Read a Poem by the New ACPS Poet Laureate

This year’s ACPS Poet Laureate is Yahney-Marie Bostick Sangare – a fifth grader at Charles Barrett Elementary School.

Yahney-Marie, who has dreams of being an author and is in the process of writing her first novel “Dancers”, was honored by the School Board on Thursday.

She read her poem “Stories” to the audience. She said that the hardest part of writing the poem was making her free verse poem flow correctly. She asked her friends to review it before entering the poem in the competition.

I am thrilled that Yahney-Marie is being recognized for her literary talents again this year. Yahney-Marie’s writing has always had such a beautiful voice and unique style that is beyond her years. We have been so lucky to have her as a student here and are looking forward to seeing what she will accomplish in future years as she moves onto middle school,” said Charles Barrett Elementary School Principal Seth Kennard.

“Stories”

 

Stories fill the air

Like water in the sea

It always seemed to me

That they seemed

Just too far to away

To grasp

Until the light

I grab them, catch them,

And watch them tell their stories.

I see them everywhere;

In people,

Hidden among themselves

In animals,

In their own coded, quiet language

Stories drift among us

Too many for me to even hear

Every car that goes by in the morning

Is filled with a story

Every person in the hospital

Has their own moments

I see stories

As real as I see people

Their exterior as apparent

As their interior

And I yearn to ask

What troubles them

As their tears fall

Steady

Or what made them smile so

Like the sunlit days

That I prance among the meadow

And once, after a long time

A friend is there

To quench my need

For any trace of a

STORY

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