Marina+Stuart

"A poem beings in delight and ends in wisdom" -Robert Frost As a poet I usually either write about my emotions or a moment in time. When I write about moments in time, I pick a specific time and write about it, stretching it out, making it more important and giving it more depth. Same if I am writing about emotions. I use metaphors and similes to really show how the person is feeling. I usually don’t rhyme in my poems because I feel people take it less seriously if it rhymes. For the structure of my poems I usually make them on the shorter side and I enjoy playing with breakage points. I feel this adds to the poems and helps emphasize important words. A technique I have learned is writing poetry from the point of view of another person. Trying to experience how they felt and how they would describe the situation if they were writing about it. To do this, I have to actually create a character, a situation they find themselves in, and where they are. I usually have some sort of image in my mind. Another technique I learned in the poetry unit is the use of capitalization and punctuation in poetry. In one of my poems I write from the point of view from a 5 year old kid "grown ups have to duck while i walk tall Head up, Shoulders back some Jumping is even possible" I do not capitalize the “i” but I do capitalize “head”, “shoulders”, and “jumping”. The reason for making the “i” lower case was to show the young age and make the child seem slightly less mature. I capitalized the other words to show what was important to the child. Head and Shoulders gives the image of walking straight up and proud, exactly like the kid was doing. The Jumping is the important thing in the child’s mind and thus capitalized. I really enjoy writing poetry and try to image someone in the future studying my poetry just like we have been doing with other poetry and wondering what they would say about my word choices or what the poem means to them. It usually makes the poem a lot more interesting and mysterious if you have that mindset.

__**Poem 1**__-single laughs Jump. Jump.

no ducking needed for a 5 year old puddles show no reflection in the dark of a lava tunnel

Drip. Drip.

scoot around the puddles  avoid the drops falling from the cones of stone above

Slap. Slap.

the sediment slips underneath sandals beat against the sopping ground and a single laugh  echos off the tunnel

Walls.

__**Poem 2**__-minefield of Joy leaving the bright illumination of mid-morning sunshine  into the darkness that has no end where Drip and Drop are frequent and grown ups must stoop to pass

grown ups have to duck while i walk tall Head up, Shoulders back some Jumping is even possible

Jumping is now unavoidable shallow dark puddles dot the tunnel for this little Kid its heaven a minefield of Joy  awaits

__**Riff Poem**__-Rain Boots Let me take my love and bury it in a hole 6-foot deep Let me rip my heart out and throw it in there too Along with the flowers and chocolate you once gave me Along with all the memories

Pain is passion And love is pain Thus Love = passion?

It maybe is in the beginning In those fleeting, stolen, secret hours Of bliss and happiness When the sun shone on my life and it rained joy.

But not now Not since You destroyed me

My life is a puddle being stepped in I try to see my reflection But its blurry Unclear  Ruined by your rain boots

(First line from "Rest in Peace" by Joss Whedon) __**Ode**__-Tea

when i was young mommy would make “special Tea” with milk and sugar from then i was hooked

sweet Tea spicy Tea peppermint sleepy time ginger english breakfast Tea

any kind any time its good with me

in the morning it soothes my aching throat in the afternoon it warms my hands in the night it quiet disposition makes me sleepy

sweet, smooth, ripples, a light brown color when perfect i could drink you forever you are a sea i am the sailor you are the house I live in you you are the sky i am a bird for I cannot be separate from you

when tears spill you catch them when people visit, over you we talk when late nights are filled with work you stay by my side oh Tea  __**Sonnet**__-Hallway Deliberations Should I describe the sounds or silence here?  The distractions or the peace and quiet now The tiles below and the tiles above Where students and teachers passed unnoticed

Where the slackers hide and the smart ones learn Where I find sanctuary from it all Where orange, yellow, blue and white surround Just like a portal in a mystery Where something new and different happens

Empty but sometimes filled with raging tides Rooms of learning empty in to the way We pass through them gaining knowledge evermore Being social and making conversation

But why do we seek this sanctuary And why do we hide in such an open place?

====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> My poet is Dylan Thomas. He was born 27 October 1914 and died 9 November 1953. He was Welsh poet who wrote mostly in English. Besides poetry he wrote short stories and for film and radio. He often preformed his work himself at public gatherings and won great acclaim in America for it. ====

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> This poem was written about his dying father, which would probably explain his extreme use of words having to do with death. What he is talking about in the stanza is about death, and not “going towards the light” as a metaphor for entering heaven, or another life. This poem has a pattern of using three types of words in it. He uses workds that have to relate to night and day, some that relate to light and dark, and words that relate to death or sadness. All of these make sense to use in this particular poem, because of that it was written about. They all have meaning behind them, more then just the average word has. The day and night words could mean living and death, or heaven and earth. The light ad dark words also could mean something to do with living and death or heaven and earth, however since "going towards the light" usually has something t do with dying, maybe light or brightness could be the death and the darker words could mean staying on earth, and because it is about nighttime, the darkness could mean the night. The death words obviously have to do with the fact of that his father was dying and he did not want him too. ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A lot of Dylan Thomas poems are about death, dying, or the ending of happiness. However there is not much history about his life that shows he was depressed or a morbid person. In most of his poems he also likes to use themes of words, mostly to do with death but also spinning in strange themes, such as in "Should Lanterns Shine" he begins referencing the Egyptians. ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dylan Thomas is a very interesting a unique poet who's poems have been analysized many times and have different means to different people, I have enjoyed studying him. ====