Project ID #: 702379
As a Cover Picture I think I would like using this image if possible: A ThinkStock Image #: 486354585
Author’s Biography:
My name is Angie Ignacio and I am originally from a very small five square miles island named Saba. I am 24 years of age and currently still a student attending a Dutch college in the Netherlands. I have been living in the Netherland a little over four years. I enjoy writing poetry whenever the inspiration hits me and writing in general. In my free time I like singing, dancing and spending time with family whenever I can. Saba is an island unknown to many and I would like to change this by putting it on the map one day.
Book Summary:
This poetry collection mainly explores human emotions. In an average …show more content…
11. Sitting Under the Mango Tree
As I sit under the tall mango tree near my home,
I feel the gentle breeze on my face,
As I Listen to leaves rustling above me,
I smell the faint sea breeze,
I think of the far and and unforeseen future,
A future of what could be,
A future that I may or may not have control over,
Or even a future I may not even see,
A future far away from home,
An adult future of my very own,
What will I do? What would I have become?,
The last of the sun’s rays shine bright and gloriously in the sky,
It shines in my face and causes me to awaken,
And I find that all of it was just a dream,
I am no longer sitting under the mango tree near my home,
And I can no longer hear the rustling of leaves overhead,
Nor smell the faint saltiness of the sea breeze,
It is the future that I have been thinking of for so many days and nights,
But now…
Now I wonder to myself,
‘What was I really thinking of?’
12. The girl who wanted to be white
There was once a girl who wanted to be white,
She wanted her darkness to be removed and be completely out of sight,
She sat in the corner one day rubbing clorox on her dark mocha skin,
Hoping to turn a few shades fairer, for she thought her darkness was a
As a Cover Picture I think I would like using this image if possible: A ThinkStock Image #: 486354585
Author’s Biography:
My name is Angie Ignacio and I am originally from a very small five square miles island named Saba. I am 24 years of age and currently still a student attending a Dutch college in the Netherlands. I have been living in the Netherland a little over four years. I enjoy writing poetry whenever the inspiration hits me and writing in general. In my free time I like singing, dancing and spending time with family whenever I can. Saba is an island unknown to many and I would like to change this by putting it on the map one day.
Book Summary:
This poetry collection mainly explores human emotions. In an average …show more content…
11. Sitting Under the Mango Tree
As I sit under the tall mango tree near my home,
I feel the gentle breeze on my face,
As I Listen to leaves rustling above me,
I smell the faint sea breeze,
I think of the far and and unforeseen future,
A future of what could be,
A future that I may or may not have control over,
Or even a future I may not even see,
A future far away from home,
An adult future of my very own,
What will I do? What would I have become?,
The last of the sun’s rays shine bright and gloriously in the sky,
It shines in my face and causes me to awaken,
And I find that all of it was just a dream,
I am no longer sitting under the mango tree near my home,
And I can no longer hear the rustling of leaves overhead,
Nor smell the faint saltiness of the sea breeze,
It is the future that I have been thinking of for so many days and nights,
But now…
Now I wonder to myself,
‘What was I really thinking of?’
12. The girl who wanted to be white
There was once a girl who wanted to be white,
She wanted her darkness to be removed and be completely out of sight,
She sat in the corner one day rubbing clorox on her dark mocha skin,
Hoping to turn a few shades fairer, for she thought her darkness was a