The poets from Latino Youth High School learned about a type of poem called “Ode”. They wrote their own odes to the City and to Love. Enjoy!
From Chicago to the World
J.C.M.
CHICAGO the greatest place in the world from Little Village to the high you feel in mornings east lake wind. The high and low of the hot and cold that reminds you there’s no place like home for Chicago is the greatest place on earth. The love that surrounds me walking the downtown streets while listening to performers that sound like the greats; Sam Cooke, Drake, Prince and smoothest of all the good old magic blues.
“Carmelo”
Anonymous
North Avenue beach is when the sun first hit our eyes.
A tall, brown skin boy
That I called “Carmelo”
Was my love for the summer
Those honey dipped eyes is what I remember
Brown skin looking like caramel under the sun
You were the sweetest, I just couldn’t have you
It came to an end once the sun left us to freeze
