iRemix Mango Street

THE DREAMER

The House on Mango Street

I am Mango Streetdown to each nook & crannyI wish I wasn't

Red Clowns

Clowns, blue laughter: smiles but these clowns were differentthese clowns caused me pain

Haiku

Boys and Girls

Blue is fo

r boys &

pink for girls, they are m

ore than

classifications

Blake February 19, 2009 at 6:35pm

Its funny, most of my friends drive to my house and it takes them a second to think...

“WAIT, WAIT, we’re in the HOOD!”

Chapter 24 Haiku: Born Bad?? NEVER... a Fair Trial Always the “Reputation” Things Will Never Change...

THE DREAMER...

THE DREAMERS

Living life in luxury This is the American dream,

Not worrying about the recession

or the future When this should b the main thing

What is a person to do when there is no hopefighting a remix of a dream that will never come true

nightmare of diamonds and pearls haunt me in groupsI often daydream about the fashion and bliss

always worrying if I could handles it: I wish

Maybe there’s a purpose behind this American DreamIs it really what it seems?

Is it the cars, money, and clothes??Is this really the life??

I dream for...

My American Dream (Dana & Nicole)

THOSE WHO DON’T

Why most people be afraid of my intellegence. I'm a

master at your fear: BEWARE- i no longer care my smarts are of the now.

i'm here. If i wanted it I will go get it

I'ma kill em softly with my smarts

my beauty is a flower blooming into the depths of my eyes: the sunsets

to riseSee the colors from on high.

Chapter 12 Haiku: Those Who Don't...

THOSE WHO DON’T“CAN’T SEE ME!”

Can Never See Me Always Asking About Me

But Still They Don't Know

iRemix Mango StreetChapter 4 Haiku: My Name It Is Like A Fire Always Seems To Catch Your Eye But Don't Stare Too Long

It Is Like A Fire Always Seems To Catch Your Eye

“ But Don't Stare Too Long!”

Chapter 4 Haiku: My Name I am Like A Fire I Seems To Catch Your Eye But Don't Stare Too Long

Chapter 4 Haiku: My Name

It Is Like A Fire

All-ways Seems To Catch Your Eye But Don't Stare Too Long.

My Name

MY NAMEMY NAMEMY NAMEMY NAME

Chapter 3 Haiku:

Boys And Girls: Block Edition

Live With and Without Always Ready to Connect What Did You Expect?

THE DREAMERS

THE CHANGE SOCIETY

SIRE HAIKU...

He looked! Someone lookedAt me--admiring beauty?I hope...how I hope

It was a nice day outside Sally said we should go to carnivalI told Sally i didn't even want to go but that’s not where the trouble being

When we left it was a group of boys watching are every moveI knew something was wrong when one boy took Sally by the hand and whispered in her ear let have some fun...i want to / go but his friends just laugh and look at my confusionI look at you Sally and yelled “wait ,wait for me”She just look back at me and wouldn't even speakOne of his friend grab me by the hand and said you come with me he force me into the car. i didn't want to go / where he was taking mehe kiss my lips, sour and hard he said don't fight the feeling this is how love suppose to be after we drove into a very cold and dark spot he start pulling off his shirt after all the books I’ve readI know in my heart this is not what love is suppose to feel like i try to pull this boy off of me but he wouldn't get off me: LOVE?I being to cry and yell for Sally to come backbut nobody ever came Sally “where were you when he treated me wrong. Where where you when i yelled!!!”you where my friend...now I'am too afraid. to go / outside i don't waant to see the boy who said he love me again...

dark silhouette is trying to define oneself and she has a name

dark silhouette is trying to define oneself but it is nameless.

dark silhouette is trying to remind herself that he is shameless.

Sally Songs: Haiku I & II

A man and his girlHave a “little” fight one night

She stay and he quit

She can not see it Major Brutality: Blind

Dreams... of leaving him

THE DREAMER

Haiku for: Marin

Escape is the goalA rich man is what she wants?Patiently waiting...

THE DREAMER

Marin

MarinFeminine teacher

at do you long for? Teach me

Tris attraion

Haiku 4 Laughter

reflection of self emotions shown on my face none can be as me!

Haiku 4 Hips

Rock Left to RightBody moves men to dance words

Hips be the topic

“His face twisted up

in pain every time she was upset, as if he could not physically bear the thought of herbeing sad.In those days my HOUSE was full of love,not loud,flamboyant love, but with a quiet, steady love.

THE DREAMERS

I'll start by describing myself as other people see when they take a first glance at me: I'm short and wiry with bold glasses and dark blonde, messy, unmanageable hair. I don't leave the house without some sort of bag--mainly a black, one-pocket purse. When I'm walking in a familiar place alone and I'm not doing anything formal there, I almost always have my iPod or MP3 player with me, earbuds in ears. And most of the time I walk briskly, as if I'm always in a hurry. This amounts to one thing: I'm a nerd.

And I'm not just a nerd, I'm a disorganized, messy nerd. Oh, and I'm a loner who has no friends and won't amount to anything. Right? RIGHT?

Well, no.

So if I were to take people on a tour of myself, if there were three things I'd want them to know about, these would be them:

-They'd have to know about my pets. They're very near and dear to my heart, and I love them to death. I have three dogs (Sigmund, Ivan, and Michaela), a cat (Rebecca), a rat (Allie), and a few fish (Jack, Rosie, and Bob). These animals aren't empty of everything--they've each got separate personalities. -They'd have to know about my love of music. I have a CD collection of over 10 CDs, including a Led Zeppelin best-of, a Rod Stewart best-of, and my prize of the bunch, Tommy by The Who. I also have three guitars, and ADORE playing. I also play piano, and really like that as well. -Above all, they'd have to know about my family. I love my family more than anything in the world! I have a wonderful mother, an awesome father, a fantastic stepfather, a loveable little sister, great grandparents, and all sorts of other lovely relatives...too many to list. They've loved and cared for me for all 15 years of my life, and if it weren't for them, I wouldn't be where I am today. I wouldn't ask for another family, whether that sounds incredibly cliched or not.

Reply by Mia on February 19, 2009 at 6:51pm

4 SKINNY TREES

THOSE WHO DON’T...

THE DREAMERS

Haiku: Four Skinny Trees

Four skinny treesWeak branches reach to the sky

Hoping to gain strength

Those who...

what do they call us the outsiders that roll through our hoods rolling up their windows clicking the locks on the doors staring through the rearview steering fast and clear of the misfits within the wiry, torn down, non-white picket fences what do they call us? when they see the guy in the straw brim Rosa's Eddie V the crooked eye guy who's Davey the baby's brother and the bum on the corner yeah that's old man lee what do they think of us? ya know?... those who can't those who ain't those who most likely won't those who don't understand us that live on Mango

by Good Will

If I gave someone a tour of myself I would only let them see the positive things about me, because people tend to stereotype others based on their race and their background. Since I am a Black male, others associate things such as drugs, violence, ignorance, gangs, as well as other degrading images. In Mango Street, Esperanza

believes that a new house or a better neighborhood will change the way others view her when they enter

her neighborhood. This is similar to what I meant when I said that I would only want people to see my

positive characteristics, so they don't make those stereotypes.

Good Will

THOSE WHO DON’T

Another day... Another life takenIs this truth or i was mistaken?

Can't believe it: another Geraldo goes under.Forgive me Lord but i can't help but wonder.Why does another Geraldo... fall to the ground?And no one else makes a sound...Not a scream not a holler not a cry for helpJust moving along jus lookin out for self.

Kendall

He’s Just another... Just a another... Just an “OTHER”.

Gone in a BLINK

But we need to Step Back and EVALUATE Let's think...

Just overlooking the problem will not help (It'll expand it.)

Don't take it for granted.

it could happen to you...when you on dat cold groundwhat you gonna do ???

Red Clowns Pain is the new love

The Love is killing inside So take this pain please.

Delete

music a soft sound, in which I am

able sit back and relax.

the sleepy sounds played.

The figure in which I can see twirls

around to the lovely

sounds. A hole in the box allows

music To escape

inside the mind,,,

my eye.

traveloing the air

Through waves of my memories.

i combine time around my fingers.

Time Cuts/

bleeds Me to a rose red.

i now have the curse

shaped like the pink lillies

A laughing lake in the brain.

my eyes so blind

the sleep haze.

the lullaby

The betrayer to the quite.

releasing the pain

of a controlled meldoy.

GIL'S FURNITURE BOUGHT & SOLD

TRANSPARENT Sun Blindness look to the corner there lies a brick house right next to the alley which leads to the drunkard's haven

Smoke clouds are produced as the suspect looking men become aloof they are viewed as uncouth but they feel as if they are being in tune to their roots.

stare the sun in the eye emulate its energy gulp intoxicants as the ambulance and cop cars blare ask for change, then use it to suffice the abuse of your being.

Receive stares, glares Drink until you're unaware

now you're influenced saw your father and grandfather do the same under their influence now you're considered the typical truant

but no one knows why you stare into the sun although you are surrounded with negativity there's hope for you

you're blinded by this atmospheric mass but the UV rays are not against you they want you to look past the sun look through the sky see past the galaxy

be perceived only by their character and not their habits but they are not transparent and we live in a reflective light.

Miss Cheivous

Mango Dreams

I dream of a HOUSEA building that reflects LOVE

I am Mango Street

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