shows no love.
\nI am from the city of brotherly love.
\nI am from a mother that tells me to live for the day.
\nI am from a father that tells me to mean what I say.
\nI am from an environment that is negative.
\nI am from an environment that can be positive.
\nI am from that man above.
\nI am from a couple that fell in love.
\nI am from an education system that won\u2019t give help.
\nI am from the big blue sky.
\nI am from a world of lies.
\nI am from a big universe.
\nI am from a place that can not be rehearsed.
\nI am from a very confused place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Students in Ms. Willa’s Language Arts class were recently asked to write a poem based on the prompt, “I am from…” \u00a0The resulting poems revealed that we have some gifted – and courageous – writers in our midst! \u00a0Two students were kind enough to let us publish their poems online and in our newsletter. \u00a0Thank you Marilynn and Lori! I Am From… by Marilynn Boyer I am from pain I am from the home where I\u2019m always to blame I am from the mother who to the streets was a slave And a father who forced me to be brave I […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthbuildphilly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthbuildphilly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthbuildphilly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthbuildphilly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthbuildphilly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/youthbuildphilly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youthbuildphilly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthbuildphilly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youthbuildphilly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}