Friday, January 18, 2013

Midterm Review


Midterm Review

You will be responsible for the following formats on the exam:

Haiku

Lune

Sestina

Pantoum

Ottava Rima

 Cinquain

As a review, you must complete the following amounts for each format.  They are due next Friday.

Haiku (5)

Lune (5)

Sestina (1)

Pantoum (1)

Ottava Rima (2)

Cinquain (2)

28 comments:

  1. Haiku:
    1. Colorful and bright
    Gleaming in the widespread sky
    Independence Day
    2. Classic, pop, and rock
    Opera and musicals
    Passion expression
    3. Breaking through the wind
    Diving up the mighty sky
    Spread your wings and fly
    4. Numerous in spring
    Greenish spring and orange fall
    Makes up the bushes
    5. Blue and vast with clouds
    Birds soar through the atmosphere
    Fresh and breathable
    Lune:
    1. Nature wide
    Free and desolate
    Light comes through
    2. Striped and orange
    Frightening and fast
    Preys on others
    3. Black and white
    Lives in the Arctic
    Eat fishes
    4. Destructive
    Favor banana
    Big and strong
    5. Clean and clear
    Transparent and fresh
    Harmonic

    Sestina:
    The day before the test
    Everything was a mess
    My mother yelled at me
    My laundry filled the basket
    My books filled the floor
    My homework stacked on top

    I lived on the hill top
    And studied for my test
    Crackling of the floor
    Walking was hard, especially in the mess
    The rabbits danced in the basket
    As my cat stumbled to me

    Taking candy away from me
    The ants crawled on the top
    The pillow thrown landed in my basket
    That was all I thought about during the test
    The scribble on the test was a bunch of mess
    The teacher’s jaw fell to the floor

    In school, the janitor mop the floor
    The floor was so clean, it reflected me
    The lunch room floor was such a mess
    Sauce and wraps landed on top
    The teacher sat near the door and graded test
    As they took out their sandwich from their basket

    On their table lies their bamboo basket
    Their bags lie on the floor
    The tables rest on the table
    The principle pointed at me
    I was never the bottom one or at top
    Because every test and homework of mine was a mess

    Walking into the principal’s office, nowhere was there a mess
    On the table, detention slips filled a basket
    The basket lay on top
    And below was the floor
    The principal talked to me
    About the drawing on my test

    I explained why on my test, there was a mess
    He handed a detention slip to me, taken from his wooden basket
    I looked at the dazzling floor, as he told me to reach for the top.

    Pantoum:
    The forest was full of mysteries
    Dark and secret lurk each corner
    The sky above is as wide as it’ll ever be
    The river near by flows for a thousand years

    Dark and secret lurk each corner
    Such as the cobra that hides in the trees
    The river near by flows for a thousand years
    The rocks deformed by the pressing of water

    Such as the cobra that hides in the trees
    And the jaguars waiting to capture their prey
    The rocks deformed by the pressing of water
    And the rich layers form over the years

    And the jaguars waiting to capture their prey
    Waiting for their prey to stop and rest
    And the rich layers form over the years
    In vivid colors and edgy shapes

    Waiting for their prey to stop and rest
    As they are still in daze by the exquisiteness of nature
    In vivid colors and edgy shapes
    Are the flowers and plants and the tree barks too

    As they are still in daze by the exquisiteness of nature
    Time pass without their knowledge
    Are the flowers and plants and the tree barks too
    That marks the rings of time and age





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  2. Ottava Rima:

    1. I was sure to be careful when coming home
    Always looking behind
    From the school in Rome
    To my country in decline
    Which stands alone
    The bell of victory never chime
    The declining country was my love
    I mourn for the dying dove

    The war is going on between border
    My army is being pushes back
    The battle field is in disorder
    Skill and leadership is what they lack
    Many leaders are prison warder
    They don’t fight until their bone crack
    Their will to win is low
    That does not apply to their foe

    My return does a little help
    In the end we lost
    After my last yelp
    My happiness is the cost
    And which of my whelp
    My feelings are in forst
    They accept our surrender in one condition
    If they could have Huck Finn’s limited edition

    2. Little does my friend know about me
    How I traveled across the nation to escape my parent
    I left my house key
    My choice is aberrant
    All those sceneries I wished to see
    Helped me make my choice errant
    I traveled across the Hudson River
    Fearing the possibility of drowning as I shiver

    The wide river allows me no prohibition
    I sleep on land at night
    As I learned about one of the river-side family’s tradition
    As I help their camp fire ignite
    Their family is full of superstition
    Their tradition is overnight
    My love for travel does not fade
    My adventurous desires play

    My passion soon came to an end
    When my parent caught up to my trace
    There is nothing that I send
    It is weird that they can find my base
    They wanted the relationship to amend
    They told me about their trace
    I was angry that they always left me alone
    They want a chance for them to have their love for me shown

    Cinquain:

    Lovely
    Valentine’s Day
    Cruel day to the singles
    And letters written with ardor
    Crimson

    Warmness
    Comfort in cold
    Crucial in the winter
    Better affect with warm blanket
    Heater

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  3. Haiku (5)
    1. It’s only one thing
    Happy or not to be happy
    I would like to be
    2. Can it really be
    Finally learned the best
    To have a real smile
    3. Warmth of having you
    I ask for you not to leave
    It will make me glad
    4. Looking at you is special
    It’s like having a million stars
    That I can just keep
    5. There’s too much to lose
    Trust me I want you with me
    So please don’t leave me
    Lune (5)
    1. Your my peace
    You’re my everything
    Stay with me
    2. Unending war
    Please just stay with me
    I’m very sorry
    3. My other half
    You’re the reason I smile
    I want you
    4. Are you blind?
    I really do need you
    Open your eyes
    5. Be with me
    From you I need that
    Come back, please
    Sestina
    1. The rain drops softly
    It’s too late to apologize
    So why am I still standing in this rain?
    Waiting for you to turn back and say something to me
    But my heart will not be comforted today
    So maybe I should just turn away and forget us

    There is no such thing as us
    I can hear it coming down softly
    There is no type of safety today
    Don’t come to apologize
    It’s hard to stay and wait for you to talk to me
    I wait here in this rain

    All I do is make you happy but you make me wait in the rain
    Leave me alone I don’t want to remember us
    Can you come back around and talk to me
    A drop touches my skin softly
    Don’t dare to come and tell me that you apologize
    Too bad that it not time for me to be happy well just for today

    My heart will be broken today
    But yet I still stand in this rain
    But no I see you can’t apologize
    So let me forget all these things about us
    I hear the rain hit the ground softly
    But I still wait for you to turn and tell something to me

    Come back and say a couple of words to me
    I will not be able to have a helping hand with my heart today
    The drops touch the ground softly
    I stand here and look at this rain
    I will just leave and never think about this thing called us
    Don’t come to me to apologize

    Don’t come to me and apologize
    But I will still be waiting for you to talk to me
    I will leave this atmosphere and forget about this us
    But I can’t make my heart happy today
    Tell my why I’m still in this rain
    Here comes that rain again but it coming softly

    The rain comes softly, but I don’t want to hear you apologize
    I don’t want to wait in the rain, but I will wait for you to talk to me
    I can’t make my heart comforted, but I want to forget about all this “us”

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  4. Pantoum (1)
    1. A woman stands in the outside
    She is left alone
    She was never loved
    So she slowly left this world

    She is left alone
    Why though? Days like these get tough
    She was never loved
    That explains why she was never happy

    Why though? Days like these get tough
    A girl can put down so much
    That explains why she was never happy
    But she finds a way to pick herself back up

    A girl can put down so much
    A guy can do so much to make her feel bad
    But she finds a way to pick herself back up
    And those friends that she has always help her

    A guy can do so much to make her feel bad
    She will most of the times cry
    And those friends that she has always help her
    They are the ones that make her pick up her head

    She will most of the times cry
    But she looks around and find her friends
    They are the ones that make her pick up her head
    They are the ones that makes her know that everything will be okay
    Ottava Rima (2)
    1. The wild wind whooshing through my hair
    I shut it making peace
    Then a crackle makes a dare
    Here comes the crumbling of my niece
    The crunch is very rare
    There goes another piece
    The tick tock of the leaves lives are leaving
    Boom there goes all their believing
    2. Crash the building comes down
    It crumples everything in its path
    The woofs of the pound
    A couple of giggles and laughs
    There are many things found
    There he yawns from his nap
    There swishes by a cloud
    It was all a dream
    That all could become true with just one beam
    Cinquain (5)
    1. Trying
    Not achieving
    The worst feeling ever
    All that hard work has all been lost
    Goodbye
    2. Lying
    Very bad thing
    Too bad you can’t stop it
    Don’t ever come back to my life
    Leave me
    3. Leaving
    Hurts me inside
    I can’t do anything
    So please don’t come back to my life
    Get out
    4. I hurt
    And you don’t hurt
    My heart will start breaking
    Tell me why this always happens
    Goodbye
    5. Stop it
    You disgust me
    I don’t want to see you
    Don’t dare to come back to my life
    Adios

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  5. 1) Nothing is around
    No light, no sound, no nothing
    Emptiness surrounds
    2) A blaze surrounds me
    Smoke billows from every room
    The flames look hungry
    3) Snow falls on my head
    The cold chills my whole body
    The peace is surreal
    4) What are time and space?
    Restrictions on our whole lives?
    When will we break them?
    5) The river flows down
    The current never ending
    At least, I hope so

    1) Words, words, words
    Meaningless until
    We mean them
    2) Smiles are peace
    While frowns are anger
    Nice face, bro
    3) Word tells me
    That bro is a word
    Thanks, Bill Gates
    4) Stop! Yield! No!
    Don’t tell me what to
    do, damn signs
    5) Lunes are poems
    You really think so?
    I think not.


    The windows are broken.
    The walls, nearly all crumpled to the ground.
    Inside sits a man with his boy,
    the king of his mind
    in his own little world
    that had come crashing down.
    The father grins down,
    a poor, broken smile,
    that had seen the end of the world
    and had seen it break the ground
    as well as break his mind.
    His smile was returned by his boy.
    The silly little boy,
    his spirits were far from down.
    Nothing had touched his mind,
    as he was anything but broken.
    He kicked at the ground,
    Far from the tragedy in his own world.
    A quake traveled the world
    awakening the boy
    as his feet struggled to stay on the ground.
    He nearly fell down,
    But, not yet broken,
    He went back into his mind.
    Things were different in his mind.
    Nothing was ever wrong in that world.
    Things didn’t break,
    Nothing but the boy
    and his feet were allowed down
    onto the ground.
    A crack opened up in the ground
    snapping the child out of his mind
    and dragging him down
    into the darkness of the world.
    Cries from the boy
    leave the father broken.

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  6. There once was a sad little girl.
    Her dyslexia plagued her.
    No matter how hard she tried,
    She could never hide it from the world.
    Her dyslexia plagued her
    She tried her best to be normal but
    She could never hide it from the world.
    People would always point it out.
    She tried her best to be normal but
    Words were so restless on paper.
    People would always point it out,
    When she messed up a few words.
    Words were so restless on paper,
    They told a completely different story for her.
    When she messed up a few words,
    Nothing would make sense.
    They told a completely different story for her,
    The people that made fun of her condition.
    Nothing would make sense,
    Why they called her mean names.
    The people that made fun of her condition,
    Did they know it was a disease?
    Why they called her mean names,
    No one would ever understand.
    Did they know it was a disease,
    When they looked for jokes on Google?
    No one would ever understand
    Her condition, or what she tried to write.

    No face
    Always watches
    Nowhere to run or hide
    You can’t stop him from catching you
    Slender

    Rhythm
    Electric sounds
    Bass bursts from the speakers
    The beat drop and things get crazy
    Dubstep

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  7. Haiku

    This is our planet
    We must keep it safe and clean
    So it is still here

    What do we all fear
    Is it our choices or death
    We must not fear it

    We all have our shame
    What we did wrong in our lives
    But don’t be ashamed

    We must fight to live
    Do not just skate by in life
    Finish your life’s goals

    The earth is freezing
    They say the globe is warming
    This will disprove them

    Lune

    You must live
    If not for yourself
    Then for me

    We all fail
    It is part of life
    Live with it

    What is fear
    Is it actually there
    Kept in mind

    They are short
    They’re adorable
    They’re midgets

    We are strong
    We never back down
    We’re Jersey

    Pantoum

    We are all human
    We are able to change
    Yet we never do
    So our cycle continues

    We are able to change
    But we chose not to
    So our cycle continues
    Our pain and suffering

    But we chose not to
    Not to make anything better
    Our pain and suffering
    It shows through our skin

    Not to make anything better
    We hide in what little things we have
    It shows through our skin
    To reveal who we truly are

    We hide in what little things we have
    Because we think they are special
    It shows through our skin
    Our vanity and our weaknesses

    Because we think they are special
    We hold false idols in high regards
    Our vanity and our weaknesses
    Is what deceives us into worshiping those false idols

    Cinquain

    We are
    The nobodies
    That is how we are seen
    Never to become anything
    They’re wrong

    They’re loud
    They always cry
    They never stop to rest
    They keep us up all day and night
    Babies

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  8. Haikus

    The grass is so green
    Oh wow, how original
    A nature haiku

    She does not bruise so
    Easily anymore
    Only the outside

    This midterm schedule
    Is dumb and very pointless
    This is a protest

    Mr. McCarthy
    Talked about haikus today
    Just thought you should know

    I wish I could run
    On the track, up the mountain
    Away from myself

    Lunes

    A long hike
    Mist swirling around
    What a view

    Sitting by
    A shiny blue lake
    Paradise

    You hate me
    This doesn’t change things
    I love you

    Mrs. G
    She’s like a warden
    “Don’t come in!!”

    Formal poems
    Make me frustrated
    I hate rhymes

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  9. Haikus make me sad
    And angry when you get mad
    That they are not good

    Watchu want from me?
    I just do not like haikus
    And they don’t like me

    I miss my Lindsay
    She is super-duper cute
    I hope she comes back

    Books are a lost world
    Each story is something new
    No one understands

    Life is so special
    But it’s taken for granted
    Life is meant to live


    Lune’s

    Where to go
    When there is no place
    Run away

    Live like love
    Like you could lose it
    Don’t let go

    What to do
    When all you have left
    Isn’t there

    Who are you?
    And how do you know?
    Find yourself

    Close it out
    Like you close your door
    Forget it





    He sat in the corner and watched
    A boy of only eight
    His eyes seeing things he wasn’t ready for
    The click of his parents lighter ringing in his ear

    A boy of only eight
    He knew that something was wrong
    His eyes seeing things he wasn’t ready for
    His mother’s laugh sounded less sweet than it had before

    He knew that something was wrong
    He knew he wasn’t meant to be seeing this
    His mother’s laugh sounded less sweet than it had before
    Her eyes were crazed and bloodshot

    He knew he wasn’t meant to be seeing this
    But he couldn’t look away
    Her eyes were crazed and bloodshot
    He just stood there silent

    But he couldn’t look away
    Tears formed in his eyes
    He just stood there silent
    And when his mother looked up, she froze

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  10. Sestina:
    She looked down at her knight
    Shining in all his silver armor
    His smile brightening up the arena
    Their life together depended in this match
    The outcome determining their love
    She wished with all her heart for him to win

    And prayed desperately for the other opponent not to win
    For he was a despicable knight
    He was a man she could never love
    He appeared tauntingly in his blackened armor
    His marriage to her depended on this match
    Both knights met in the center of the arena

    It was the biggest of any other arena
    They shook hands, secretly wishing that they themselves would win
    Everyone’s fate hanging in the balance of this match
    Each man looked up at her, wishing to be a knight
    For her they’d give anything, even their armor
    They’d do anything for her love

    Except the black knight did not want her only for her love
    She was a trophy he planned to win in this arena
    She was to be an object to him, as shiny and perfect as his own armor
    She was not special to him; she was merely a prize for him to win
    He was a faulty knight
    He did not care about her; he only cared about the match

    And so begun the match
    A secret fight for love
    She watched each knight
    Racing towards each other from opposite sides of the arena
    Her eyes teared in anticipation of who was to win
    Each lance hit the others armor

    Pieces flew everywhere. But blood stained only ones armor
    This was the end of the match
    Her knight did not win
    This was the end. The end of love
    And the black knight stared up at her from the arena
    He smiled at her holding his lance; stained with the blood of a true knight

    Ottava Rima
    If the way people lived was like a tree
    Then maybe everyone would be happy
    Then everyone could just happily be
    I am not trying to sound to sappy
    But for once everyone might feel free
    I just think life would be not so crappy
    Everyone would get to stand up so tall
    Instead of having to feel quite so small

    In my mind I’m looking for a hero
    Someone to tell me it’s going to be fine
    No more wondering; are they friend or foe?
    I want him to say he’ll always be mine
    When I’m in trouble I want him to know
    I want him to fly with me to cloud nine

    No questions, no worries, just him and me
    I don’t need anyone who runs and hides

    Cinquains
    You are?
    Do in know you?
    I feel like I used to
    You were someone that I knew well
    Not now

    Away
    Just run away
    Pretend your life is new
    We’ll pretend it never happened
    Just go

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  11. Cinquains

    Sometimes
    I get lonely
    I get lost and hopeless
    I get a feeling of despair
    Sometimes

    I hate
    Structured poems
    I can’t stress this enough
    This is not creative at all
    Foolish

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  12. Haiku

    1. Tigers and waters
    Many styles and colors
    Such pretty lilies
    2. Light is a wonder
    Dim and bright, white or colored
    But always light paths
    3. The waves are shifting
    Just like a baby rocking
    A beautiful blue
    4. Snowflakes drifting by
    Pretty and white with shimmer
    Drifting and falling
    5. We’re all fireworks
    Bursting, shining, and at last
    Fading to nothing


    Lune
    1. A wonder
    How they cannot fly
    Yet are birds
    2. The tropics
    Birds of paradise
    And some fruits
    3. Planet Earth
    A world full of life
    And needs help
    4. Music notes
    Circling my mind
    End in song
    5. Fake or real?
    You decide its fate
    Live or die?

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  13. Pantoum

    Such wonderful things we take for granted
    Friends, education, wealth, talent
    It is so precious yet never thought of
    We simply do what we please

    Friends, education, wealth, talent
    God’s gifts to us
    We simply do wht we please
    But rarely thank Him for it all

    God’s gifts to us
    He made us each special
    But rarely thank him for it all
    What are we to do?

    He made us each special
    But we still do not see
    What are we to do?
    When our world cannot see the good?


    Ottava Rimas

    1. The truth is not true
    But on this day
    We find that our dreams are nothing but blue
    And that is when we pay
    When our hopes are crushed and we haven’t a clue
    Where do we go, a question you may
    To start over again
    Is when we pray and say amen
    2. They give so much for me
    For you and this whole place
    They are as brave and deadly as a bee
    Wishing to come home and embrace
    Your families are lost without thee
    So you feel fear and holes like lace
    But you are still strong and mighty
    Our dear soldiers, you shine so brightly


    Cinquains

    1. So much
    Once filling Earth
    But they were all chopped down
    To provide for their murderers
    Poor trees
    2. A cure
    To almost all
    Perks us up when we’re down
    How wonderful it really is
    Laughter

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  14. Sestina
    High above the mountains, high above the universe
    Proud and wild and beautiful like lilies
    Touching the clouds and lovely sky of sapphire
    Their hearts and eyes burn bright like fire
    They are the symbol for us as they soar in a ring
    And their glorious name; eagles


    These are the eagles
    Teaching their wisdom to the universe
    Engraved into a coin and a ring
    Flowers are jealous, escpecially the lilies
    For they cannot flee the fire
    And never see the sapphire


    The flowers, the mammals, the ants, they all long for the sapphire
    They long to be eagles
    To not be afraid of fire, but rather have their hearts light like fire
    They wish to explore the universe
    To discover mysteries and not be confined to Earth like lilies
    But this is where God has placed them, in this ring


    They are proud and free as they form their ring
    Still ceasing to touch the beautiful dome of sapphire
    They cannot see the lilies
    For they are small and so far down and they are eagles
    Free to journey the depths of the universe
    And not be consumed by the Earthly fire


    But this is no ordinary fire
    It resembles how we are all trapped in this ring
    This atmosphere that seperates us from the universe
    This force that only lets only see sapphire
    This trap that they can avoid, the eagles
    But you and I are trapped by, like the lilies


    For they know, the lilies
    That this is a hot fire, a burning fire
    It is burning within the eagles
    But it is confining us to this ring
    There is nothing we can do but watch the sapphire
    And only dream of what could be beyond our universe

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  15. Haikus:

    Pain seers through my head
    blood comes gushing out in streams
    Will this be the end


    Sitting on the couch
    nothing I have planned to do
    lazy days are
    Temperatures are low
    lower than they’ve been in years
    chills run through my bones

    It’s nearly midnight
    Tossing turning lying here
    But sleep just won’t come

    Time just slipps away
    but I drag on slow as death
    my battle is lost

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  16. Lunes


    Who are you
    I can feel you here
    haunting me

    Summer days
    sun shining so bright
    all is clear

    Broken glass
    from shattered windows
    all is lost

    Loud alarm
    Peerces through my ears
    cold air stings

    years go by
    everything’s the same
    I won’t change

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  17. Cinquains
    Patience
    being tested
    sometimes I just want to
    throw something out of the window
    and scream

    Music
    keeps me alive
    there’s no type I favor
    each genre reflects all my moods
    each day

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  18. Sestina

    I had a dream one night
    I was in the hospital
    just waiting for the opperation
    The doctor gave me medication to help me sleep
    but sleep just wouldn’t come
    so I just had to go home

    I was at home
    and the day became night
    I waited for sleep to come
    I eventually went back to the hospital
    and again tried to sleep
    so he could perform the opperation

    I had tried again to get the opperation
    after those terrible hours at home
    I was finally drifting off to sleep
    then that night
    a woman came to visit me at the hospital
    she had a lot of nerve to come

    The reason why she had to come
    was to tell me that in the middle of her opperation
    she woke up at the hospital
    I wanted to get home
    that terrible night
    and peacefully sleep

    no, I wouldn’t go to sleep
    back to the hospital I would come
    and sneak as quiet as night
    to the woman that had the opperation
    and before she goes home
    I’d give her another reason to stay at the hospital

    She would have to stay at the hospital
    Because she will forever sleep
    and never be able to go back home
    life will end for her when I come
    because she shouldn’t have told me about her opperation
    that terrible night

    But when I really go to the hospital
    I know sleep will come
    and there will be no crazy woman scaring me before I go home

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  19. Pantoum

    if you think the morning is the best part of the day
    if you are happy and cheery in the morning
    and if you’re able to spring out of bed early
    I will pick a fight with you

    If you are happy and cheery in the morning
    don’t talk to me at 6:00 A.M.
    cause I’ll pick a fight with you
    and I’m not in the mood for optimism

    Don’t talk to me at 6:00 A.M.
    because I’d rather be in a happy place
    I’m not in the mood for optimism
    because I am awake when I could be peacefully sleeping

    I’d rather be in a happy place
    and I need my peace and quiet
    because I am awake when I could be peacefully sleeping
    an my mind isn’t yet fully awake

    I need my peace and quiet
    and I don’t want to pay attention to anything
    because my mind isn’t yet fully awake
    and my mood isn’t yet posative

    I don’t want to pay attention to anything
    I don’t want to talk to anyone
    because my mood isn’t yet posative
    and my temper will worsen

    I don’t want to talk to anyone
    because I’ll easily get angry
    and my temper will worsen
    and nothing will be pretty

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  20. Otaba Rima

    The phone had rung last night at 12 oClock
    she answered then she bolted every lock
    the caller’s voice was familiar and hoarse
    his tone was full of great anger and force
    her husband who’d been dead for several years
    had came again to bring her aweful fears
    she thought her days of pain were finally gone
    but now she realized that she was wrong

    the wind was howeling right outside her door
    and wood was creeking as she paced the floor
    she knew just what was yet to come of her
    her life of torture wasn’t yet over
    the beatings and the constant angry shouts
    the yearning and desire to get out
    and when she thought his death had set her free
    his ghost returned, there was nowhere to flee

    she counted every second one by one
    the thunder clapped like the shot of a gun
    outside there was a banging on her door
    the air was cold and chilled her to the core
    her whole body just wouldn’t sease to shake
    she felt as if all of her limbs would break
    She sat upon the floor curled in a ball
    there was no way she could escape at all

    The door was bursting open with a whoosh
    she tried to close it with a great big push
    but forces knocked her down onto the floor
    tomorrow she knew she’d be very sore
    the chills from his ghost wrenching through her bones
    and all her limbs and muscles felt like stone
    surrendering while he went into her
    the dreadful night was only just a blur

    When she woke up she was still on the floor
    but everything in side, it was no more
    sharp pains were seering through her like a knife
    She’d just finished the worst night of her life
    he’d ruined her again like the old times
    and got away again with all his crimes






    I think this midterm schedule’s just wacked out
    and now they’re just tests I don’t care about
    There’s one I have to wait for every day
    whoever thught of this will have to pay
    one test I had to wait for for so long
    but still I have to take it and stay strong

    On friday when I leave and it’s all done
    I’ll eat and and eat until I weigh a ton
    I couldn’t care less what the people say
    cause I deserve it at the end of the day
    and I don’t plan on doing any work
    and if you think I should, then you're a jerk

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  21. Haikus (5):
    1.The slight breeze blowing
    Small ripples of water form
    On the smooth surface

    2.Dawn is approaching
    The light filters through darkness
    Life begins anew

    3. The fire blazes
    Hot infernos burn brightly
    Scorching heat consumes

    4. Snowflakes fall gently
    They dissipate on my tongue
    Spinning down softly

    5. The fragrant field is calm
    Serenity penetrates
    The tall grasses sway

    Lune poems (5):
    1. Manatees
    Placid and gentle
    Calmly free

    2. Cheerfulness
    Bright and positive
    Spirited

    3. Petunias
    Sweet-smelling and fresh
    Marigolds

    4. Free-thinking
    Imagination
    Enlightened

    5. Mother earth
    Diverse and unique
    Rich with life

    Cinquain poems (2):
    1. Light house
    Beacon of light
    Offering safe passage
    Hope to those who have gone astray
    Guiding

    2. Knowledge
    Comprehension
    Intuitive capacity
    Cerebral, rational thinker
    Clever

    Sestina:
    a. Truth
    b. Choice
    c. Reality
    d. Nature
    e. Purity
    f. Crimson

    A simple truth
    We all have to make a choice,
    Honesty and kindness should be made into reality,
    Yet, as human beings we are prone to a nature,
    That results in a lack of purity,
    And a flash of anger and crimson,

    Life causes us to act with chagrin, and turn us crimson
    We try to seek out the truth
    But we always face a lack of purity
    And corruptness that leads to a choice
    That can reinstate our fiery nature
    We are once again brought back to harsh reality

    Humans are endlessly searching for an acceptance of reality
    No matter how hard we try our frustration results in crimson
    Until the tranquility and gentleness of nature
    Reveals to us the truth
    We can then make the right choice
    When we can these, we obtain peace and purity

    This endless cycle of corruptness versus purity
    Defines what makes the harsh reality
    That is ever-present in the choice
    We all have to make no matter how discouragingly crimson
    We become when we face difficulties when trying to find truth
    Therefore, it is easier to let us act on humanity’s nature

    Earth is the location of beautiful and remarkable nature
    It is filled with aspects that are the ideal representations of purity
    However, it can be difficult to find hidden truth
    Amongst all of the discrepancies of reality
    Our thoughts become infiltrated by shades of crimson
    That causes us to make the wrong choice

    Hesitation and uncertainty reflect our choice
    Demonstrating the volatile characteristic of human nature
    Our lack of confidence results in the reinstatement of crimson
    That always seems to clouds purity
    Making the lines blur between our imagination and our reality
    Until we once again are resolved to unearth truth

    It is neither effortless nor painless to find truth and honesty in our choice
    It is as if reality is always trying to sway us from the good in human nature
    But if we try our hardest to find purity, we can overcome actions plagued with crimson

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    1. Pantoum:

      I walk along the lit path
      I allow my thoughts to wander
      A cool night gale careens across my face
      The light dims, casting eerie shadows on the trail

      I allow my thoughts to wander
      A melancholy feeling consumes my mind
      The light dims, casting eerie shadows on the trail
      I realize with sadness that the day is coming to an end

      A melancholy feeling consumes my mind
      I feel my age, the many years accumulating in my mind
      I realize with sadness that the day is coming to an end
      Memories flash in my eyes as I reflect on my life

      I feel my age, the many years accumulating in my mind
      With great sorrow, I recognize that there is no escaping death
      Memories flash in my eyes as I reflect on my life
      I savor the cool night air and the scent it carries with it

      With great sorrow, I recognize that there is no escaping death
      The twilight of my life has been reached
      I savor the cool night air and the scent it carries with it
      I ponder my existence with distinct understanding

      The twilight of my life has been reached
      I contemplate if I have brought happiness to others
      I ponder my existence with distinct understanding
      The setting sun creates patterns of light in the sky

      I contemplate if I have brought happiness to others
      My walking slows as I am consumed by my past
      The setting sun creates patters of light in the sky
      With sudden clarity, I understand that I am no longer gifted with a future

      My walking slows as I am consumed by my past
      Peacefulness filters through my soul
      With sudden clarity, I understand that I am no longer gifted with a future
      I glance up towards the heavens and see my new home

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    3. Ottava Rima (2):
      I stand alone in the deserted allies
      I watch avidly as life passes me by
      With despair, I look back on my follies
      I long for the sound of a contented sigh
      But my regrets are always taking tallies
      And I continue to bury myself in lies
      I pray for the joy that will bring me hope
      I plead for the freedom that will help me cope

      Sometimes, I can perceive glimpses of light
      I can feel the happiness growing slowly
      I fight for what is left with all my might
      Although my efforts and hard work fade dully
      I focus on troubles in words that I write
      I persist to search completely and wholly
      With a newfound sense of revolution
      I decide to start over with absolution

      Second Ottava Rima:
      Beneath the sorrow and hunger that brews
      A wrath directed at those in charge
      A hate so strong and lasting to
      For our livelihood they did disregard
      Houses, jewelry and jets they did accrue
      Living life so grand and large
      They amassed their wealth on reckless schemes
      Depriving us of our hopes and dreams

      Where are they now, these reckless CEO’s
      Are they on the unemployment line?
      Do they fear any remorse or woe?
      For the workers they left behind
      While they sit on new company boards and pretend to know
      They really should be imprisoned doing time
      These men still live as kings
      With all their toys and everything

      What does this say about our society?
      That we let these kings still lead
      Our future will hold such anxiety
      If we follow their greedy creed
      Have we no sense of goodness and propriety
      We must take heed
      And change our ways
      Or we will have no more glory days

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  22. Haikus:
    1. Trees brush together
    Blowing around in the wind
    Shaking the leaves off

    2. Love is amazing
    The feeling it can give you
    That is what love is

    3. The rising water
    Surrounds everything in sight
    Destroying my home

    4. We all need a break
    From the hectic world we live
    In, America

    5. This is our moment
    To live the way we want to
    To live out our dream

    Lunes:
    6. The world is
    Always spinning fast
    Circling

    7. Love music
    All different music
    I love it

    8. Lego house
    My favorite song
    About love

    9. Falling snow
    Covers everything
    Pretty, white


    10. Summer sun
    Shinning on the land
    Feeding all

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  23. Cinquains:
    11. Calling
    Waiting for an
    Answer to come from you
    Love with all of your heart, you just
    Sit there.

    12. I have
    The power to
    Fly across the blue sky
    Just like a superhero, I
    Can fly

    13. The pain
    Of loving you
    Make me cry everyday
    I want to stop loving you but
    I can’t

    14. Music
    Escape from life
    Expressing my feelings
    It can always tell how I feel
    Artist

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  24. Sestina:
    I have dyslexia
    Reading and writing for me is a struggle
    Sometimes I cannot read
    I have to take my time to learn
    People understand my problems, but not Chuck
    He is a tall, mean bully
    He has not always been a bully
    That was before I knew I had dyslexia
    Back when I was friends with Chuck
    Our friendship was not a struggle
    But now because I cannot learn
    He makes fun of me when I read

    When I read
    Chuck turns into a bully
    He has to learn
    That I have dyslexia
    Sometimes I struggle
    I hate Chuck

    I use to be friends with Chuck
    But he had never heard me read
    Until one day in creative writing when he heard me struggle
    That is when he turned into a bully
    All because of my dyslexia
    When will he learn?

    I try to learn
    But because of Chuck
    And my dyslexia
    I still cannot read
    Maybe if he was not such a bully
    I would not struggle

    My struggle
    To learn
    Is made fun of by Chuck the bully
    Thinks he can read
    Because he does not have dyslexia

    I have dyslexia and I struggle
    I try to read and learn
    But Chuck is mean and a bully who makes fun of me


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  25. Pantoum:
    The kitten strolled the snowy streets
    Her small prints trailed behind her
    She has been alone for some time now
    Since she left her family during the warmer months

    Her small prints trailed behind her
    She had left the life she use to live
    Since she left her family during the warmer months
    Walking away from the starvation and disease

    She had left the life she use to live
    She could not bear it anymore
    Walking away from the starvation and disease
    Into a world full of opportunities for a young kitten like her

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