What is a word you love to say or that you identify with? If you could make up a word to describe a feeling you have what it be? This week our rockstar Clissold poets were so inspired by Jose Olivares’ poem “Hecky Naw”, that they created their own vibrant vocabulary of words they love, and some you only hear in Chicago.
Woo Wop Da Bam
Brooke J.
7th Grade
Put the boy in some slacks
The draws gone show
Look at the back
diamonds gonna show
The big cross always gone show
In the alleyway
the graffiti gone show
Oh yea, me and foe n’em
finna woo wop da bam
Loud and proud
Not afraid of a crowd.
Phenove
(Fuh-Nove)
Cheyenne O.
8th Grade
Phenove
You never heard
It’s new
It’s because there’s no word
The feeling is oddly familiar
“I’m so loved, I want to die”
“So loved, I could fly”
There must be a better word for love
You’re phenoved by who you’re connected to
You’ll find it in your bedroom,
safe, comfortable, familiar, have a tone?
You see, but you can’t, it’s the energy
Physically, touch them, do it soon!
It’s overly extraordinary,
it’s not forever
You can’t afford this many
phenove it worth more than a penny
I’m Onnat
Kai Ying B.
8th Grade
I’m onnat,
you can catch me on the corner
cuz I’m always gone be onnat.
Girl catch me in my bonnet cuz on onnat.
I’m trifling, ratchet and ghetto
cuz Im’ always onnat.
Call me,
Kiah, Rica, Nicah, and my cousin
when you onnat.
I’m anywhere and everywhere you go
cuz my name is onnat.
If you won’t fight me you not onnat.
Wanderlust
Kurtis E.
8th Grade
Plenty of places
but I won’t stay long,
I just won’t stay still.
Too many places, too many tickets
my suitcase holds plenty
fast never slow,
I can give you
the run around the world.
Broken camera
never focus
Not the comfort of my home
I’m more free on the plane, expensive rollercoaster,
From Costa Rica to
the amazing U-S of A
horse back riding in Jamaica,
But can never stay stable
Just oh so amazing.
