Places – a poem from Lam T, 2016 Poet Laureate
PLACES There’s a place. A place with a diluted sense of reality, and streaming hatred for the differences that reigns inside all of us. A place where a mirror is a sharp dagger, and a number means more than anything. A place where ignorance roams and knowledge is chained. There’s a place. A place where love radiates throughout the field. A place where bravery and self-love is encouraged, and where our differences are accepted. A place where trees are grown and fish aren’t poisoned. There are places inside all of us. There are places in the world. Lam T, 2016 Poet Laureate Lam T was a seventh grade student of Vietnamese heritage who attended our program in K-2 at St. Frances Cabrini. She entered a poem in the 7GPoetry contest and won first place for the school. The 7GP contest organization published the poem in their annual anthology of...
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