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Seandy Norelus - Martin Luther King Jr.- The Dream That He Has

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Seandy Norelus - Martin Luther King Jr.- The Dream That He Has

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I have a dream

We refuse to believe

that this lonely island of poverty

Is all we have

We see a beacon of light

Through the flames of  withering injustice

One day we will join hands

One day we will be brothers and sisters

We cannot stand alone

I have a dream today

This hallowed spot will soon be filled with freedom

We will join together and sing

Free at last, free at last

MLK was always an activist but he did it in a peaceful way. I chose these lines to show that MLK was a peaceful activists because he never mentioned guns, fights, and any other forms of violence. He believed in peaceful protests. Also this poem is trying to say that someday, all people will be equal and treated equally someday.

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All living people people should enjoy the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

After fleeing his life as a slave, he joined the American-Anti society.

Some slave owners cared about their slaves.

Crowd says no to protect him.
Some things that Douglass did the crowd was proud for him.
For long times, almost every black person that was in the southern states were stuck in slavery.
Everything was different in the north, almost no one had ever seen a slave.

Meaning:
Fredrick Douglass really was dramatic and us don know what the past really faced. Know this can change the way we see things. Everyone can learn from things that Douglass faced.  This is why I choose Fredrick Douglass and also why I choose these line.  Frederick Douglass by Sharman Apt Russel.

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Paul Ordonez- Frederic Douglas-Deconstruction of Slavery 

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Paul Ordonez- Frederic Douglas-Deconstruction of Slavery 

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So profoundly ignorant of the nature of slavery are many persons

They do not deny that the slaves are held as property

They affect to be greatly indignant at such enormous exaggerations

Tell them of cruel scourgings, of mutilations and brandings

That they are stubbornly incredulous whenever they read or listen to any recital of the cruelties

Such wholesale misstatements, such abominable libels on the character of the southern planters!

Scenes of pollution and blood, of the banishment of all light and knowledge

As if all these direful outrages were not the natural results of slavery!

Than to give him a severe flagellation, or to deprive him of necessary food and clothing!

As if it were less cruel to reduce a human being to the condition of a thing.

The reason I chose those lines is because they express the pain and suffering caused by slavery. Seeing from the perspective of a colored person who lives through the injustice at that time. The deeper meaning is the cry for a more tolerant and equal treatment of a human being regardless of the skin color.

Book- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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Their lives were worth no more than ours
The lash is flying morning till night, all day long
It was a new and special revelation, explaining dark and mysterious things.
I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficult
The miles click behind us
We look out at the wide green fields which our eyes saw when we first came into the world and we feel full of regret, but we are leaving.
The matter of having meals at regular hours, of eating on a tablecloth, using a napkin, the use of bath-tub and of the toothbrush, as well as the use of sheets upon the bed, were all new to me...

The reason I choose the lines for my found poem was because when the lines were scattered from different parts of the book, and each line was used in different context, but one it was put together, it reveals a story of a slave finally escaping for freedom and being able to live a good life. The life that they deserved.

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The Efforts of Frederick Douglass

The abolitionists fought for the slaves

All people living in America,

Should enjoy the rights to life,

To liberty,

To the pursuit of happiness.

For these rights they must remain brave,

Humans will not be sold and traded as property

Human life is not a lottery.

Douglass’s word stirred up the New England crowd,

Change had to be made

Our country would be proud.

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We face difficulties of today and tomorrow.

We hold these truths to be self-evident is that all men are  created equal.

Martin Luther King jr. had a dream.

It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

One day this nation will rise up and live it's true creed.

Until then it was just a dream.

With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony.

With this faith we will be able to work together.

Stand up for freedom together, knowing that  we will be free one day.

Will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Let freedom ring from the hilltops.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies.

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

With this faith one day we will sing together...

“Free at last! Free at last ! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last ! ’’

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The children of the civil rights era.- Elliot Kerr

come celebrate with me.
 what I have shaped into
my kind of life? i had no role model
born in Babylon
 white men and black men
what did i see to be what were my expectations in myself?
i made it up!
here on this bridge between being something or being nothing  I made it. come celebrate
with me that everyday
the white men has tried to hold me back because they are scared of my power.


Meaning:
The deeper meaning of my found poem is to tell black people especially black women that although we are in a world that has marked us invisible we need to keep faith and black joy is important. And self love is extremely valuable. Although I am a black man, I chose this poem because there are not many black poets that have touched my heart like this one has. I chose these lines because it shows how black people could come from nothing with no inspiration and make it into motivation. This is through the perspective of a black girl growing up.

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The children of the civil rights era.- Elliot Kerr

come celebrate with me.
 what I have shaped into
my kind of life? i had no role model
born in Babylon
 white men and black men
what did i see to be what were my expectations in myself?
i made it up!
here on this bridge between being something or being nothing  I made it. come celebrate
with me that everyday
the white men has tried to hold me back because they are scared of my power.


Meaning:
The deeper meaning of my found poem is to tell black people especially black women that although we are in a world that has marked us invisible we need to keep faith and black joy is important. And self love is extremely valuable. Although I am a black man, I chose this poem because there are not many black poets that have touched my heart like this one has. I chose these lines because it shows how black people could come from nothing with no inspiration and make it into motivation. This is through the perspective of a black girl growing up.

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The Efforts of Frederick Douglass

The abolitionists fought for the slaves

All people living in America,

Should enjoy the rights to life,

To liberty,

To the pursuit of happiness.

For these rights they must remain brave,

Humans will not be sold and traded as property

Human life is not a lottery.

Douglass’s word stirred up the New England crowd,

Change had to be made

Our country would be proud.

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Found Poem- Al-Jahmir Newsome
Scorpion  Walter Dean Myers 

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Found Poem- Al-Jahmir Newsome
Scorpion  Walter Dean Myers 

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It was No Freedom
Had no rights
I believe
Everyone should have Freedom
Everyone should have their Rights
People should be free
Whites didnt really care about the slaves
In the slaves deep heart  they didnt want violence
How everyone didnt care about how things were Unfair
Its hard to believe that people that arent the same skin color couldnt have much
Meaning:
The purpose of this poem is to show you how unfair things and how they were and how thinks worked.Also how things were different and had more problems and how people werent allowed to do what they want to do because people didnt have freedom.

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For more than 200 years, White people, especially those in the southern states, used Black slaves to work their farms or do their chores.

Some White people were kind and cared for their slaves almost like family.

George Washington Carver never knew exactly when he was born, but he said it was "near the end of the war"

There are many reasons why war broke out.

It's hard to believe that something as small as a peanut can change someone's life.

He went from being a little-known professor to a world-famous peanut scientist.

Though born the son of a slave, he became a symbol of African American success at interracial harmony.

One night when George was very young, slave riders kidnapped George and his mother.

When George's chores were done for the day, he headed off to collect rocks, insects, and plants.

By the time George was 13 or so, he felt he'd learned everything he could at the school in Neosho.

George lived in Minneapolis for four years.

This was my reasoning because this evidence showed his life story and it showed how he came from being a simple slave to being a world-famous scientist. Also, my poem talks about his life so people could also when and how he lived.

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Douglass’s words stirred up the New England crowd

Few had ever seen or a salve

They believe that owning slaves was sinful

Only a handful of whites in the North

Knew the brutal conditions under which the slaves lived

There could hardly be a better argument for blacks

Then the story of Douglass’s life

Douglass finished his speech and was rewarded with a round of applause

Cheering him for all that he had accomplished

William Lloyd Garrison asked will we let Douglass go back to slavery

The crowd yelled “NO” They promise to protect him

“For the cause of nergo emancipation, and of universal liberty”

I choose these lines for my found poem because it puts me at a state of mind to think about the pain, and suffering the blacks went through, and what Douglass had to go through when he left slavery as well. It made want to keep on reading the book about him and learn more about him as well, with the story on how he was treated by his master, and northern whites. That is why I choose these lines as my found poem - Frederick Douglass by Sharman Apt Russel.

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There is still racism today, and equality is still only a dream for many.

The horrifying event gave racial injustice a human face, and pushed more people across the nation to demand civil rights.

But the courage of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement brought a new freedom to African Americans.

People across the United States watched the stark images of hatred and violence of the segregationists.

There will probably always be ignorance, hatred and racism.

It took the courage of brilliant black leaders.

It took nonviolent resistance.

Breaking down injustice and racism was a journey that took many steps.

The walls of segregation and racism started to crumble in the 1950s and 1960s because of brave people who were willing to take risks of civil rights.

Our society is better today because of the courageous acts of individuals in the civil rights movement.

Meaning: There was a lot of injustice and unfairness during the times of segregation and the Civil Rights Movement. My poem tells how African-American activists like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X that helped black people got the rights they deserved.

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Sweat from night time seine fishing and lobster trapping

Sweat from day time planting and harvesting of produce to peddle

Sweat from chopping and stacking four hundred chords of firewood

When will I be free

Skin and bones out in the cold night

Nearly bald from scurvy

Thirty miles later I made it

Made it to freedom

Made it home

I was free

The deeper meaning of my poem is what a slave went trough before he was free. I Chose these lines because they stood out to me and it shows how an African American who was a slave followed his dream and had freedom.

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They had no rights

Cried out for freedom

Battled racism and discrimination

Separated

Fear of armed racist groups

Continued to fight for equality

Divided by race

Decided to take a stand

Hoped to show the justice

After long and bitter debates

Brutal and savage system

It came to an end

I have a dream

The deeper meaning of my poem is all about what life was like for the African Americans as time passed and it describes how they lived and how they were treated. I chose these lines because they really stood out about the life of African Americans throughout history and the hardships they went through.

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Rosa’s training as a seamstress began at her mother’s knee

She taught Rosa to sew, and also to believe in her worth as a human being

This was a life lesson Rosa remembered for the rest of her life

On her way to school, which was only a short walk from home, Rosa had to pass by the new brick school for white children in the center of town

White students rode to school on a bus, but black students had to walk

A wood stove heated the schoolroom, and the biggest boys carried in the firewood

Overtime, Parks and the thousands of others working for equality did see some rewards for their peaceful, patient protests

Providing Black Children with equal access to public education

The run ins with the laws were not lost on her

The deeper meaning of the poem I wrote is that no matter what separates you from other people, if you try and persevere, you can accomplish anything you want. In my poem, it explains how Rosa started out segregated from Whites and eventually brought them together.

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Found Poem- Voice of Freedom Natalia Nieves 

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Found Poem- Voice of Freedom Natalia Nieves 

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Nobody was gonna take my voice

I never regretted staying behind.

My mother taught me years ago that black is beautiful

The same folks still had us, had us in chains

Same sorry situation every season

Now at least I knew that voting was my right.

There was nothing they could do to me

I was singing for freedom

I was determined

From this moment on I would never give up

I knew i needed to fight for freedom

The deeper meaning of my poem is all about Freedom and how black people really had to fight for their freedom and all their rights that they deserved.

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Rural Michigan looks like a landscape on ink-stained canvas.

The world unrolling like a carpet in front of my feet.

The sun hasn’t come up, but you get that feeling that it’s out there,

Somewhere,

Lingering, like a promise.

And nothing changes, except everything.

And the bus just rolls into the lightening sky.

It made everything worse, the way she fought it.

Mom talked a good game about the power of blackness

But she knew that the white world held even more power.

I used to think things were different, because Papa used to tell me stories

About all the great things I could be and could do

How mighty this brown skin was.

It is like hurting in retrospect

Each repetition of it a pinprick.

A thousand tiny stabs, felt all at once.

But that wasn’t the word that hurt most, it turned out.

The one that sliced me.

Just.

Just....

We can rule again; we can overcome,

We could rule when we were on our own, maybe,

But not in this white world.

Meaning:
The deeper meaning of my poem is to convey the progression of Malcolm X’s thoughts as he is leaving Lansing, Michigan to go to Boston, Massachusetts. I choose these lines because they depict what shaped Malcolm X’s view on the issue of equal rights. He thought this way because of his childhood and parents. Also, some lines sound poetic when it comes to describing the setting.

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“American history has been marked by persistent and determined efforts to expand the scope and inclusiveness of civil rights”
“Civil rights are an essential component of democracy”

“When individuals are being denied opportunities to participate in political society, they are being denied their civil rights”

“They continued to endure the devastating effects of racism”

“Americans had had more than enough of prejudice and violence against them”

“Battled racism and discrimination”“Decided to take a stand”

“It came to an end”

“But today, many thousands graduate from college”

“High-level positions as doctors and lawyers”

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to live equal in a country that’s
supposed to be the land of the
free she lets out a long breath.
deep remembering... but on
paper, things can’t live forever.

bad won’t be bad forever. and what

is good can sometimes last a long

long time. maybe.. i am thinking.

there is something hidden like this

in all of us. a small gift from the

universe waiting to be discovered.

somewhere in my brain each

laugh… tear…  and lullaby becomes

memory.

Even silence has a story to tell you.

Just listen. listen.

I picked these lines for my poem because they were so beautifully written. They pair with the idea of freedom, but I feel like directly talking about it won't have the outcome that I would like, so I decided to do it like this.This poem is about freedom, and how nothing lasts forever, but the good things last longer than the bad. Listen for the silence, and let the memories stay with you forever.

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In Africa, they had been free people,

Now they were somebody else’s property.

They had to do what he told them.

If they didn’t, or if they tried to run away,

They could be beaten or even killed.

Most of Missouri was fighting on the side of the North.

But in the very Southern part of the state,

Slavery was allowed.
Most of his people were uneducated.
Worst of all, they had no hope.

The two  parts of the country were at war.

Despite my book being about George Washington Carver, it also mentions slavery a few times and how hard it was back then. Despite these lines being from different pages, they are all connected to portray one message: freedom. Or at least, the wish for freedom.

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In Africa, they had been free people,
Now they were somebody else’s property.
They had to do what he told them.
If they didn’t, or if they tried to run away,
They could be beaten or even killed.
Most of Missouri was fighting on the side of the North.
But in the very Southern part of the state,
Slavery was allowed.
Most of his people were uneducated.
Worst of all, they had no hope.
The two  parts of the country were at war.

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We Shall Overcome: The History of the American Civil Rights Movement by: Reggie Finlayson

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We Shall Overcome: The History of the American Civil Rights Movement by: Reggie Finlayson

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“We shall overcome.

We Shall overcome.

We shall overcome someday.

Oh deep in my heart,

I do believe

That we shall overcome someday.”

-Song of the American Civil Rights Movement

“We are not afraid.

We are not afraid.

We are not afraid today.”
-Jamila Jones

“Every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword.”

-Abraham Lincoln

“We will win our pay.

Oh deep in my heart,

I do believe,

That we will overcome someday.”

-South Carolina tobacco workers

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It was late in the afternoon of a hot August day in Washington,

D.C. People were tired from a long day of traveling and then listening to hours or speeches.

But the huge crowd facing the Lincoln Memorial applauded a long welcome when the man the most wanted to hear-the reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.-stood up to speak to them.

I have a dream…

-Tricia Andryszewski

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up

Like a raisin in the sun ? Or fester like a sore-

And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat

Or crust and sugar over-

Like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags

Like a heavy load

Or does it explode?
- Langston Hughes

I chose these lines because they explain how important the "I Have a Dream" speech was. It shows how people were excited for the speech and couldn't wait. These lines also shows how dreams in general can go away and never happen, or they can come true. I thought the second part of the poem was well said and took thinking to understand.