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I am the soul of a fiery lion
That can retreat to tears like a newborn kitten

Wrapped in determination I dance through the chaotic lit sky.

Holding close the cubs of my goals, letting no one touch what I alone got.

My mother’s sauce courses through my skin,

Her strong grip held my head on straight

While my father warned me of the snakes that hate.

Vowed to eternity to my one true love

Hand in hand we roam as two newlywed doves.

With courageous young spirit I am who I am,

An olive skin Sicilian

Carrying the work load of a heavyweight champion

Pinning the lazy sloths to the pit of the earth

I am full of vibrance and full of worth.

—Michele Miller, Emily Fisher Charter School Teacher

I am a diamond glacier who looks and stands beautiful no matter where you go.
I am a young, dark, caramel man who stands his ground like a tall tree,

My roots come from my jaguar, she shows me as she runs, jumps, with pride leading me to greatness.

But as l realize, I’m only 5ft 9inches walking through the streets of life of dark navy blue flares

As a diamond glacier I stretch all over the world showing my beauty

Walking side by side with Yvonne Renee Mitchell,

Even though she struggles keeping her home and me safe,

She still runs, jumps with me aside her

Soaring through the sapphire sky.

Cause I am me to my head to my feet,

With warm dark caramel flowing smooth through the diamond glacier and the ocean blue sea.

—Aswad Fitzgerald, Emily Fisher Charter School

I am the daughter of someone’s struggling arms,
The brown arms of hustling to pay rent at the first of every month.

Eat well, sleep well, look well, I let the people know.

Even the oodles of noodles holding me together without the hot dogs.

But because of my loved ones, dying cause me so much grief.

Though I’m a child of struggling arms,

I walk with my head held high, taller than a mountain.

I am what I say I am, 5 foot 5 standing up high

I have to stand for something or I’ll fall for anything.

I am someone’s child,

Black, beautiful, intelligent, and caring

Able to learn from old mistakes

And grow my own strong arms.

—Briana Williams, Emily Fisher Charter School

I’m not lonely travelling this dark and crucial world.
You never catch me running to my mother.

It’s a shame because I’m a still a child.

My heart is too big and my time is worthwhile.

I have all the friends I will ever need: god and family.

Lots of goals that I will achieve.

I don’t depend on no one, never felt I ever did, because I was raised to be independent.

I stand alone in this cold-hearted area.

Now that it has come to my attention I never had friends from the start.

I came by myself, but I might leave with someone.

I’ll have someone to lean on and to be there

No matter how you feel or ever felt

I was never lonely travelling this dark, cold, and crucial world alone, and never will be.

—Briana Williams, Emily Fisher Charter School

When I get to be a star
I will have the best points and the brightest glow

See me fly across the sky, make a wish, and then you’ll know

I can spit, I can rap

I can kick that flow

Take a picture of my life, only me though,

No one else can flick it better for me

Write about this young star past history

I can’t give everything but I can promise you this

1 teaspoon of wit

A pinch of bravery and a sprinkle of guts

I can show the world how to use what was blessed to them

Trophy of honor to those who use them

I’m in the mother land

Egyptian goddess Iris

Sacred land of Kush

Royalty comes easy

Just give it a little push

Blue in my stones, my heels, and my clothes

It’s a royalty color only true queens know.

Again hear me close, blue in my stones, my heels and my clothes

It’s a royalty color only true queens know.

When I get to be a star,

I’ll have the best points and the brightest glow

See me fly across the sky, make a wish and then you’ll know.

—Ashley Neal, Emily Fisher Charter School

Knowing where I came from is still a hefty question,
Story holds I came from

A land of gold and lessons

Shipped to southeast America

A place called Carolina, northside.

I was sold off to a white guy, last name was Neal too,

Then we moved off to Jersey

The capital of course

George Washington won a battle here

Just off the boulevard

Born to be a little one

5’4” far as I got.

My thoughts man, my dreams, my hope, my get quick schemes,

I shot arrows right through the dragon sparrow

Killed it dead right in the heart

I charmed the king

Then he crowned me Madame

Madame of his dreams.

Sucked on chocolate with a taste of brown sugar

Blue is what I see

When I look up at the sky

So smooth and so fly

And always stand out to the human eye.

Smartest mammal in the sea

A dolphin is how they picture me

So sweet and so friendly you threaten me

But will fight if I have to

My nature's only human

I owe that to Michael Jackson

How I speak is like piano keys

How my melody just flows

I make my own tune

Elegance is the only way to go.

—Ashley Neal, Emily Fisher Charter School

A Recipe For A Better World

Welcome to a charming kitchen
Where sometime I be wishin

That crime and hatred

Will leave this earth.

I have a pot

With the world in it

I’ll throw my left arm

In the pot just to see some joy in it

Why can’t we all share some care and passion

Not complete with who’s better looking

Or who got the most fashion

You have to show care to your people

I’ll throw my left leg

So everyone in the world can be equal

You have to be fly as an eagle, expand your wings and let your dreams be the destination

Show no hesitation for what you are going to

I’ll throw in my right leg just to push you through

You are real gifted

Bright like the sun

I got my arms and legs in the pot

It feels like a ton

Get my big spoon and stir it up

Now my world is almost done

I threw in my right arm to fill the world with pride

Threw the rest of my body in the world to fill with love

My body was the fur that kept you warm like a cub

In its mother’s arm

There’s no harm coming to this earth

I made a way

My mind was the wisdom

Heart was the courage

I’ll sacrifice it anyday.

—Jason Baker, Emily Fisher Charter School

I am.
I am a gorilla on a chocolate mountain

I am strong, wise, and smart.

I’m about love with a little bit of hate.

My mission is when I die, I want to get through those pearly gates

Not only that I stand side by side with my family, cause you know I always got y’all back

But when danger comes, its time to pull out my straps

But not with guns or knives but with my hands that god has provided me with.

I am 5’7”, strong as an ape, my skin flows with chocolate

Just like a diamond waterfall.

I am black, I am humble, I am a gorilla that loves to roll around and rumble in the jungle

But only I can be that one because I can protect my family without a gun,

My family looks up to me cause they know I am the one.

I am a say it again I live in a concrete jungle

I’m a strong wise and smart

I am a gorilla and I am humble.

—Dwayne Woodson, Emily Fisher Charter School