Thursday, 2 May 2013

Rwanda Theme Poem

For this Blog, I will try and Find a song, poem, from our Hotel Rwanda discussions. (propaganda, lack of education, prejudice, social circles/creation of outsiders, calls to violence, or genocide 

                                                                        A Little Girl
By Amy Balfour
Heschel Day School, California
A Little Girl
A tear on her cheek
Darkness
A photograph in her boot
The face long gone
Light
Her mother's eyes
Once live now still
Darkness
Footsteps sound
They're coming now
Bang
No Darkness, No Light  


I picked this one cause it is dark but want genocide is not and it tells us a perspective from a little girl that is in a genocide and then she sees her mother then she gets shot the end

I feel like what it says like for me when I read it I felt like a ghost and I saw this little girl crying and then she sees her mother and then the people came and shoot her mother right before her eyes


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8 comments:

  1. michael cannon2 May 2013 at 14:48

    very good ryley. i would have liked to see a little more explanation on what made you so interested in this particular poem.

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  2. Austin2 May 2013 at 14:57

    good job ryley but why did you pick this dark poem and where did you find it

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  3. Unknown2 May 2013 at 15:06

    great job on the poem.It has a good meanng and i can easily relate this to what happened in africa

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  4. Unknown2 May 2013 at 15:13

    Good job i liked how dark the poem but you should think a litte more on the poem.

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  5. Neuf7 May 2013 at 15:32

    I like the comments... where did you find this poem Ryley? what drew you in?

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  6. Unknown8 May 2013 at 14:39

    I found it on google and just put Rwanda genocide poems and it got me to this site where it had a song and I picked it I don't really know why I picked it but I like how it was dark because in this time it was not like all genocide it is a dark time for any one

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  7. Unknown29 May 2013 at 15:24

    nice poem ryley, im not too sure how it relates but good job for you.

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  8. Unknown18 June 2013 at 23:34

    I like the poem you chose, it was easy to understand what was happening and to make a connection.

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