Entry #9 Writing project: Refugees

Part 1  

We refugees 

 We Refugees | A Benjamin Zephaniah Poem from Red Café on Vimeo.

We Refugees

I come from a musical place

Where they shoot me for my song

And my brother has been tortured

By my brother in my land.

I come from a beautiful place

Where they hate my shade of skin

They don’t like the way I pray

And they ban free poetry.

 

I come from a beautiful place

Where girls cannot go to school

There you are told what to believe

And even young boys must grow beards.

 

I come from a great old forest

I think it is now a field

And the people I once knew

Are not there now.

 

We can all be refugees

Nobody is safe,

All it takes is a mad leader

Or no rain to bring forth food,

We can all be refugees

We can all be told to go,

We can be hated by someone

For being someone.

 

I come from a beautiful place

Where the valley floods each year

And each year the hurricane tells us

That we must keep moving on.

 

I come from an ancient place

All my family were born there

And I would like to go there

But I really want to live.

 

I come from a sunny, sandy place

Where tourists go to darken skin

And dealers like to sell guns there

I just can’t tell you what’s the price.

 

I am told I have no country now

I am told I am a lie

I am told that modern history books

May forget my name.

 

We can all be refugees

Sometimes it only takes a day,

Sometimes it only takes a handshake

Or a paper that is signed.

We all came from refugees

Nobody simply just appeared,

Nobody’s here without a struggle,

And why should we live in fear

Of the weather or the troubles?

We all came here from somewhere.

Zephania, B. We refugees. Medium: https://benjaminzephaniah.com/rhymin/we-refugees/?doing_wp_cron=1600611113.8606228828430175781250

Refugees

Bilston, B. [@brian_bilston]. (2018, Marzo 21). Here’s my poem ‘Refugees’ for #WorldPoetryDay [Image attached] [Tweet]. Twitter. 

Part 2

Padle made by: Franco Florencia and Sanguinetti Agostina 

Sources 

Thesis Statements: Four Steps to a Great Essay | 60second Recap®. (2014, November 4). [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R0ivCaLtnY&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=60secondRecap%C2%AE 
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How to Write an Effective 5-Paragraph Essay: Formulas for 5-Paragraph Essay. (2012, May 27). [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=GwjmMtTVO1g&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=DavidTaylor 
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Metacognitive analysis

I found this entry very rich and challenging. Rich because of the topic, the refugee crisis is not only interesting but it is something we should all be aware of. Then, it was challenging because I am not much of a poetry reader, for that reason analyzing poems is not really my strength but I always found it to be a very enjoyable task.