This is a poem by Tupac Shakur. You have to do two activities with it.
1. Search who Tupac Shakur was. Are you surprised he is the author of this poem? Why/why not?
2. What makes this text poetry? Are there any literary devices?
Did you hear about
the rose that grew
from a crack in the
concrete?
Proving nature's law
is wrong it
learned to walk with
out having feet.
Funny it seems, but
by keeping its dreams,
it learned to
breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose
that grew from concrete
when no one else
ever cared.
