Word Bank Poetry
Posted by Jasmine Shakieer on Saturday, November 14, 2009
I found this in a notebook. I wrote it for a creative writing class I took in 2005. The assignment was to use the following words in a creative writing piece.
Colored Pregnant Blue Clan Black Pain Kinfolk White Shattered Secret Forgot Precious
Slave Infant Left Inferior
This is what I came up with:
It is here that I was born. A simple colored girl born into a colored clan of kinfolk. Born into an unforgiving world. Forgotten in my poverty. Shattered by my pain. A soul so black and blue left
standing in the rain. It is here that I developed from an infant to a child impregnated at a young age and left to give birth in the wild. It is here that I struggled, enslaved by the color of my skin. Precious only to myself. Holding a painful secret within. It is here that I will die. Giving birth to the child of a white man. A child born to be inferior because he belonged to my poor colored clan.
Colored Pregnant Blue Clan Black Pain Kinfolk White Shattered Secret Forgot Precious
Slave Infant Left Inferior
This is what I came up with:
It is here that I was born. A simple colored girl born into a colored clan of kinfolk. Born into an unforgiving world. Forgotten in my poverty. Shattered by my pain. A soul so black and blue left
standing in the rain. It is here that I developed from an infant to a child impregnated at a young age and left to give birth in the wild. It is here that I struggled, enslaved by the color of my skin. Precious only to myself. Holding a painful secret within. It is here that I will die. Giving birth to the child of a white man. A child born to be inferior because he belonged to my poor colored clan.