Kroger Scholarship for Poetry 2016 - Mehak Siddiqui from Star International Academy HD

Kroger Scholarship for Poetry Recepient for 2016: Mehak Siddiqui from Star International Academy www.starpsa.org www.hesedu.com Durosham Mehak Siddiqui Star International Academy 11th Grade Harriet Tubman I am a planet not fit for habitation I am a garden with stones in stead of soil Did you not hear that I am no docile beast? I am a team of oxen with no yoke a wild colt not yet broken I am the plow on this plantation, and the rearing bucking horse I am the beast of burden turning up soil into neat northwards furrows I am the railroad spike not the roaring train belching skin Don’t you know that I am a fine lady? I dab my napkin at black miner’s hands, hoping the coal will stay I am a crow cawing of cardinal points trading fertile fields for frozen lakes I am a constellation quenching thirst cotton fields sing of my skeletal arms I am a postman during the night delivering God’s darkened packages station to station My hair is my helm and I am armored my back clad in rising rows of chainmail links I am a conductor of this living orchestra whose rising voices sing of Greece I am a map labeled with no letters A bible drawn instead of written Did you not hear the name of Moses? I am not named in the scripture as Harriet But Adam’s children do remember me