I originally write this poem for my AP Literature and Composition class. It's a found poem based on Toni Morrison's book Beloved. A found poem is a poem where you take words, phrases, or even entire passages from a book and you rearrange them into a poem. It's a pretty cool thing to do. You can take it so many ways. I was actually pretty proud of this after I did it, so I figured I would share it here. :) Enjoy!
Some Kind of Tomorrow
As much as life pleased
The hurt was always there.
She had crystal once
They got the last of it.
Dreaming for years,
Piling itself,
Burying itself,
Shadows
Still had hands
Every now and then.
She had
Enough milk
For all.
When they see it
They drink
If they wanted to.
They dirty them
Dirty them so bad
They could never like themself.
Anybody white
Could take
For anything that came to mind.
A tree on her back,
A haint in her house,
One journey, taken,
No more running
Anymore.
Every mention
Of the past
Hurt.
But some kind of tomorrow
That's pretty. Real pretty.
There is always some kind of tomorrow.
~With thanks to Toni Morrison, author of Beloved
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PoetryIn this book is a collection of poems that I may have personally written, or they may be from a published author. If they are from a published author or from the internet, all credit goes to them. I hope you enjoy these!
