Question: What is the difference between poetry and music? I awoke this morning with a smile on my face, which, thankfully, is not a rare occasion. What made this smile special was my knowing exactly what I was smiling about. Last night, listening to many of our student athletes recite original poems on stage at Braddock Drive Elementary School provided me not only with smiles, but with all those things behind the smile: joy, love, and laughter. For the past few weeks, the students have been working on creative pieces focused on the theme: The Music in Me. This led to one student sharing just how Hype rap makes him, another claiming herself to be a goddess of music, and one outstanding performance that ended with an A Capella version of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" which received uproarious applause. There is one student from Palms Elementary School, Prince, whose poem represents the best of this program:
The Music in Me
I am the star that music makes me
I wonder what its like to see music like me
I see the ears in my head, spinning the swarms of ideas
I see like no other being, so I am the Alpha
I want more to see in what I can read, read in me
I am the Alpha of music everywhere, and no one can say otherwise
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