Brown Angels
I enjoyed this book of poetry and the adorable photographs of children in them. There is so much sweetness and innocents in between those pages. These photographs had a home at one time. The children were alive and had families and seem to be forgotten. The poet Walter Dean Myers make the children come alive through the poems he has written about each child or photograph. My favorite poem in this book is, “Friendship.” I love the first line, “There is a secret thread that makes us friends.”
Friendship
There is a secret thread that makes us friends
Turn away from hard and breakful eyes
Turn away from cold and painful lies
That speaks of other, more important ends
There are two hard yet tender hearts that beat
Take always my hand at special times
Take always my dark and precious rhymes
That sing so brightly when our glad souls meet
