Where I'm From

[mynewplace]

My daughter was given an assignment in school, to write her own "Where I'm From" poem in the style of George Ella Lyons.  Sound familiar?  Here's my concoction.


And here is hers.  I'm terribly proud of her.

Where I’m From

By, Scarlett Chapman

I am from ballet slippers and black berries,

Trees and video games,

 My grandmother’s garden,

I am from board games and gifted classes

I am from the rhododendrons outside my grandmother’s house

The Sugar Maple

Whom I loved

That was cut down

 

I’m from candy bars and spaghetti

(not together of course)

From Anita and Jeffery

I’m from the Pops

And the gossipers

From Stop reading!  And Read your book!

I’m from Charleston and my hiding place behind the rhododendrons

And commercials I can recite from memory

 

I’m from pizza and the sound of my mother’s voice

From Kassie (sister), Taylor (cousin), and Zoe (Long)

From the great grandfather

I lost to a stroke

And the father of my father that my father found dead under an overturned tractor

 

I am from Little Bear and Peter Rabbit 

From kittens I’ve had and cats that play fetch

From Spongebob and Oddparents

 From scrapbooking and reading

I am from all these things here

And many, many other things that take up too much room

That’s where I am from