A Proud Mama

Yesterday we went to CODENI and I was supposed to be teaching one of the kids how to write poems. However, the teacher told him that all he needed to do was copy poems from a textbook. An approach that I thought was totally wrong. So, instead, I convinced him to write a poem of his own. His name was Sergio and this was the poem he wrote:

MI VIDA SIN TI

Eres como una rosa roja
Que en las noches brilla
Como un diamante
Y tienes tus labios
Como perlas

Eres mi vida
Eres mi razon de vivir
Sin ti la vida no es nada
Sin ti no se vivir


So, needless to say, I felt really proud of him, and was very glad that he developed the necessary confidence to write a poem of his own, and be willing to expose his own thoughts.

-Maite RyV