Kristen

04/01/11

 How I feel about poetry:  I think poetry is fun and exciting because some of them are fun to listen to and the rhymes make them more enjoyable. Poetry is separated into lines/paragraphs so that it is easier to find the rhymes.  I enjoy reading poems by famous poets because they are experienced in writing poems therefore the poems make more sense (most of the time).  However I do not like poetry that is too hard, complicated and confusing, for example if it uses to many hard words and it's something that is puzzling.  There are some poems that make no sense and are very hard to figure out those are also one of the things i dislike about poetry.

 06/01/11

 I still feel the same way about poetry but now I have now learned that there are MANY kinds of poetry.

10/01/11

I feel that this poem is about somebody who is a slave on the deck of a boat. Once on the boat is whipped and tortured and killed. After being killed is in Limbo ( between hell and heaven ). I did not like this poem because after seeing the video of slavery it made me feel angry of how people torture others just because they might be african.

27/01/11

I still enjoy poetry but now I realise that there is many styles of poetry and poetry is something we use everyday without knowing it. When we listen to music there is most likely to be poetry in it. Even when we talk we might use poetry. There is so much poetry in the world and you might not like them all but there is one kind of poetry out there for you. Even if your a lover of poetry its not likely that you will love ALL the poetry ever written.

 RAP POETRY

Poetry On The Streets By Eminem

The press runs to tape-record the bloody mess Documentation so the human race can study death <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">They'll reach you through your TV speaker <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">They'll feature a creature that will beat you to death if he could meet you <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You're executed when you're electrocuted <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Who's responsible for a homeless man that's dead and smells putrid <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We murdered your natural flesh after being thrown in a river <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You will be frozen forever into a statue of death <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A grasshopper in the lab dead <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Stabbed in the head <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Knives are like the hands of a crab <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Jabbing your flab till you wrapped them and bled <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Throw you off a building <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Killing off your children <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Drilling' holes in your corpse till you're spilling the color vermilion <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We'll split your brains <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I'll slit your vein <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The impact of a bat cracked across your back is like getting hit by a train <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I'll stick a fang in your blood bank <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Then strangle my shangle bangle you like the triangle piece of bangle <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I might be the only one capable of digesting the dose <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You won't survive a screwdriver driven inside your throat <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Choke on blood and saliva another conniver croaks

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">CHORUS: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It's poetry in the streets of the big apple <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And a vitality found in few other places <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">But look beneath the surface of the city <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And you shall uncover a seething cesspool of human emotions <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Gone sour <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A planet with nightmares that become reality <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Witness the brutality

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">There's poetry in the streets of the big apple <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You get tackled <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And grappled to the floor, white slaved up and shackled

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Grind you into slop meat and serve you to your friends <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We're moving bad taste <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Another brutal shooting rampage <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Turning humans to ashtrays <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Groupies to crack slaves <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Squirting mad milk, I never have guilt <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In front of your mom and your dads grill <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Splattering both of them <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">With pieces of your exploding head <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Brain fragments staining' clothing red <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I make you love the pain, it hurts <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We make music for drug addict pieces of shit that love the dirt <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It's psychological <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I'm like having a rifle shot at you <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We're not the type that smile at you <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We're the type to body you <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Slit your throat with a broken bottle <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Watch it kill your physical first, next your minds lost <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Leave you in the funeral home you make a fine corpse <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Got you splattered across the walls when my nine talks! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Murder you execution style like a crime boss <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Travel through time and terminate you like a cyborg <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My mentality's grind core

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My Opinion On Poem: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This song is fun because it rhymes and it has rhythm. However this song is quite violent and most of the lines are about shooting and killing etc. but it is still a fun song and poem for me. A lot of people can relate to this song/poem because they have always had that moment in life when they messed up and they didn’t know how to handle it or they got angry at someone and these might have gone through their heads.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">By Tupac Shakur

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Why am I fighting to live, if I'm just living to fight <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Why am I trying to see, when there ain't nothing in sight <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Why am I trying to give, when no ones gives me a try <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Why am I dying to live, if I'm just living to die? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Someone tell me why

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> My Opinion On the Poem: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> I like this poem because I find that these things are true but also that we should never give up even if we gain nothing in the end. We go through wonderful lives and set goals that we eventually accomplish in the end but always end up dying. We want to try something but nobody will give us a chance too and I think this is what the poem is saying. At the end is says "Someone tell me why" which me wonder why and question myself. That is what I like about this poem.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">HAIKU POETRY

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">By Kyoshi Takahama

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The winds that blows <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ask them, which leaf on the tree <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">will be next to go.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My Opinion On The Poem: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I can relate to this poem because in our lives we meet a lot of people and make a lot of friends but almost always have to leave them and say goodbye to them in the end. Nexus is a good example because it is an international school a lot of people come to this school and leave. When a person leave the school it is like the leaf falling of the tree and you wonder who will be the next to leave. This poem is very short and yet explains a lot about life.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">By Masaoka Shiki

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">For love and for hate <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I swat a fly and offer it <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">to an ant.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My Opinion On The Poem: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I like this poem because in life a lot of things have to kill just to survive. In the poem it gives us the example killing a fly to keep an ant alive. At the top it says "For love and for hate" he does it for love of the ant and wanting to keep it alive but for hate of having to kill something else. It is like the saying "give one and take one" and everything has its down points.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> HUMOROUS POETRY **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I wrote an awful poem,
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">By Sandra R.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> it was bad in the extreme, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> I showed it to my sister, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> and it made my sister scream. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> I gave it to my mother and she promptly flipped her slid, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> my father blew a gasket <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> and my little brother hid. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> I brough it with me <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> to school today, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> my teacher nearly fainted <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> and my friends ran away.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My Opinion On The Poem: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> I enjoy this poem because it is funny. It is funny to me just because of the idea of making a poem about how awful the poem is. The poem cannot be awful because it is talking about how awful it is therefore making the poem confusing and funny. To me this is a poem within a poem.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">By Correy Simmons

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Got a problem with me? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Go solve it. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Think im trippin? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Tie my shoes. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Cant stand me? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Sit down. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Cant face me? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Turn around….

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My Opinion On The Poem: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I like this poem because these are things we say everyday and they mean different things but in this poem they make it as if the solution is so easy. When a person says "think im trippin?" normally means if they think the person is cool or etc. or if they say "Cant stand me?" means they are annoyed at the person. In real life these are problems that are hard to solve but they make the solutions things that we do everyday.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">FREE VERSE POETRY **

=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Messy Room by Shel Silverstein =

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Whosever room this is should be ashamed! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> His underwear is hanging on the lamp. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> His raincoat is there in the overstuffed chair, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> And the chair is becoming quite mucky and damp. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> His workbook is wedged in the window, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> His sweater's been thrown on the floor. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> His scarf and one ski are beneath the TV, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> And his pants have been carelessly hung on the door. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> His books are all jammed in the closet, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> His vest has been left in the hall. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> A lizard named Ed is asleep in his bed, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> And his smelly old sock has been stuck to the wall. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Whosever room this is should be ashamed! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Donald or Robert or Willie or-- <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Huh? You say it's mine? Oh, dear, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> I knew it looked familiar!

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> My Opinion Of The Poem: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> I find this poem funny because after he blames people for being so messy and saying things like they should clean up in the end it was his room. To me the moral of the story is " Judge yourself before you judge somebody else ". The person in this poem thinks of how awful the owner of the room is because their so messy and never clean up or fold their clothes but when he finds out it was his room he regrets all that he said.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I now delight <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In spite <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Of the might <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And the right <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Of classic tradition, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In writing <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And reciting <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Straight ahead, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Without let or omission, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Just any little rhyme <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In any little time <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">That runs in my head; <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Because, I’ve said, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My rhymes no longer shall stand arrayed <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Like Prussian soldiers on parade <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">That march, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Stiff as starch, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Foot to foot, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Boot to boot, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Blade to blade, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Button to button, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Cheeks and chops and chins like mutton. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">No! No! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My rhymes must go <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Turn ’ee, twist ’ee, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Twinkling, frosty, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Will-o’-the-wisp-like, misty; <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Rhymes I will make <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Like Keats and Blake <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And Christina Rossetti, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">With run and ripple and shake. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How pretty <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">To take <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A merry little rhyme <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In a jolly little time <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And poke it, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And choke it, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Change it, arrange it, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Straight-lace it, deface it, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Pleat it with pleats, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sheet it with sheets <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Of empty conceits, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And chop and chew, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And hack and hew, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And weld it into a uniform stanza, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And evolve a neat, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Complacent, complete, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Academic extravaganza!

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My Opinion On The Poem:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I Like it because its a fun poem and the rhymes make it even better. To me this poem is about rhymes and has tons of rhymes in it and because of that I like this poem. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Almost every line in this poem rhymes with something and all the sentences in this poem are random but because it is about rhyming it makes sense.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">BALLAD POETRY **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A girl am I and gladly do rejoice <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> in the new season of the year, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Thanks be to Love and to my happy thoughts. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Through the green meadows do I go

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">to see the yellow flowers and the white and red, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> the roses on their thorns and the white-flowers-deluce; <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> and I go likening them to the face of him <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> who loving me hath captured me, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> even as she that doth desire <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> naught else save her delight. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(Translated by Richard Aldington)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My Opinion On The Poem: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I like this poem because it starts off about how happy they are that its a new season and all the beauty of the season. To me it is saying that we should notice the beauty of the world around us and how happy we should to be alive because now days people never notice anything around them anymore like the little details in the smallest things are the best things.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Indian removal act <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> gave power to use force, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> to make the Indians retract <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> past Mississippi's course. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Indians transplanted, were <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> left to persue their life <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> roaming free west of the river. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Then later came the strife. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Civil War had ended. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> White people wanted land. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Farmers, miners, trappers, all move <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> west to try their hand. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The timbermen and railroaders <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> all helped to forge the way. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Indian land, prime territory <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> was where they meant to stay. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The government had promised the <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Indian's salvation, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> so they signed a treaty to stay <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> on a reservation. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In exchange they'd get a payment <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> but promises weren't kept. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> In desperate fighting for redress <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> many tears were wept. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Well-armed and well-fed soldiers had <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> effectively destroyed <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> the independent Indians <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> now scattered and deployed. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Their way of life has disappeared, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> with it old traditions. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Now living in a white mans world <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> under new conditions. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It's so hard to find employment. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> They keep it all inside, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> malnutrition and dysfunction <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> alcohol, suicide. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Betrayed, their freedom stolen, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> they feel isolation. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Indians endure their lives in <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> quiet desperation.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My Opinion On The Poem: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This poem is about life and how hard life can be at times. How Indians had pressure on their lives and lived by the river and the white people wanted land. The wars we had throughout the years and how Indians had to live with white people and it was almost impossible for them to find employment. I like this poem because it is about how life is at times.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">CINQUAIN POETRY **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">They Won!

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Players, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Proud and joyful <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Take a well deserved rest. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Dedication and sacrifice <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Paid off.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My Opinion On This Poem: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">To me this poem means that to accomplish anything in life you must work hard for it. It takes Dedication and sacrifice just like the poem said. In this poem the players had worked very hard and in the end accomplished their goal. So in real life you should keep trying to do what you want even tough it's impossible. That is why I like this poem.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Oceans <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> hidden secrets <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> are a living wonder <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> for those who take time to open <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> their eyes.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> My Opinion On The Poem: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> I like this poem because life is full of secrets and we hide a lot of them. In this case the ocean is us and we are hiding our secrets so we should open up and not have any secrets.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> LIMERICK POETRY **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">There was an Old Man with a beard, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Who said, 'It is just as I feared! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Two Owls and a Hen, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Four Larks and a Wren, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Have all built their nests in my beard!'

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> By Edward Lear

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My Opinion On The Poem: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I think that this poem is funny because it is not possible to have a single nest in somebody's beard but in this poem they said 4 animals fit all their nest into his beard. Therefore it makes you think in your head of how big the man's beard could possible be and you start making up images of him in your head.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">There was an Old Man of the West, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Who wore a pale plum-coloured vest; <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> When they said, 'Does it fit?' <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> He replied, 'Not a bit!' <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> That uneasy Old Man of the West.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">By Edward Lear

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My Opinion On The Poem: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The man in this poem is funny because a bought a plum coloured vest and wore it around that day but when somebody asked if it fit him he said " not a bit". He should have bought a new one or another one or just take it off but it is funny because he just kept it on and walked around.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> FREE CHOICE **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Rainbow

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">After summer's rain <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">God's promise is remembered <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">glorious rainbow

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My Opinion On The Poem: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I like this poem because normally after it rains the sun shows up and shines and then a rainbow is formed. In this poem they say after the rain God keeps his promise and makes a rainbow himself. To me it is like after all the bad things something even greater will happen.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">On New Year's Day <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> I long to meet my parents <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> as they were before my birth.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">By Natsume Soseki

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My Opinion On The Poem: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I think this poem means that the child wants to know what his parents were like before his time. I like this poem because almost every kid wants to know what their parents were like before they were born. For example when your parents scold you for doing something wrong you might start to wonder if they ever made the mistakes you made.


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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Sonnet Cakes by Irene C S ClarkHogg

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Catch a passing flock of words <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Put them in a pan <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> To make a happy sonnet <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> For your favourite man.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Add a pinch of rhythm <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> A spoonful of rhyme <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Pop them in the oven <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Then wait some time

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Check if they are burning <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Consult with your muse <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> About variety in flavours, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> In structure, different views.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Jolly sonnet cakes for tea <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Some for you and some for me.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My Opinion On The Poem: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I like this poem because it is telling you how to make a sonnet poem as if your cooking it. It is also a little weird because you shouldn't put a poem in an oven or add in a pinch of rhythm or a spoonful of rhyme. But that is why this poem is funny because it says things that are weird and not really possible.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I miss you by Fabrice Wonga

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> When you cared for me in my youth, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> With a kind-spirited finger you touched my heart, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Now fingerprints of your legacy remain, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Engraved in the depth of my soul, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> For that…I thank you, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Your selfless nature, if possible, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Would have moved mountains yonder, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Just to appease my needs, your deeds I honour, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> With the lasting memories of grace, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> And Of your undying love, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> So I send my love through a dove, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Dove: filled with halos of your spirit passé, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> The dove is these words of sonnet; this sonnet wears “I-miss-you”. ||  ||   ||
 * || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“I-miss-you” because you blessed my heart with pure joy,

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> My Opinion On The Poem: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> I like this poem because I think it is a very sweet poem. I like the parts where it says "With a kind-spirited finger you touched my heart" because I think it is very original and is the nicest part in the poem. A lot of poems may use "You touched my heart" or so but this one added the part "with a kind-spirited finger".


 * CALLIGRAM POETRY**

My Opinion On This Poem: I like this poem because I find it funny and confusing. It was confusing for me at first I couldn't figure out what the poem meant but after reading it awhile I think I understood what it meant. It is hard for me to explain what I think of this poem because I do not now how to put my thoughts into words. I think this poem means you shouldn't judge a man by his answers but by his questions because if your a married couple and you come home from work or something he might not ask how was your day which isn't that good or he might ask which is good. Normally guys answer with short answers so you shouldn't judge them by they answers. I might be wrong but in my opinion this is what the poem means.



My Opinion On The Poem: I think this poem is funny and it reminds me of the book we read in year 7 called 'Free'. The boy in the poem went true all the trouble, guilt and noise just for a cookie. I am guessing the boy in the story is a very good person and doesn't like doing bad things which is why he was so worried and felt so guilty just to go take a cookie in his own house.

Poetry I Wrote.

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Doll The doll on my shelf, The doll my uncle gave me, He who passed away, As I grew old for dolls, That doll I still loved.

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Memories Beautiful Night, Secret Memory.

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Autumn Tree Wise Golden Autumn Tree Shine On You.

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Puzzle of Life It is the puzzle of life. As some go up, some go down. As some go down, some go up.

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Friendship A good Friendship involves: Kindness, Trust, Memories, laughs and so much more But most importantly No Lies.

Poetry Poetry is an unseen world, And within that world, Are mazes with twisting paths, Only those who try, Will get to the other end.

By Kristen Louis

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<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The School Playground is full of noise during school <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">As the kids come screaming with and playing. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Falling down with a thud and then getting up again. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">As they go down the slide you can hear them go whoosh. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Then to the swings wear you can hear the rusty metal go cling cling. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Over to the see-saw where the spring goes boing. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">And the bell goes ring ring! <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> They all walk silently to class....

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">By Kristen Louis