Nicholas

 14/2/11

Ok, I have to admit that the acting and writing poetries were fun, and so did practicing with my friends. Although we went through a lot of learning and group work, we finally know how to write, read, act and understand poetries, which means we have achieved our Success Criteria. We acted Excuses, Excuses on the stage and it turned out pretty good and the "little kids" kind of liked it.

24/1/11
 * __How I feel about Poetry__**

What I like about Poetry is that I can explore new words and be as creative as possible and make stories in poems. I feel that Poetry is a new thing to learn and I can try to make a Poem.

What I don't like about Poetry is that I have to use very complicated words and make the story harder for other people to understand. Poetry is a new topic for me and I think that I might be able to make a simple poem but not those kind of poems that was made by William Shakespeare like for example:

Venus and Adonis  The Rape of Lucrece  The Passionate Pilgrim  The Phoenix and the Turtle  A Lover's Complaint

So far I am looking forward to learn poetry and I hope that when I'm done learning I can write my own creative poems.

A little doggy, Riding on a pony, How did it do that, I don't know that, Wait, I'm not done yet...

P-oetry is like a ladder, you have to climb it to understand it. O-verall, poetry is interesting but confusing. E-ver hard to understand, but it gives a tense kind of feeling T-all and Short, meaning long or short. R-hymes, sometimes not but it's nicer when it rhymes. Y-es, I finished writing the poem! Now, can I go now?

= ** How pleasant to know Mr. Lear a poem 5/1/11 ** =

** How pleasant to know Mr. Lear, **
 * Who has written such volumes of stuff. **
 * Some think him ill-tempered and queer, **
 * But a few find him pleasant enough. **


 * His mind is concrete and fastidious, **
 * His nose is remarkably big; **
 * His visage is more or less hideous, **
 * His beard it resembles a wig. **


 * He has ears, and two eyes, and ten fingers, **
 * (Leastways if you reckon two thumbs); **
 * He used to be one of the singers, **
 * But now he is one of the dumbs. **


 * He sits in a beautiful parlour, **
 * With hundreds of books on the wall; **
 * He drinks a great deal of marsala, **
 * But never gets tipsy at all. **


 * He has many friends, laymen and clerical, **
 * Old Foss is the name of his cat; **
 * His body is perfectly spherical, **
 * He weareth a runcible hat. **


 * When he walks in waterproof white, **
 * The children run after him so! **
 * Calling out, "He's gone out in his night- **
 * Gown, that crazy old Englishman, oh!" **


 * He weeps by the side of the ocean, **
 * He weeps on the top of the hill; **
 * He purchases pancakes and lotion, **
 * And chocolate shrimps from the mill. **

=The Kitten and the String =  by __ [|Jad] __ White ears erect while cocked head ponders, admiring the lose thread draping from the bed. The dirty white tail, swishes and twitches, while the amber eyes watch the string pass by. Alas curiosity reaches forward As pink pads and claws grasp the urging call. The sting is grasped~ Tug-a-warred with, yet holding fast above the playful paws shove. But excitement leaves as the kitten looks, seeing afar off a ball trailing after it, down the hall.
 * He reads, but he does not speak, Spanish, **
 * He cannot abide ginger beer; **
 * Ere the days of his pilgrimage vanish, **
 * How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! **

Comment for Poems: I think poems are the most original idea out of all the other forms of poems like rap, limericks, haikus etc. I kind of like poems because it gives the idea of what something is doing and what is going on in the poem. Poems can be very interesting although some can be a little hard to understand, like how we thought poems would be like before we started learning it. I chose both of these poems because they are both funny and also the rhyming words enhance the poems and make it... *Arghh I don't know how to explain* make it... make it... different. = Rap 5/1/11 =

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Lyrics of this Rap

[Chester Bennington:]

Together we made it We made it even though we had our backs up against the wall

[Busta Rhymes:] See it yo I survived the worst but my life is glorious But I know that I live to be hurdled and I'm so victorious Take a look I'm a symbol of greatness now call a nigga Morpheus As force accumalted the wind and but a believe I'm so notorious You know I've been buying my bread even though we rapping now (yes) And now when you look on my trip and you a nigga higher level tramping now And you see that everyone on my middle struggles and For your ass is never been an option A nigga paper long like we was on the trap and I'm about to take the hood choppin Get it!

[Chorus: Chester Bennington (Busta Rhymes) {Mike Shinoda}] Together we made it (you see we did it niggas) We made it even though we had our backs up against the wall (c'mon) Forever we waited (haha!) And they told us we were never going to get it But we took it on the road (to the riches) On the road (to the ghetto) On the road (and the projects to this banging instrumental) On the road (ride with me) {yeah, yeah} On the road (you come and get it) {yeah, yeah} On the road {yeah, yeah, yeah, yo! }

[Mike Shinoda:] When it all got started we was steadily just getting rejected And it seemed like nothing we could do would ever get us respected At best we was stressed and the worst they probably said was we're pathetic Had all the pieces to that puzzle just a way to get connected And I was fighting through every ryhme tighting up every line Never resting the question and I was out of my mind And it finally came time to do it or let it die So put the chips on the table and told me to let it ride Sing it! Ya!

[Chorus: Chester Bennington (Busta Rhymes)] Together we made it (you see we did it niggas) We made it even though we had our backs up against the wall (c'mon) Forever we waited (haha!) And they told us we were never going to get it But we took it on the road (to the riches) On the road (to the ghetto) On the road (and the projects to this banging instrumental) On the road (ride with me) On the road (you come and get it) On the road (ya, ya, ya)

[Busta Rhymes:] Look in case you mis-understanded exactly what I'm building The shit that I could live for my children (children) children (children) Now I only wake up I smile to see how far I've come Fighting for sales on a strip to get hustle from From nights in jail on a bench using my muscles son To count money like Dre, and Jimmy and Russell Ones (ya nigga) But now I live when I dream you see me finally getting it (oh!) Let's make a toast to the hustle regardless how we get it Singing!

[Chorus: Chester Bennington (Busta Rhymes)] Together we made it (you see we did it niggas) We made it even though we had our backs up against the wall (c'mon) Forever we waited (haha!) And they told us we were never going to get it But we took it on the road (to the riches) On the road (to the ghetto) On the road (and the projects to this banging instrumental) On the road (ride with me) On the road (you come and get it) On the road (ya, ya, ya, ya)

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Comment for Rap: I think rap is interesting although the words doesn't exactly rhyme and I don't understand some of the words and sentences. Rap is a little different from poems, because if you look at a poem and a rap, you can't exactly differentiate which one is which, and raps are usually being said out in a movie.

Haikus

**From the skyscraper, ** ** All the bustling streets converge ** ** Towards a spring sea. **


 * Keep straight down this block, **
 *  Then turn right where you will find **
 *  A peach tree blooming. **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Comment for Haikus: For Haikus I think that is a little confusing because they only have three sentences and they usually let you guess what will happen next. I like these Haikus a little because they're more interesting then other Haikus, because usually Haikus let you guess something on the last sentence. **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Limericks **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Who never knew what he should do; <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> So he tore off his hair, <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> And behaved like a bear, <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> That intrinsic Old Man of Peru. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There was an Old Man of Peru,

<span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> Who caught a large fish without scales; <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> When she lifted her hook <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> She exclaimed, 'Only look!' <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> That ecstatic Young Lady of Wales. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">There was a Young Lady of Wales,

Comment for Limericks: For Limericks i think they are very informative and they are basically telling everything that is happening in the story. Limericks tells a different story from all the other forms of poems, I think its because they tell "there was a person of somewhere" then "the person did something" and everything is just about how the person reacts and what the person did. I chose these two poems because they were written in a interesting way that is different from other poems. I think that I'll give a 4 out of 5 for these limericks, because they were very informative, interesting, partly silly, but the reason I gave this two poems a 3 to 4 stars is because there are some hard words and I don't really read Limericks.

Humorous

=<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',Verdana,Arial,'Times New Roman',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">//**The New Kid**// =

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<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;">Our baseball team never did very much, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;">We had me and PeeWee and Earl and Dutch. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> And the Oak Street Tigers always got beat <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> Until the new kid moved in on our street.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> The kid moved in with a mitt and a bat <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> And an official New York Yankee hat. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> The new kid plays shortstop or second base <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> And can outrun us all in any place.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> The kid never muffs a grounder or fly <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> No matter how hard it's hit or how high. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> And the new kid always acts quite polite, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> Never yelling or spitting or starting a fight.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> We were playing the league champs just last week; <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> They were trying to break our winning streak. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> In the last inning the score was one-one, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> When the new kid swung and hit a home run.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> A few of the kids and their parents say <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> They don't believe that the new kid should play. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> But she's good as me, Dutch, PeeWee or Earl, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> So we don't care that the new kid's a girl.

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<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',Verdana,Arial,'Times New Roman',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Anonymous**

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;">Every ten years, as summertime nears, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> An announcement arrives in the mail. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> "A reunion is planned; it'll be really grand, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> Make plans to attend without fail".

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> I'll never forget the first time we met, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> We tried so hard to impress. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> We drove fancy cars, smoked big cigars, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> And wore our most elegant dress.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> It was quite an affair; the whole class was there. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> It was held at a fancy hotel. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> We wined, and we dined, and we acted refined, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> And everyone thought it was swell.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> The men all conversed about who had been first <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> To achieve great fortune and fame. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> Meanwhile, their spouses described their fine houses <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> And how beautiful their children became.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> The homecoming queen, who once had been lean, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> Now weighed in at one-ninety-six. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> The jocks who were there had all lost their hair, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> And the cheerleaders could no longer do kicks.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> No one had heard about the class nerd <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> Who'd guided a spacecraft to the moon; <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> Or poor little Jane, who's always been plain, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> She married a shipping tycoon.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> The boy we'd decreed "most apt to succeed" <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> Was serving ten years in the pen, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> While the one voted "least" now was a priest; <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> Just shows you can be wrong now and then.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> They awarded a prize to one of the guys <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> Who seemed to have aged the least. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> Another was given to the grad who had driven <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> The farthest to attend the feast.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> They took a class picture, a curious mixture <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> Of beehives, crew cuts and wide ties. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> Tall, short, or skinny, the style was the mini, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> You never saw so many thighs.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> At our next get-together, no one cared whether <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> They impressed their classmates or not. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> The mood was informal, a whole lot more normal, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> By this time we'd all gone to pot.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> It was held out-of-doors, at the lake shores, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> We ate hamburgers, coleslaw, and beans. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> Then most of us lay around in the shade, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> In our comfortable T-shirts and jeans.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> By the fortieth year, it was abundantly clear, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> We were definitely over the hill. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> Those who weren't dead had to crawl out of bed, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> And be home in time for their pill.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> And now I can't wait--they've set the date, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> Our fiftieth is coming, I'm told. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> It should be a ball, they've rented a hall <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> At the Shady Rest Home for the old.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> Repairs have been made on my hearing aid, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> My pacemaker's been turned up on high. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> My wheelchair is oiled, and my teeth have been boiled, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> And I've bought a new wig and glass eye.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> I'm feeling quite hearty, and I'm ready to party, <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> I'm gonna dance 'til dawn's early light. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> It'll be lots of fun. but I just hope that there's one <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana,arial,'Times New Roman',sans-serif,helvetica; line-height: normal;"> Other person who can make it that night.

Comment for Humorous: I think that Humorous are the same like poems except they are longer and funny. I chose this two poems because they were funny and also because they are very detailed.

Sonnets

>> >> >> SONNET #18 >> **// by: William Shakespeare //** HALL I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date.Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimmed;And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed:But thy eternal summer shall not fadeNor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shadeWhen in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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Little Things My beach goes on forever, left and right; Its vast expanse is more than I can tell. And though I like to stretch my farthest sight, I try to look for little things as well. A little crab with little legs and claws Reminds me of myself; I’m little too. And when he halts I also stop to pause And wonder where he’s going, what he’ll do. I wonder if the little crab’s aware Of just how big the world around him is? I wonder what my eyes would notice there If I could for one moment see through his. Then kneeling low I see, and see it’s grand; His beach is made of tiny grains of sand.

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Comment for Sonnets: I chose this two sonnets because they are really all the same as all the other sonnets, but the reason why I chose these two is because they are hard to understand and I could try to understand what they are actually talking about. After reading the sonnets, I think that sonnets are just talking about what the person is seeing and what he or she feels and very imaginative thoughts. Especially the sonnet that was made by William Shakespear was complicated but detailed and interesting. ======

==<span style="color: #0b2943; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Georgia,Times; font-size: 24px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: left;">**The Ballad Of The Turkey** == © G Yates <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',Times,'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px;">As I walked along the road one day Kicking up stones along the way, I saw a bird of unusual size Who had a large beak and small, beady eyes.

He strutted about and ruffled his wings Then he did the most ominous thing. He let out a screech and puffed out his chest I wanted to run from this evil pest.

As this bird's mighty exterior did appear The inside of my chest was filled with fear. He put one talon forward, the other one next This troublesome bird was making me vexed.

I then did something that was a great chance. I kicked a stone at him to stop his advance. He then chased the stone, oh joy of great joys! I felt myself one of the luckiest boys!

Around the corner I ran, straight to my home, Leaving that bird confused and alone. Don't befriend a turkey (for that's what he was) Or he will attack you simply because. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',Times,'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',Times,'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px;"> <span style="display: block; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px;">

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"> ** The Mermaid ** ** by ** ** Author Unknown ** ** 'Twas Friday morn when we set sail, ** ** And we had not got far from land, ** ** When the Captain, he spied a lovely mermaid, ** ** With a comb and a glass in her hand. ** ** Chorus ** ** Oh the ocean waves may roll, ** ** And the stormy winds may blow, ** ** While we poor sailors go skipping aloft ** ** And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below ** ** And the land lubbers lay down below. ** ** Then up spoke the Captain of our gallant ship, ** ** And a jolly old Captain was he; ** ** "I have a wife in Salem town, ** ** But tonight a widow she will be." ** ** Chorus ** ** Then up spoke the Cook of our gallant ship, ** ** And a greasy old Cook was he; ** ** "I care more for my kettles and my pots, ** ** Than I do for the roaring of the sea." ** ** Chorus ** ** Then up spoke the Cabin-boy of our gallant ship, ** ** And a dirty little brat was he; ** ** "I have friends in Boston town ** ** That don't care a ha' penny for me." ** ** Chorus ** ** Then three times 'round went our gallant ship, ** ** And three times 'round went she, ** ** And the third time that she went 'round ** ** She sank to the bottom of the sea. **

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Comments for Ballad: I chose these two Ballads because "I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING!!!" *I DON'T LIKE MERMAIDS!!!* I just chose these two ballads because **it is** funny "Not the Mermaid one but the Turkey one". For the Mermaid poem I think that the ballad is quite interesting but I don't quite agree with the title of "The Mermaid" because I don't think there is any mermaids in there. Does Mermaid have another meaning? Let me check... emm Mermaid means... mermaid |ˈmərˌmād| noun a fictitious or mythical half-human sea creature with the head and trunk of a woman and the tail of a fish, conventionally depicted as beautiful and with long flowing golden hair.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">I don't see any sea creature that has a tail of a fish in the ballad and this is why I disagree.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Cinquain

<span style="color: #303030; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">**River** <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"> **by Miki**

<span style="color: #303030; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"> River <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"> Clear, wonderful <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"> Slapping, whirling, flowing <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"> The river is cold. <span style="color: #303030; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"> Water


 * Dove**
 * by Min**

Dove Active, free Flying, sitting, crying A dove is free. Bird

Comment for Cinquain: I like these two cinquains because *they are really hard to explain* emm... because of the words and the way they write it. I kind of like cinquains because they explain something in very little words, which makes the reader having some kind of like *I Can't explain it... Why is it so Hard!?!?!?!?!* like "Wow, I never thought there will be a form of poem described in such little words. When I searched up the word cinquain on the internet, they said it meant a **five-line stanza** apparently of **medieval origin**, often with two, four, six, eight, and two syllables respectively in the five lines. I quite agree with the meaning of cinquain and it gives out a very mysterious and said in a draggy way.

Calligrams





Comment for Calligrams: Caliigrams means beautiful writing which is writing in patterns, shapes and many other shapes and sizes. I chose these two calligrams because they were quite nice. *Ok, fine, Honestly I don't exactly like these two calligrams, number 1 is because I'm desperate, and number two is I think these are the only two proper calligrams that I can find.

Free Verses

<span style="color: #3366cc; display: block; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.83em;">**After the Sea-Ship by Walt Whitman**
After the Sea-Ship—after the whistling winds; After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes, Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks, Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship: Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying, Waves, undulating waves—liquid, uneven, emulous waves, Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves, Where the great Vessel, sailing and tacking, displaced the surface;

<span style="color: #3366cc; display: block; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.83em;">**Fog by Carl Sandburg**
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

Comment for Free Verse: I don't really *understand* free verse poems, I chose these two free verses because I was going through a list of free verse poems and I came to these two poems and I read and read and read and... So I decided to choose these two poems... *Wait I'm supposed to talk about why I chose it*. I chose these poems because they are... good. I'll give a 3 out of 5 for this poem because I don't really read free verse poems.\

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Stories and Poems

Stories are meant to be fake, And writing it is as easy as it can take, Some are about a dragon in a lake, Some are even about... "GIMME A BREAK"

But writing a poem is never the same, It's more complicated and not tame, And some can be really lame, As Long as it doesn't spoil my day.

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Looking at a Marshmellow, it looks like a rainbow, Even a Giant Toe, mabye... a toilet roll

I hope you enjoy both of them! by: Nicholas Chin Jie

Onomatepia Poem

Burp, Slurp thank you for the breakfast The housekeeper said: No Problem Just watch your manners, ok, whats for lunch? Slurp, Burp thank you for the lunch I told you to watch your manners, I know I did it the other way, Just Stop it, ok fine, what’s for dinner? BURP! SLURP! That’s it! Why won’t you listen!? But you said no more Burping or Slurping *Burp* No more Slurping or Burping or Riding or Having or Peeing or... You mean I can’t pee? Shhhh.....h...h...h...h...h...h...h

27/1/11

Hello, it is the last time we are doing poetry (I'm not sure) and I still remember when we were complaining about Poetry being lame, boring, hard, confusing... etc.. but now I'm having second thoughts.

The First time I tried writing a poem was actually quite fun, because of so many ideas you could actually think of about writing a poem. Poems are quite fun, and if you ask me, I kind of like poems (not in a "happy way") I mean just like... in a little enjoying way. After all the teachings and class work, I think it was worth learning poetry. ^_^