{"id":6129,"date":"2017-06-11T11:38:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T15:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=6129"},"modified":"2017-06-12T09:20:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T13:20:57","slug":"read-a-poem-by-the-new-acps-poet-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=6129","title":{"rendered":"Read a Poem by the New ACPS Poet Laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This year’s ACPS Poet Laureate is Yahney-Marie Bostick Sangare – a fifth grader at Charles Barrett Elementary School.<\/p>\n

Yahney-Marie, who has dreams of being an author and is in the process of writing her first novel \u201cDancers\u201d, was honored by the School Board on Thursday.<\/p>\n

She read her poem \u201cStories\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

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,\u201d said Charles Barrett Elementary School Principal Seth Kennard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cStories\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Stories fill the air<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Like water in the sea<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It always seemed to me<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

That they seemed<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Just too far to away<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

To grasp<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Until the light<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I grab them, catch them,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

And watch them tell their stories.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I see them everywhere;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In people,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Hidden among themselves<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In animals,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In their own coded, quiet language<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Stories drift among us<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Too many for me to even hear<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Every car that goes by in the morning<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Is filled with a story<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Every person in the hospital<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Has their own moments<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I see stories<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

As real as I see people<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Their exterior as apparent<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

As their interior<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

And I yearn to ask<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

What troubles them<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

As their tears fall<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Steady<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Or what made them smile so<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Like the sunlit days<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

That I prance among the meadow<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

And once, after a long time<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A friend is there<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

To quench my need<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

For any trace of a<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

STORY<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year’s ACPS Poet Laureate is Yahney-Marie Bostick Sangare – a fifth grader at Charles Barrett Elementary School. Read her beautiful poem about stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acps","category-charles-barrett"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 17:14:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6129"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6169,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129\/revisions\/6169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}