Kite Flying

Kite Flying

The sky is blue

Kites are beginning to take flight

Kids cheering with joy

Kids waiting for kites to fall

Waiting to be the winner

Waiting to catch the winning kite.

The joy, the screaming, the fighting

Gone.

Nothing is the same

Kits not soaring the skies

Children on streets

Starvation.

Kite fighting,

Gone.

But there is hope

The future holds the power to love again.

         This poem that I created has to do with Kite flying. From the book "The Kite Runner," the most fun Amir and other children had been was kite fighting. I wanted to emphasize that in the beginning kite fighting was huge but when the Taliban came in, all that change. The picture symbolizes the kites that children used. The last verse talks about how, when Amir came to America and brought Sohrab, Amir taught Sohrab kite fighting.

Vanessa Lieberman

9/28/13