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Title:
Pieces of a Poetic Family
Description:
When challenged to make an inspirational video using poetry, the freshman class at Peninsula High School in Gig Harbor, WA, prevailed. After composing poems based on Nikki Giovanni's "Ego-Tripping," a small group of dedicated poets, artists, and musicians assembled the best lines, orchestrated fitting music, and photographed several hundred freshmen. They did these things to elucidate and enlighten the soul. All pictures used with permission. (Unpictured freshmen were absent or declined to have their picture taken.) Text of the poem: PIECES OF A POETIC FAMILY I was married to the mountains I was born on the icy caps of Everest, cousin of the clouds I shower in the temperate rainforest My every waking thought dictates daily waterfall I am the sister of sunshine I roam the earth, scorching day with silent night I am so magnificent, so majestic, so superb I am prestigious I was one hundred feet under and cried the Columbia Not only do I travel to Mecca, I live there I sailed across the world tracing lines of latitude and longitude I am inconceivable My gravity aligns moons in ecliptic patterns I reached up and grabbed it leaving fingerprints on its surface The Sahara makes up my sandbox I drove a stake in the ground and split Pangaea I was once sad and my tears salinated the ocean I scribbled on a map with a Sharpie and called it the Black Death I am the creator of pulp fiction master of sci-fi and the reason for popular belief Men created stories of gods because they don't understand me I built the lighthouse at Alexandria I rock I sailed the ocean blue to conceal a world of knowing I took cover in a bunker to conceal myself from an atomic wasteland Atlantis was my bath toy, Poseidon walks beside me I can never make a single mistake except by my appropriate approval Mother Nature bows to me She created mountains so I could touch the sky She created the great lakes so I could splash It was I who laid the first slab of concrete on God's green earth I returned to the homeland and planted fruit for my relatives For them I also brought drums They are often heard as thunder over your world I stand for what in my eyes is true My voice reflects the citizens; thoughts The stars shine with a mere half my radiance
Author:
smithdl
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Poetry, War, Freshman, English, PHS, Peninsula, High, School, Gig, Harbor, Freshmen,
Pieces of a Poetic Family
Description:
When challenged to make an inspirational video using poetry, the freshman class at Peninsula High School in Gig Harbor, WA, prevailed. After composing poems based on Nikki Giovanni's "Ego-Tripping," a small group of dedicated poets, artists, and musicians assembled the best lines, orchestrated fitting music, and photographed several hundred freshmen. They did these things to elucidate and enlighten the soul. All pictures used with permission. (Unpictured freshmen were absent or declined to have their picture taken.) Text of the poem: PIECES OF A POETIC FAMILY I was married to the mountains I was born on the icy caps of Everest, cousin of the clouds I shower in the temperate rainforest My every waking thought dictates daily waterfall I am the sister of sunshine I roam the earth, scorching day with silent night I am so magnificent, so majestic, so superb I am prestigious I was one hundred feet under and cried the Columbia Not only do I travel to Mecca, I live there I sailed across the world tracing lines of latitude and longitude I am inconceivable My gravity aligns moons in ecliptic patterns I reached up and grabbed it leaving fingerprints on its surface The Sahara makes up my sandbox I drove a stake in the ground and split Pangaea I was once sad and my tears salinated the ocean I scribbled on a map with a Sharpie and called it the Black Death I am the creator of pulp fiction master of sci-fi and the reason for popular belief Men created stories of gods because they don't understand me I built the lighthouse at Alexandria I rock I sailed the ocean blue to conceal a world of knowing I took cover in a bunker to conceal myself from an atomic wasteland Atlantis was my bath toy, Poseidon walks beside me I can never make a single mistake except by my appropriate approval Mother Nature bows to me She created mountains so I could touch the sky She created the great lakes so I could splash It was I who laid the first slab of concrete on God's green earth I returned to the homeland and planted fruit for my relatives For them I also brought drums They are often heard as thunder over your world I stand for what in my eyes is true My voice reflects the citizens; thoughts The stars shine with a mere half my radiance
Author:
smithdl
Tags:
Poetry, War, Freshman, English, PHS, Peninsula, High, School, Gig, Harbor, Freshmen,
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