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You made faces across the dinner table

I almost spit out my food

You showed me your yugioh cards

and taught me how dual

You cupped your hand over your mouth

when you had something to say

You hid our study books

so that we could just play

We roamed the grocery store as if we were on a safari

hunting for samples and hiding between aisles

We peaked around corners and flashed each other smiles

You told me your crush

or what girl caught your eye

Those days were fun but now your a little shy

Variation of Shakespearean Sonnet

Thanksgiving day is coming soon

a time to join with family and have a feast

We will all meet to eat around noon

and my uncles will watch football and rage of The Beast

Others suggest we go see a priest

But with the cold weather around i only think of June

How fun it would be if a boat was leased

As I gaze out the window to see the fall leaves blow

i smile as i hear the conversation flow

As i turn around my cousin jumps up into my chair

And with a playful smile i tickle her toe

Giggling she climbs down and asks if ill braid her hair

I braid the hair down her back and adorn her with jewels

And just as i finnish the oven dings and my mouth drools

Animal Poem

Koala

my back aches

and the wind tousles my hair

the young ones make racket down below me

disturbing my peace

just me and my bamboo

its all i need

Lion

I take a deep breath and puff my chest out

flex the muscles in my shoulders and feel the power of my legs beneath me

stretching, not a cat but a beast

chin up, i stroll out of my den

gazing upon my territory

I let a roar of satisfaction

You poem

You would make faces at me across the dinner table

making me almost spit out my food

You would show me your yugioh cards

and teach me how dual

You would cup your hand over your mouth

when you had something to say

You would hide our study books

so that we could just play

We roamed the grocery store as if we were on a safari

hunting for samples and hiding between aisles

You would tell me your crush

or what girl had caught your eye

Those days were fun but now your a little shy

Story Poem

Time to Grow up

fists fly

anger rages around them

red contorted faces glaring

the girl sits alone

sitting on a step

perched above the scene

past her bedtime

peering through the stair railing

her little hands clutch the iron poles and her face presses against them

She watches their chests heave in frustration and bodies dance wildly

Sputtering and spitting each other

Their voices crawling up to her spot on the stairs

profane words slither into her soft pink ears

Saying things they will later regret

a veil of innocence is pushed aside

time to grow up

Billy Collins REMAKE

This poem will be about a literal poem like the billy Collins poem i posted earlier.

dancing across the page

the pen full of ideas

dancing faster and faster with the sudden burst of thoughts

a hand sweeps across the page

admiring eyes take in work

from one hand to another its given to the world

sometimes she was gentle

cooing over the lines

other times she was harsh

ripping the seams

taking out all the meaning it once had inside

"as i write I create myself again and again"-Joy Harjo

I think im a willow

Seemingly sad at times but peaceful and comforting over all

Then the wind comes

it comes fast and cold

my long fluid branches rattle

and thrash around in the wind

the rain comes

the assault is over

i am really a birch

small and bare

thin trunk

stabilized on either side with chains wrapped around me and nailed to the side

in hope that one day i will grow to be big and branchy

A poem i like

Introduction to Poetry

Billy Collins

I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.

But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.

I love this poem because of the truth and creativity in it. The way the author describes people analyzing the poem is very cool and i like that new perspective. The whole poem gives a new perspective of poetry.

nothing drought horror blanket

upon the fields we gazed

the vast stretch of land

dried up with the drought

tall grasses deadened

I walk to the fields

the dry lifeless plants crunch under my feet

I look back at the house i once new

turned around and with a indifferent expression proceeded on my journey.

It had been left out from my younger sisters birthday party

Last week our parents threw her a party in the backyard

Refusing to go anywhere without it

she dragged that pale blue blanket around the whole time

when the clown finally arrived she had dropped it and ran over to see his tricks

now weeks later it sits out there now

covered in dew and gnats

a sickening odor of old milk protruding from it

I pick it up

its heavy and soaking wet

the cheap polyester is hardened and rough

I take a deep breath

do my best to hold it with two fingers

and make my way to the laundry room

Poem game

Anger

it doesn't regulate

I enumerate,

suffering, broken inside me

It yanks fury instilled within me

I pretend to be tolerably indiffrent

but it deems a strange affect upon me

torment clearly within

Happiness

She was practically skipping

Delicate ladybugs communicated colloquial sayings

Dragonflies fabricated myths

She was adrift in a panorama of pretend.

Confusion

Slender curves meant for me

broken for the price of discrimination

my indifference torments whatever it doesn't victimize.

is it that simple

Poems

1st: She deemed the voyage sordid

The deadpanned crew, tormented by the autonomy of the voyage

Utilizing the paradox of being adrift with the tempestuous sea

he assured her , enumerating reasons with his vulgar astonishment

Her delicate slender mouth instilled in fury.

poem #2

The faithful queen, blinded by summertime sparks. Mystique imperfections, dust upon her angelic face. Passion's glaring voice, mysterious visions censor fellowship.

Invisible metamorphosis visions under a wondrous willow