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Thanks to wonder-photographer Adam Weiss for capturing the beauty and spirit of the event!
The sky is so beautiful
it would make me want to cry
but that’s just me!
People are different,
like when I take a bath, I sing!
People ask me why
the sky is so blue
I tell them maybe
it’s people who are shining
and they are not blue.
I ask myself “Will I go to heaven
while the sky is so bright?”
It’s dark now
so I tell my mom, “Goodnight.”
Because it’s too dangerous in my neighborhood
to play outside
It’s not really dark now,
But still, I live in a dangerous neighborhood
I watch my friends play outside
I look up in the sky
And wonder if any butterfly’s circling around me
I see airplanes
And birds singing on wires
I wish I could go to the window and fly in the sky
And that’s my thing!
by Juan G.
San Francisco
Check out what happens when the band Birdmonster spends a few days with the SCORES poets at Bret Harte Elementary School. Two inspirational poems bloom into songs: The Tomato Blues and Family Dreams.
Last month Birdmonster teamed up with ASCAP and America SCORES for 3 songwriting workshops with the students of Bret Harte Elementary. You can go to The Tripwire for a live recording of Tomato Blues, a song the band co-wrote with these budding artists. The ASCAP Songwriter Residency program brings professional musicians (Saul Williams, Adonis) into the classroom to teach students the art of songwriting and the importance of copyright, as well as to co-write and record original songs with them.
