What better way to begin a new year revolving around the sun than with the positive calls to the future in Beverly Finney's poem. She was inspired by North View Middle School's 6th grade artists who exhibited for FOUND - Art of Community at Alexander County Library in summer 2019. The student's instructor, Chris Parsons, exhibited at the library in the fall of 2019.
ME! ME! I WILL!
by Beverly Finney
after Different and Yet the Same
by Northview Middle School
6th Grade Students
with instructor, Chris Parsons
by Northview Middle School
6th Grade Students
with instructor, Chris Parsons
And who among you, my
children,
will step up to change the world,
make of it a better place
than we left it to you?
will step up to change the world,
make of it a better place
than we left it to you?
You, Thomas?
Nalaysia?
And you, eye-in-your-palm, with help
from cool/energetic/funny/tall?
What about you, Addison R.,
who might be a Capricorn like me?
And you, eye-in-your-palm, with help
from cool/energetic/funny/tall?
What about you, Addison R.,
who might be a Capricorn like me?
And Jacob, the
Bojangles/soccer fan?
And gentle kind-helpful-smart,
Mahni-Inside, lacrosse/football/tennis
and mi familia with Kermit the frog?
Will you step up, too, nice-creative-gamer?
And gentle kind-helpful-smart,
Mahni-Inside, lacrosse/football/tennis
and mi familia with Kermit the frog?
Will you step up, too, nice-creative-gamer?
I see you are full of
possibilities, dreams,
an imaginative colorful rush of spirit.
This beautiful Earth, its rainbow people,
and creatures—flying, crawling, leaping—
look to you to clean up the chaos
of those before you, restore compassion,
sharing, the celebration of different/same.
an imaginative colorful rush of spirit.
This beautiful Earth, its rainbow people,
and creatures—flying, crawling, leaping—
look to you to clean up the chaos
of those before you, restore compassion,
sharing, the celebration of different/same.
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