Q1 Poetry Benchmark
The Truth Behind Kente (reveal a truth)
Kente is a piece of me
Loving its colorful energy
Knowing you’re more powerful
Wearing a piece of cloth
Living up to your all
Knowing you could never fall
I am Africa American
I am proud
I will stand up and say it out loud
Being black is amazing
Bet my ancestors are proud
Of who my mom is raising
Alive and well
I am praising
I am black and proud
Even in the biggest crowd
My Kente cloth will stand out
Not What You May Think! ( asking a question)
Africa? The place you may think is awful
Africa? Hot and dirt roads
Africa? A place you could never call your own
Africa? A place that doesn’t have livable homes?
Africa is not what you think
It’s more urban as poverty begins to shrink
You may ask why it’s portrayed that way if it isn’t
The answer is simple
People are easily manipulated
Hardly concentrated
Never really creative
Which makes them simple-minded
Believing everything they see
Not experiencing
So take it from me
Africa is not what it seems
People there are inviting
Not the slightest bit of mean
Visual Presentation
https://youtu.be/UAqHTvCGyCU
Special Cloth ( tell a story)
I have not only one piece of kente
I have 2
One colorful
With some blue
One straight pink
With a naturally made ink
20 cedis is how much it cost me
Which is equivalent to almost nothing
Knowing its price was considered expensive in Ghana
But nothing with my US dollars
And that it was handmade with beautiful techniques
Fairly hard to critique
I didn’t think twice about the price
All the hard hot work
It came out very nice
Making them sturdy and durable
In all that hot weather must have been terrible
So my 20 cedi blessings
Must have been a miracle
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