![]() ![]() To find out more about Kay, visit her website at KaySarahsera. Her poetry affirms the roller-coaster emotions of growing up.Īs a spoken word poet, many of her performances can be viewed on YouTube and on the Ted Talks channel. She makes the reader feel like they are reliving their own childhood, teenage and adolescent experiences. Kay’s poetry is entertaining and easy to read. “No Matter the Wreckage” was published by Write Bloody Publishing, and includes Kay’s poem “B” which was originally published in 2011 by Seth Godin and the Domino Project. 'If you love two people at the same time, choose the second. 'You can close your eyes to the things you dont want to see, but you cant close your heart to the things you dont want to feel.' 3. You must stand up tall and proud, within you feel no fear, For all your dreams and goals sit before you very near. As you begin your growth to womanhood, this fact you must know, You'll always be my source of pride, no matter where you go. She says, “They are laughing through/the speaker phone, they are laughing, and they/are driving on a highway they have not been on before.”Īs commonly seen throughout her poems, Kay uses everyday moments and objects as symbols for love and life. 'One day the people that didnt believe in you will tell everyone how they met you'. With laughter and joy, mixed with a few tears to cry. In the poem “My Parents on Their Way Home from A Wedding,” Kay touches upon the realization that parents are separate from their children they are two separate people in love. Her lines, “I notice minutes/move, much more than when I was younger” are symbolic of watching her younger self disappear. In a poem entitled “Evaporate,” Kay addresses how time speeds up when growing up. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and we begin, controversially, with a. My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun Coral is far more red, than her lips red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. Kay uses everyday language to touch on universal themes that speak to readers who don’t typically favor poetry.Ī great example of the universal themes employed in her book is prevalent in a poem titled “Postcards”: “you can only fit so many words in a postcard/Only so many in a phone call/Only so many into space, before you forget/that words are sometimes used for things/other than filling emptiness.” Here, Kay writes about the importance of words and how sometimes they are insufficient in curing heartbreak. William Shakespeare, ‘ My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun ’. Using free verse for the young girl’s poems and tanka for her mother’s, master poet Nikki Grimes creates a tender intergenerational story that speaks to every child’s need to hold onto special memories of home, no matter where that place might be.Ĭheck out an interview between Nikki Grimes and The Horn Book.Poet Sarah Kay‘s first book No Matter The Wreckage is a collection of poems. This collection explores family, first loves and growing up. And when she returns her mother’s poems to the box in the attic, she leaves her own poems too, for someone else to find, someday. Mom came in, evidence on her face, that daddy wasnt okay. Life was about to put my family through an unforgettable test. ![]() Awaiting the news, we feared the worst and hoped for the best. To let her mother know this, she creates a gift: a book with her own poems and copies of her mother’s. Published by Family Friend Poems February 2010 with permission of the Author. ![]() Reading the poems and sharing those experiences through her mother’s eyes, the young girl feels closer to her mother than ever before. Ive cried when youve faced heartaches, and saw that as you grew, nothing broke your spirit, instead it strengthened you. Over the years, her mother used poetry to record her experiences in the many places the family lived. ![]() Her mother’s family often moved around the United States and the world because her father was in the Air Force. During a visit to her grandma’s house, a young girl discovers a box of poems in the attic, poems written by her mother when she was growing up. ![]()
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