Maria+Latorre

// Intro: //

// In my poems I had all types of emotions mixed in them. My fist poem is about something that happens long ago I was one of my most fund memories though I can’t remember so of it because I was really young. It was a funny memory because my brother really had a fight with a wall and a car. The words I had picked want to good with what I wanted to tell. Then my second poem is an ode to something that I had wish to pick and I picked a shadow because I though of something that was true to me and a shadow is something. This is because I use to be a shadow of myself. My found poem is what happens all around me it’s funny what you hear because when you think of it you hear so many different things everyday. My “I grow up knowing” I got the idea from a poem we read “I was raised by” was the name. I really like that poem a lot. Then the last poem I had to pick a line from a poet and the line was “oh pray that what we want is worth this running” It end out being more like a love poem and I liked it a lot. Just like all my other poems. //

1. "Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing." -William Stanley Merwin

__2. memory poem:__ I remember this vaguely I remember a story of my brother that ran into walls I remember the fun I had And I remember the name of the island It's called "Isla Margarita" This island that had a lot of trees The nice ice cold water And the warmth of the morning sun I remember when my mom woke me to a new day I get myself out of bed she made me the food that the world craves When I would eat the food it felt as if my mouth was melting in flavors Then it's that time That time that time that time SWIMMING TIME Yes it's that time were I get into a swimming suit I see the pool as it calls my name I can't wait when the floaty I just ran into the pool there I was in the pool some tried to hold me back But I was to fast so soon I was in a very deep end I got to swim and it was just so fun.

__memory poem #2:__ I remember this vaguely I remember a fight then ended bad Not any normal fight It was a fight between a boy and a wall The wall took revenge on him There he stood When he got home mother and father Ask what happen? He had said a wall has gotten me bad A little girl that thought it was funny giggled as her father clean her brother's wounds. I remember the fun that little girl had And I remember the name of the island That her brother fought with a wall It's called "Isla Margarita" The island that was consumed by trees The Ice Cold Water That would slamed on the shore The radiance of the sun's rays in the morning I remember being woken to a new day Like a bird I woke calling For my mother There she was picking me up from the bed Then she put me on the chair She started cooking The smell would hit your nose She made me the food that the world craves When I would eat the food it felt as if my mouth was melting in flavors Then it's that time That time that time that time SWIMMING TIME Yes it's that time were I get into a swimming suit I see the pool as it calls my name I can't wait when the floaty I just ran into the pool there I was in the pool some tried to hold me back But I was to fast so soon I was in a very deep end I got to swim and it was just so fun.

__3. Ode my shadow:__

There it stand's watching the shadow that fallows with out knowing it watches as they are run around with pain in it poor little shadow that can never be as happy but they feel something too we step over them and we spit on their faces the poor little shadow.

Though sometime those shadows stand up stronger then before not afraid to show it's self there it stands with a smile on it's face now not fallowing but leading the way the little shadow grow it's no longer sad but it's not always happy the poor little shadow tries and tries until one day we see it but better then spiting on it  we help help it find something that has been lost.

Yes, lost from our minds lost from our hearts yet now is when we see it the shadow was there trying to help us find ourself it didn't need our help it just need us too see see that we have lost our true self but know that we see it smiles every day and it's no longer a shadow but our true self.

This was all thanks to you little shadow no longer poor but cheerful no longer sad but happy thank you little shadow for showing us who we really are.

__4. Found poem: What happens around me.__

My math class is like 1+1 but the homework is more like 1sqrtes to the second power multiplied by an impassable number plus 5.

I need to study it vary hard

What are you doing what are you doing Stop

I’m going to be a cat with cat ears and cattail

What is my history? Why should I care?

Is Lucifer really bad or just missed judged

I missed a retake OH NO

Boys don’t need cake

Strangest dream I had last night

I woke up crying

I’m so assume

__ 5. "I grow up knowing" __

I grow up knowing that life is not always easy

That you have to go through hell better anything can change

That you need to fight for your right

“Go have fun and don’t be such a old head”

Kind of Woman

Not controlled by a man

Free to fly

Swore so high

Not afraid to fall cuz I can pick myself up

“You sure are crazy doing what you do”

Sorta Woman

Some big diva

Strong high-class talk

But not so high-class

“You think your cool cuz you got yourself some money”

Type of Woman

Pride bigger then an elephant

Strait from the hood

Willing to fight till the end

No two face wana be

“You’re you and you show it girl”

Type of Sister

Not no pump ass you think you’re all that

To good for any type of man

Hard working

“No stopping you when you got your mind set on something”

Sort of Woman

Some high school girl

Mind set on being higher then others

No falling back

“You better beware or she’ll attack”

No sad unhappy girl

With no self-esteem

Head up high

Never looking back

More stubborn then a mule

“You are just to stubborn to fight with”

Type of Queen

I grow up know that we are stronger then male

Cuz

We

Are

Woman.

6. A riff poem (with a line from Lucille Clifton's poem.)

"oh pray that what we want is worth this running," worth you fight through worth your tears worth you love. But why? WHY DO you run what is the reason Reason? maybe maybe maybe it's for love but is it really worth running for YES It is to have someone that is there for you to not be all alone to be with someone that loves you wipes your tears away someone to fight through things someone worth running for.

**// 7. //** An image poem

**// 8. Aeschylus //**

My poet is called Aeschylus he was born 525/524 BC and died 456/455 BC in the city of Eleusis. When Aeschylus first began writing, the theatre had only just begun to evolve. Plays were little more than animated oratorios or choral poetry supplemented with expressive dance. Many of his poems that are well know is about war and about Greek gods.

9) A piece of artwork

10) An audio of "A Riff poem" media type="file" key="A riff poem.mp3" width="240" height="20"