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Jade Ye

Sammamish

Youth Poet

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From Our Roots We Rise

A little yellow flower,
Miles of stretching roots,
A thin and narrow river,
Eternities of overlapping ripples.

A little child,
Their heart is a web,
Connected to all,
A nest of tangled roots.

From our roots we rise,
The roots of mother earth,
Of our home,
For each other.