The Exquisite Ballroom Poem

    The Exquisite Ballroom 

The exquisite ballroom? 

I went to visit this ballroom one day.

It was exquisite like the heart of a wild rose.

Everything in the room was beautiful. 

Once I walked into the ballroom everything glistened

The chandeliers, everything that was either 

Silver shiny and or gold shiny.

The chandeliers were like big shiny diamonds.

Looking at the chandeliers it's like their

 singing to you when they dangle.

The beautiful scenery.

The chairs called my name to come sit.

I will never forget the day 

I walked into that exquisite ballroom.

Oh what I experienced walking 

into that ballroom.

Alliteration: Silver shiny.

Personification: The chairs called my name to come sit.

Simile: It was exquisite like the heart of a wild rose.; The chandeliers were like big shiny diamonds. 

Sonnet 18 Rewrite Assignment

1. Shall I compare thee to a school? (A)
2. Thou art more students  and more books : (B)
3. Rough teachers do shake the happiness of a pool, (A)
4. And most poeople hath all too short a the looks : (B)
5. I write my notes with a pen.  (C)
6. I do most of my homework with a pencil.  (D)
7. I remember my birthday when I turned ten.  (C)
8. I'm always using different utensils. (D)
9. I color with a crayon.  (E)
10. My parents say I'm always on the phone.  (F)
11.  I love to play on. (E)
12. A lot of people say they like my skin tone.  (F)
13. Their are a lot of papers in my folder.  (G)
14. I can't wait till I get older.  (G)

Concrete Poetry Sonnet 18

Shall 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 dimm'd; 
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When 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. 

MLA citation for Sonnet 18:
 Shakespeare, William, and Bert Voeten. Sonnet XVIII. Woubrugge: Avalon Pers, 1986. Print.

Dictionary Poem: Effusive

Effusive

POS: adjective

          The pouring forth emotionally, overflowing with emotion. 

As in: On my aunts wedding day, she was
very effusive, and could not stop crying and
after a while when she realized she kept crying
she started laughing. 

As in: I know a lot of people who
aren`t very effusive, they  have
a hard time expressing their
feelings to others.

As in: My mom and aunt are so
effusive at funerals and weddings.
No matter who it is they are
overflowing with emotion.

As in: My brother-in-law is in the army
and everytime he comes back everybody
is so effusive because were so proud of him
so our emotions overflow.

Onomatopoeia: the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.

Example: crying.

Edutopia Haikus

"Five Reasons Why We Need Poetry in Schools" 

1) Poetry Helps Us 
 
           Helps us know each other
          Help us build communnity
                 Using metaphor.


2) Rhythnm and Sounds
           
            They`ll feel the rhythnms
    Rhythnm, music, sounds and beats
             The words or meaning.


3) Speaking and Listening

               Venues for speaking
            Poetry brings audience
               Neglected domains.

4) Poetry is Universal
         
               Poems defy rules
        Ways of espressing poems
    Help them bridge their worlds.

5) Poetry Builds

                Resililence in kids
     Find poems that make you wake up
                We can gain insight.
         


                      MLA citation: Aguilar, Elena. "Five Reasons Why We Need Poetry in Schools." Edutopia. N.p., 08 Apr. 2013. Web. 20 Apr. 2016.

Ode to Music

-Ode poetry: an ode is form of lyric poetry expressing emotion and its usually addressed to someone or something.


O music, I do appreciate thee*
Gives a soul to the universe like wings to the mind
Always there to help me escape from the reality I live in
I will always appreciate thee

O music, I do appreciate thee
Flight to the imagination as life to everything
Some speak the truth and others are just noise
I will always appreciate thee

O music, I do appreciate thee
Where words fail, music speaks
I wouldn`t go a day without listening to music
 I will always appreciate thee

O music, I do appreciate thee
I feel Im escaping when listening to you
I hear words that mean a lot to me not just the lyrics
I will always appreciate thee

O music, I do apprecaiet thee
FREEDOM FREEDOM when listening to inspirational music
Music is my escape
I will always appreciate thee


Repetition: Freedom Freedom.

Simile: Gives a soul to the universe like wings to the mind.

Metaphor: Music is my escape.

Alliteration: Some speak, Where word.