I Am From...

A brief look into what has made up me.

I Am From…

 

I am from quaint, from small

From ballet, gymnastics, T-ball

I am from loving parents

I am from devoted friendship

I am from summer camp, YMCA

From laugh and run, smile and play

I am from kiddie pools and sprinklers

From dancing in the rain

I am from pumpkin carving, trick-or-treating

Go fish, tag, and hide-and-seeking

I am from Mother May I

I am from wheat bread and milk

I am from the dog ate my homework

From Del’s Lemonade

From Willow Tree chicken salad

From Dunkin’ Donuts

I am from salt and vinegar chips

From tuna without the bread

I am from Candyland and Battleship

From Barbie’s missing head

I am from swimming and sledding

From stomping on crunchy leaves

I am from summers and from winters

Cape Cod, New Hampshire and Vermont

I am from church on Sundays

I am from a change of mind

I am from going to the movies

I am from harsh and kind

From Sailor Moon and Powerpuff Girls

Rugrats, Hey Arnold and Doug

I am from Glee and Gilmore Girls

Amazing Race and True Blood

I am from vampires and werewolves

From zombies, ghosts and spirits

I am from Ouija boards

I am from 3000 miles

Two homes, many families

I am from first boyfriend and first kiss

From “always gonna remember this”

I am from singing in the shower

Or singing in the car

I am from passing notes and secrets

From gazing at the stars

I am from disaster and from romance

I am from hatred and from love

I am from water fires

From dough boys

To real boys

I am from high school

I am from college

I am from haven’t figured it all out yet

From coast to coast

And heart to heart…

　

I am from everything I am.

Reviews

[ShameemAkhtar]

Thumbs up Craig,

You could not have summarized this better. What we see if a picture book of who you are Stephanie, and mind you, I like what I see... a lot...

I like the style and the repetition of the 'I am from' even though I feel you could used it a bit less of it to make the reading a bot more fluid, else you could break down the structure to achieve the same effect..

The ending I feel could have been a bit more powerful. 'Everything I am' encompasses effectively the whole poem but the wording itself does not carry as much weight I would like it to or that the poem deserve (my very subjective feeling of course)... Alternatively instead of 'I am from...' in the last line, it could have been a line with 'I am...'

Great read, makes one want to meet you and know you better... :)

[Vinod Kumar U K]

like a long long fairytale spreas everywhere..........good.

[KAREN]

I really liked ths! Something i believe we all can relate too!

[An owl on the moon]

This was a visually stunning write.. all these glimpses that combine to make you.. Each line is like a pic in an album.. Simply loved the heart and soul behind this!