Stephen Crane and a request!

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

Hello, all. I have another request. Thank you to everyone who responded to my last one -- the responses were awesome. Right now I'm looking for 7th-grade-friendly poems that really express people's identities (as individuals, or their cultural identities). I think "list poems" might be especially helpful.

And here is my unrelated contribution.

If I Should Cast Off This Tattered Coat
by Stephen Crane

If I should cast off this tattered coat,
And go free into the mighty sky;
If I should find nothing there
But a vast blue,
Echoless, ignorant --
What then?

Comments

[cozzybob.livejournal.com]

I have no offering, sadly, but that poem is absolutely beautiful.