Question

1. Answer the following questions from the poem considering that Melanie Poonai is the main character. • Where does she live? • What does she look like? • Is her cat alive? • What is her brother’s favorite sport? • Is her mother alive? • Can you deduce where she is from? • Write down all the family members she mentions in this poem.

Answer 1

Pero y el texto?

Si no es imposible saber

Answer 2

I am from a life filled with colour,

From the chocolate brown that is my skin.

I am from the sunshine yellow of my mother’s laugh,

From the red and white of my brother’s favourite football shirt.

I am from the crisp new white pages of a book,

From the miserable grey of the street I live on.

I am from green, pink and yellow; My garden in summer filled

with flowers,

From the terrifying black of the nightmares that haunt me.

I am from the ginger orange of my buried cat,

From the blue and gold of my ever-short school tie.

I am from the dark oak of my grandmother’s coffin,

From the golden “Aum” pendant around my neck..

I am from every pink scar etched into my body,

From the red, orange and brown of a hot curry.

I am from every identical colour of the twins I love,

From the blue and green of a hospital ward.

I am from all that has happened,

And all that will be.