Monday, May 25, 2009

Just Call Her Little Nikki Giovanni: My Brown Baby Tries Her Hand At Poetry



Have mercy, school is over and there's an avalanche of graded papers, old school supplies, and random art/science/social studies projects cluttering literally every surface of the kitchen counters. Slowly but surely, I've been sifting through the collection with the hope that I'll have a stable of places to stash all of it sometime before August, when the kids go back to school. (Yeah, right. Jesus be a Container Store gift certificate so I can get a handle and a clue.) Anyhow, there are some pearls in the piles of papers that I'm seeing for the first time, and one touched my heart so that I just had to share it with you; it's a poem my Mari wrote in her 4th grade class. It's astoundingly beautiful (I say this not only because I'm her mother, but because it's really good); I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.





MY SUNSET
By Mari Chiles


I dream of the sunset
My sunset
With seagulls flying high

I dream of the sunset
My sunset
A color spectrum in the sky

Angels floating around me
With the ocean as far
as the eye can see

I dream of the sunset
My sunset
That is what I dream.


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14 comments:

  1. What a beautiful poem written by a beautiful poet! Wow, only a 4th grader? She's good!

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  2. Beautiful, Mari! Incredibly so. Thanks for sharing.

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  3. That gave me goosebumps! Wow!

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  4. it's great poetry...she's super talented! love it.

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  5. Further proof that these Brown Babies are basically the evolution of us. Well said, Mari Chiles!

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  6. wow, lovely post, she is on her way
    and by the way

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  7. Beautiful poetry. Thanks for sharing.

    Your daughter is wonderfully talented.

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  8. This was so beautifully written, you have a talented fourth grader. Proud Mamma.

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  9. She has her momma and Daddy's gift of words. You must feel especially proud.

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  10. The baby's got talent! This poem is absolutely beautiful. I love how she takes ownership of the sunset.

    So what's going on with those little chics that was giving her trouble?

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  11. you should be very proud that is beautiful!

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  12. She's a poet and you didn't even know it. Get it? Poet, know it?

    Ahem.

    That was really beautiful.

    Winks & Smiles,
    Wifey

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  13. Wonderful and beautiful-her and her poetry. :)

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