Poets & Painters 2
(for Omar)
written by: sidonamarie
@sidonamarie
engravers
painters
sculptures
writers – poets
engineers
mathematicians
scientists
doctors – poets
actors
singers
musicians
athletes – poets
indigenous
immigrants
migrants
refugees – poets
philosophers
professors
scholars
teachers – poets
soldiers
policemen
farmers
clerks – poets
the angry
the sad
the hopeless
the hopeful – poets
grandparents
parents
family
friends – poets
Ms Kollar
Justin
Hilary
Omar – poets
endless the list
of those that inspire
and those inspired
through pain and kindness
through rejection and acceptance
through injury and embrace of
the knowledge
the experiences
the differences
the understanding
the thoughts
the ideas and
the moment
of unexpected poetry
in the reach of a closed fist
hiding and releasing a Hershey Kiss
into the palm
of an unguarded open hand
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR:
I am a substitute teacher. Last year I subbed a total of about two months in fourth grade classroom for a sick friend. There was a young man in the class who would not do his assignments. He is very intelligent. He can read 200 words a minute, comprehend, remember, and understand ideas at a deeper level than most his age. We butted heads every day. Then the last day I was in his room, at lunchtime, he walks up to me with closed fist. I did not know what to expect but held out my hand anyway. He grinned and dropped a Hershey’s Kiss in my hand moving away fast. I still have it in my freezer with a note to remember him, and that I reached some part of him.
- Roots and Wings - March 21, 2020
- My Truth (Fierce) - September 7, 2018
- Poets & Painters 2 (for Omar) - January 29, 2018
