Bugamilia
Un retoño lindo como el sol
con hoyitos a su alrededor.
Salió recto como su madre.
Tiene dos manos y le gustan las hojas.
“Mi hijo caído del cielo, te amo como
Dios. Eres tan bello y tus hojas iguales
a las de tu madre”
A little shoot pretty as the sun
with holes around it.
It came out straight like her mother.
“My son from heaven, I love you
like I love God. You are so beautiful
and your leaves are just like your mother's”
— Diego
Paracaídas , paracaídas
que salva a la gente de caídas
Parachute, parachute
that saves people from falls
— Ricardo
Es morada esta flor,
dentro tiene un botón,
tiene polen ¡sí señor!
It is purple, this flower
Inside it has a bud
It has pollen, yes sir!
— María Andrea
Flor hermosa, hermosa como las mañanas,
de olor lindo como el champú que arranco
y me siento en un sillón calientito y la observo....
Beautiful flower, beautiful like the mornings
With a wonderful smell like shampoo. I cut it
And I sit in a comfortable couch and I watch it…
— Pablo
Es bonita como el cielo
Es tan bonita que se marchita
It is pretty like the sky
It is so pretty that it withers
— Lucía
Es morada
como la casa en la que vives
It's purple
Like the house you live in
— Mauricio
Como las alas de una mariposa
(Sandra)
Como una rosa, como mi mamá (Juanger)
Like butterfly's wings
Like a rose, like my mother
Tiene venas como las personas
Es natural como la naturaleza
It has viens like people
it is natural like mother nature
— Ale mena
Es una flor bonita
que luce en tu rostro.
Luce bien,
es pequeña como tú.
It is a pretty flower
That makes your face shine.
It looks nice,
It's little like you
— Miguel
De tallo frágil
Y hojas de terciopelo.
Fragile stem
And velvet leaves
— Dali
Bugambilia,
Bella como la vida,
fresca como el aire.
Ella, sin nadie,
vive la vida con alegría
y sus amigas las flores
la llaman bugambilia
Beautiful as life is
Fresh like the air.
She, alone,
Lives life with joy
And her flower friends
Call her bugambilia
— Sofia
Mis nervaduras saben buenas
porque yo las hice
y lo mejor es
que las hice en Belice
My nervations are great
because I made them
Best of all is
I made them in Belize
— Raúl
I
attend a workshop at the AMS [American Montessori Society]
Meeting in Boston last April. I enjoyed it so much that I decided
to buy 20 eye loupes for my class. I started with the hand
exercise. Then I gave each child a flower from a bugambilia
plant. They looked closely with the loupe and wrote ten observations.
Then they picked their two favorites to share in the circle.
We did it like the sandwich poem idea. After all of them shared
everyone was quiet in wonder and astonishment: They had actually
created a poem! I couldn't believe it either, children are
indeed full of poetry! I'm planning to make a little book with
the children's poems to give their parents.
