Where I'm From - Calvin

"I Am From"

Inspired by George Ella Lyon's "Where I'm From"

As I tell you where I am from

up northwest where the ice cold snow

falls so soft it doesn’t melt.

The snow grows as far I can remember

I’m from summer camp,

packing clothes, on the boat

Setting up the fishing net

Untangled, tangled, ready for fish

Sitting in the middle of nowhere

With close friends and cousins,

Hunting for food, for caribou.

We caught four and took them home

The boat ride home I saw a lot of nature

A polar bear on the ice reminds me

Of my grandpa, the baleen drawing of

A polar bear catching a seal catching a fish.

I am from my grandpa and grandma

From the village in the middle of nowhere

I’m from the Whaling Captain’s daughter

And the school board’s son

I am from the whale and the snow

I am the hope.