Ode to Me, New to You

School
George Washington Carver Military Academy

Poet in Residence
Fullamusu Bangura

Date

Last week, Carver students tried their hands at a new type of poem: the ever-powerful ode. Students first heard a reading of “Ode to Cardi B” and my poem “Ode to Ursula.” After a lengthy discussion about who or what in our lives we feel most connected to, students wrote odes to those people they wanted to memorialize in writing. Check out a poem below:

School
George Washington Carver Military Academy

Poet in Residence
Fullamusu Bangura

Date

Ode To My Mother Lynn P.

To the mother that loved me dearly,

That left the nest before I could

fend for myself,

Think for myself,

So you left your son to fend for two

Too young to buy,

Too young to believe,

I will love you till the day I die,

But you loved me until it hit your system,

my greatest inspiration turned my greatest monster,

I,

Love,

You,

Who left two kids alone to live

with a stranger,

You couldn’t handle it,

So he did,

and he could,

So I cannot,

Hate you,

More than myself.