IDENTITY POEMS BY YEAR 8s

Being Malaysian

Being Malaysian means

Having the privilege to live in such an amazing country

With an exuberant, bustling melting-pot of races and religions

Malays, Chinese, Indians, Eurasians

Assimilating, blending

Into one cohesive whole

Hot and humid weather.

Selalu sangat panas

The sweltering, scorching sun beating down relentlessly

Like being in a massive microwave

Beads of perspiration trickling down your forehead

drip              drip

First you hear the high pitched ear-piercing sirens reverberating through the air

wee-woo  wee-woo wee-woo

Then a cacophony of car horns during the traffic jam

Traffic police on high powered motorcycles

Majestically clearing the heavy traffic with a wave of gloved hands

The king of fruits

Durian

Sweet, savoury and creamy all at once

But with a penetrating, pungent smell

That some people loathe

Or that some people love

By Matthew Tang

Being British

Being a crumpet loving British person means:

I must drink tea every day, no stop

When that kettle finishes boiling, I run over and grab it

Put my

tea bag

in

I pick up my tea

And then… calmly sit down on the settee, clutching my tea and my packet of crisps

I put on the new episode of Doctor Who,

laughing as David Tennant did his time travelling in the TARDIS

I feel at home, despite the fact I am at home

I look outside, it’s a regular day

FULL ON RAIN NO STOP

my favourite kind of weather.

I sit outside lying on my sun lounger made of fish and chips

I listen to the theatRE tunes

I think of all the bank cheQUES I could cash in if I was rich

I mutter to myself ‘Oi governor, I beg your pardon, cheers’

I take in the coloUrs of the sky

A typical England day

By Evan Partridge

Being Indian

Being Indian means

mouth-watering homemade sweets on festivals and

the lung-filling smell of cottage cheese curry and chapati

but don’t forget the active evenings spent

on gully cricket which you could probably hear from a mile away

the brown and yellow blur’s contact point being the loudest sound to be heard above the

chatters of the fast-paced players and the droning umpire

Tak

Tok

Tuk

cricket-loving people

loving it so much that when the Indian Cricket Team wins a match

whole of India goes

Sachin Sachin

                       Dhoni Dhoni

                                            India Rules at

                                                                  Cricket

Being Indian means

weekends spent on the beaches of Goa and

weekdays spent hardworking at school

but you don’t want to see the thunderstorms

that make the sounds of

Boom

       Boom

               Boom

the clouds’ dance taken form as bullets piercing through you

as you make your way with a raincoat through

white zig-zags in the sky that could start a wildfire

But being Indian doesn’t just mean all that

it also means

being passionate and hardworking like an ant

and being respectable like a monk

and being devoted to your country

and loving your mother tongue

It also means

spending time with your family

shaping memories that pull at your heartstrings forever

But most of all

Being Indian means being connected to your roots.

By Aryan Srivastava

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