Presenting a spoken word poem by Sarah Kay. This presentation was created with the intention to be used in class, hence the gaps in 2 of the slides. In those slides the students will be asked to mention appropriate words. The pictures can help the students to get to the answer. These are the right answers: Slide 4: solar systems Slide 5: lungs

1. Creator: Haylee Sherwood
Name: ‘Baby girl profile’
Date: March 2, 2014
Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/120077902@N02/13234965623/in/photolist-
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'If I Should
Have a
Daughter'
Sarah Kay
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2. ‘If I Should Have a
Daughter’
•What do you think it’s about?
•What words come to mind?
•Continue this sentence:
If I should have a daughter, she/I …

3. Creator: AlmaArte Photography
Name: ‘lost but now i’m found’
Date: June 2, 2012
Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/almaarte_photography/7339008810/in/photolist-
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If I should have a daughter,
instead of Mom, she's gonna
call me Point B,
because that way she knows
that no matter what
happens,
at least she can always find
her way to me.

4. And I’m going to paint
s_____________ s_____________
on the backs of her hands,
So she has to learn the entire universe
before she can say,
“Oh, I know that like the back of my
hand.”
Creator: martisimas
Name: ‘the space inside my head’
Date: January 22, 2011
Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/martisimas/5378067246/in/photolist-9cf12m-
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5. Creator: Hey Paul Studios
Name: ‘Large Scale Lungs, Framed Anatomy Embroidery’
Date: July 1 2012
Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hey__paul/7511986150/in/photolist-crNTLA-9H4ekT-cqiNS1-crNTuG-q81smd-
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And she’s going to learn that this
life will hit you hard in the face,
wait for you to get back up just so
it can kick you in the stomach.
But getting the wind knocked out
of you is the only way to remind
your _____________ how much
they like the taste of air.

6. There is hurt here that cannot be fixed
by Band-Aids or poetry.
But the first time she realizes that
WonderWoman isn’t coming,
I’ll make sure she knows she doesn’t
have to wear the cape all by herself.
Because no matter how wide you
stretch your fingers,
your hands will always be too small to
catch all the pain you want to heal.
Believe me, I’ve tried.
Creator: sharyn morrow
Name: ‘Wonder Woman/Women’
Date: January 4, 2009
Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sharynmorrow/3168679401/in/photolist-
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7. "And, baby," I'll tell her, "don't keep your nose up in the air like that.
I know that trick; I've done it a million times.
You're just smelling for smoke so you can follow the trail back to a burning house,
so you can find the boy who lost everything in the fire to see if you can save him.
Or else find the boy who lit the fire in the first place,
to see if you can change him.”
Creator: ClickFlashPhotos / Nicky Varkevisser
Name: ‘Bicycles! (Film)’
Date: September 19, 2009
Link:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/clickflashphotos/418365
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Creator: Roel Wijnants
Name: ‘A Teenage Love’
Date: August 31, 2004
Link:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/roel1943/14904770260
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But I know she will anyway, so instead I'll always keep an extra supply of
chocolate and rain boots nearby,
because there is no heartbreak that chocolate can't fix.

8. I want her to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom
boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the
pinpoint of a human mind, because that's the way my mom taught me.
Okay, there's a few heartbreaks that chocolate can't
fix.
But that's what the rain boots are for.
Because rain will wash away everything, if you let
it. Creator: RebeccaVC1
Name: ‘pink boots {Explored - thank you so
much!}’
Date: July 10, 2010
Link:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/48590810@N
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9. Creator: quantum bunny
Name: ‘Sad_CreatureDate: August 5, 2004Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gregous/195467617/in/photolist-igPHk-3S1nGa-grKtts-4hL8fd-5fZxh-dft3nA-
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That there'll be days like this.
♫ There'll be days like this, my momma said. ♫
When you open your hands to catch and wind up
with only blisters and bruises;
when you step out of the phone booth and try to fly
and the very people you want to save are the ones
standing on yourcape;
when your boots will fill with rain,
and you'll be up to your knees in disappointment.
And those are the very days you have all the more
reason to say thank you.
Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way
the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no
matter how many times it's sent away.

10. You will put the wind in winsome, lose some.
You will put the starin starting over, and over.
And no matter how many land mines erupt in a minute, be sure your mind
lands on the beauty of this funny place called life.
And yes, on a scale from one to over-trusting, I am pretty damn naive.
But I want her to know that this world is made out of sugar.
It can crumble so easily,
but don't be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.

11. "Baby," I'll tell her, "remember, your momma is a worrier, and your
poppa is a warrior, and you are the girl with small hands and big eyes
who never stops asking for more."
Remember that good things come in threes and so do bad things.
Creator: Pedro Ribeiro Simoes
Name: ‘Fight simulation at the beach’
Date: March 26, 2011
Link:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pedrosimoes7
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Creator: Nick Royer
Name: ‘Ugokin Warrior’
Date: December 10 2011
Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hjmediastudios/6489873667/in/photolist-aTuikz-bwUysp-bvrbgo-c8MQ6-
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12. And always apologizeapologize when you've done something wrong.
But don't you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining.
Creator: whologwhy
Name: ‘A Smile’
Date: October 23, 2010
Link:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hulagway/511
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Creator: Corie Howell
Name: ‘[365] 074’
Date: April 3, 2009
Link:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/coriehowell/3
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13. Your voice is small, but don't ever stop singing.
And when they finally hand you heartache,
when they slip war and hatred under your door and offer you
handouts on street-corners of cynicism and defeat,
you tell them that they really ought to meet yourmother.
Creator: Alvonsius Albert Nainupu
Name: ‘Mum’s Whisper #2’
Date: November 2, 2014
Link:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alvonsiusnain
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14. Presentation created by Brenda Coleiro.
This presentation was created with the intention to be used in class and has been created
under the creative commons license.
Neither the poem nor the pictures are my own.