City of One: Young Writers Speak to the World Book

	Introduction	15
	Foreword	17
1	In the worry of the world
	Sitting by the window at grandma's house	23
	Questions of the universe	26
	What is	27
	When will it end	28
	White balloon	29
	What have you done?	30
	Dear Mr. Bush	31
	Compassion	32
	In the mind	33
	The jungle	34
	I am in the world of worry	35
	My 1st birthday	36
	Frustrations	37
	Speaking underground	38
	What do you know about African people	40
	Ode to sunset	43
	Spirit	44
	Name poem	45
	Journey of emotions	46
	Baby bits	48
	Macau	49
	Some day	50
	Going to God's place	51
	Nico	52
	What is a river?	54
	Haiku	55
2	Under fire
	One the road to inner peace	59
	Incognito	62
	OUTside/INside	63
	Twelve days	65
	Never safe	66
	Under fire	67
	We drown	68
	Far away	69
	In the real world	70
	Fog and peace	71
	War	72
	The mystery of cheetahs	73
	Home	74
	Black vs. Latino fight at ISA	76
	Regret	77
	Safety issues	78
	What I've seen	80
	The projects	81
	Ghetto state of mind	82
	Red and death	84
	The ghetto curse	85
	Hope	86
	Gangster	87
	Never safe	88
	My story	90
	Dreams	91
3	Our words are universal
	Paz comienza contigo	95
	Waiting	96
	Mystical	97
	In my city of one	98
	I am	99
	Do not call me	100
	I come from	102
	Magic	103
	Baraka	104
	I bit into life	106
	Inside of me are many rooms	107
	Sending	108
	Love is everywhere	109
	Seeds that can't grow	110
	Friend who	111
	Oath of friendship	112
	No paper no books	113
	We are sisters	114
	I am	115
	What makes me myself	116
	See me	118
	My face	119
	Seeing clearly	120
	The peace	122
	My friend	123
4	Peace is harmony with the things around you
	My people	127
	Morning glory	129
	Family night out	130
	Hummingbirds	131
	I remember Ukraine	132
	Mexico	133
	In chinatown	134
	Searching for the perfect wave	135
	Jamaica	136
	Sweet mangoes	137
	El Salvador	138
	Deep inside	139
	It is the earth's birthday	140
	Rander, India	142
	Ireland	144
	The peacefulness of Mexico	145
	Gifts of life	146
	Ramadan	147
	Where I want to be	148
	Aja Cayetano	149
	My mommy	150
	When I grow up	151
	You bring out the Latino in me	152
	Today I feel	153
	New York sites	154
	Indian spirit	155
	I remember	156
	The other side	157
	Why I love Au	158
	Rain	159
	Coconut milk	160
	15th Street	161
	House of dreams	162
	My mom	163
	The seasons back home	164
	My brother	165
	Money	166
	Night and day	167
	My heart	168
	The reflection of my eyes	169
5	Hope waits, like us
	Uttarayan, festival of the kites	173
	Sleep	175
	The healing	176
	Hope sounds like the sea	177
	Equality	178
	Dragon in eagle's house	179
	Anger	180
	One body found by love	181
	My feelings	182
	My imagination	183
	My brother	184
	Abuelita Birra	185
	Counting the ways	186
	My magic senses	188
	The tree	189
	Nani	190
	No mo	192
	Freedom	193
	Stories of our past	194
	I want to send	196
	War	197
	The bus to the big house	198
	Something to live for	199
	The ghetto	200
	Nigeria's girls	202
	This is what I want to pass on	204
	Mother who	205
	Anthem to the tree of freedom	206
	Where my beauty comes from	208
	Blessing	209
	Work for change	210
	I wish	211
	Healer of Natoma	212
	The sweater	214
	Broken man	215
	A beautiful painting	216
6	Ours poetica
	My poem about peace	221
	How to sing	222
	Anything	223
	The music of poetry	224
	I need to write	225
	Everything	226
	Poetry	227
	The city	228
	Poetry does not come easy to me	230
	A simple piece of nothing	231
	What poetry is	232
	The girl hidden	233
	How poetry feels	234
	Kalu	235
	A poem is the world	236
	WritersCorps history	238