The stanzas of 

I look at my body

With eyes no longer blind--

And

The fenced-off narrow space 

assigned to me 

I look then at the silly walls 

Through dark eyes in a dark face.

Both of these stanzas made me think of eyes, eyes that will eventually see in the darkness, hence the dark background with the light face. 

In the middle there is a grassy field with a flying bird, cut off in its own little bubble, but slightly hazy and faded. This represents the feeling the poem invokes of a place that is on its own and peaceful, but is also forgotten. It is surrounded by a mass of torn darkness in sharper focus than the scene in the bubble itself, showing how it is always the chaotic and dark that is remembered the most clearly.

I chose the poem  Caged Bird as inspiration for my two art pieces. The first one is inspired by the line "The bird who stalks his narrow cage/Can seldom see through his bars of rage."  It depicts the restrained, caged bird that the poem is named for. The second piece is inspired by the line "The caged bird sings of freedom."

 caged bird sings of freedom."

This design was for the poem 'I look at the world' by Langston Hughes. It shows eyes within walls, as described by the poem.

The poem I chose was For My People by Margaret Walker. I made this person singing to represent the first line of the poem: “For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly”: