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 * My poet's name is Audre Lorde. **

Six Flags
Oh na na  What's my name  Was the song that was playing on the radio.  Cruisin' down the highway.  It was as smooth as a baby's bottom.

The sound of screaming and laughter. Racing through my eardrums. Ahhhh ! "Here we go." The excitement. The roar of voices.  The butterflies flapping in my stomach.  The wind blowing in my face.  The wonderful roller coasters.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Pop, pop, pop, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Was the popcorns I can smell the butter everywhere I went. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Pop, pop, pop. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Big funnel cakes everywhere I looked. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> As you eat the funnel cake, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> The soft dough flavor melts into your mouth with a hint of powder. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Giving you that nice taste bud in your mouth. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> But it's just that time. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> It was just that night. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I had to leave. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Good bye Six Flags. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> See you next year.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Ode to Music
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">(Ode)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Headphones in and <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Mind zipped up into one. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I wanna fly away, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> So high, so high. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I wanna be with you. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> You'll make it all brand new, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Just me and you. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> You're my sweet escape. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I wanna run away. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> A beautiful melody. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Music takes me to a fantasy. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Somewhere positive <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Somewhere drama free <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Somewhere outside this earth.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> We need to take it back in time, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> When music made us all unite. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> At times I just wanna take off <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> And fly into the real and take the fake off. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Take a good look around, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Everything is all gone. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I wanna go to a world <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> With no fear, no tear. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I try day and day to maintain the same, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> But the pain is too much. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Place me near you, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Let me hide away.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Mend to A Broken Heart
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">(A line stolen from another poet)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"You're the reason I believe in love."- Ashlei Dankenbring <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Say what you need to say. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> But you don't know what love means. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> You never took the time to know me. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> You never took the time to understand. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Loving you was all I ever had. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I don't think you'll understand my pain, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> How can I explain? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> You broke my heart. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Tore it into a million pieces. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> No more glistening <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Just a broken heart to mend. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> You told me when times get dark, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> You'll be my sun. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I guess I just gotta forget it <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Cause your heart is just that pathetic. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> No relationship is perfect <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> All this time, I thought I was worth it.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Now you're ready to leave <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> You're the air that I breathe. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I guess I'm living in the past <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> And it's time to move on. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I never knew someone like you. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I never felt the way I do. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> If I'm not with you, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Then I'm out of place. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> You make my heart beat, race. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Love is a planet and we orbit around it. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I'm lost in love, space, and time. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Not only that, but I'm lost in your mind. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Let me pull you closer <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Like I had my own gravity. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Tell me you're here to stay <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> And we'll grow old together. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Tell me you'll be here when things get tense. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> You're the reason I believe in love. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Tell me anything. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Just don't tell me goodbye.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Raised by Parents
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">(Raised By)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">A woman that stood strong, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> with power and passion <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> living life with no regrets. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Sleek black hair flowing down her back. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Eyes shaped like almonds. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Lend a hand to others whenever they needed help. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Putting others before her. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Working day and night <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> In order to support her family. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> This woman, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Is who I call my mom.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> He who created me, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Became a part of my life. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> For as long as I'm living, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I still have to give him respect, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Even though he hurt me. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> He touched me. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Where I wasn't supposed to be touch. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Drugs got him on a different state of mind. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Every morning I wake up, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I acted like everything will be alright. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I said, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Every morning I wake up, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I acted like everything will be alright. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Tears flowing down my face, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Hands hovering over my eyes, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I can't seem to see anything <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> But black. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> This man, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Is who I call my dad.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">I Will Not Photoshop the Truth.
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">(Random Poem)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">I will not photoshop the truth. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I will not resize the truth for the purpose of fittening your frame. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I will not resize or rotate or flip it so when you first hear it <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> It feels less offensive. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I believe scars are lessons learn so I will not fix any blemishes.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Oh he touched me. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> And then he touched me again <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> While he was supposed to be watching me. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I didn't know what state of mind I was in. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> What I did know was that I was about 7 going on 8 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> When I didn't have the opportunity to make a state. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I went from learning my A, B, C's to 3 way conversation with birds and bees. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Child life is no longer as easy as it seems. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> But I wanted to know why. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I was looking <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I was searching for a sign <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I was a small child making regrets for oral sex <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Not because I liked it, but because it hurt less. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Why was this happening to me?

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> What God lets a child get raped? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Let me tell you a revelation. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> The same God who sent his son down to earth and died for our sins. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> But his ways are not our ways <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> And his thought are not our thoughts.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> My heart was beating out of my chest. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> And the tears began to roll down my eyes. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I smile like nothing happen. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Why? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Because Satan is a deceiver <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> The one who gives false impression <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Making me think that I've done something wrong <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Because why else my father would do that to me. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> The wound was infected and started to spread to every area of my life. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> All because of one night.

You're the One Who Holds My Heart
(Sonnet)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The clock is ticking but no time to talk <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I don't know where to start so what do I do <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> My red heart never wants to make that walk <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I don't know how I can get it through with you <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> We've been through some tough times <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> You're ripping it apart, makes me look like a fool <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I don't want to think hard but you're a slime <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> What you did to me was not something cool <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I'm responsible for your own action <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Sometimes, it's never too late to give get a new fresh start <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> You don't seem to give me satisfaction <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> But as we grow older, we fall apart <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> You've said some things and yes, that just kills me <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> You're the one who holds my heart, can't you see

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Analysis on my poem;
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Throughout the quarter, we've been studying a lot of different poetries. Some has a lot of repetitions, similes, metaphors, repetitions, a lot of different figurative language. I use a lot of commas and periods in my poem. It usually ends with those punctuation marks. I use repetition throughout my first poem "Six Flags." With that poem, I wanted to use as much imagery as I can because this poem is about a theme park. Some people might not go to the theme park as often as I do so I want them to gain that experience with me through their imagination.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I've noticed that the lengths of my poems are based on how I feel. For example, if it's something funny or adventurous, my poems would be really short. But if it deals with something serious happening in my life, it's usually really long. It's only because I can actually put down all my thoughts down on paper. The poem usually tells a story. I'm pretty sure every poet has a story to tell, but mine mainly focuses on the reality and religion. A great example of this type of poem is the "I will not Photoshop the truth." In the third stanza, I talk about my God, which is Jesus Christ. Everyone on this earth questions the things that are happening to him or her. But my pastor once told me that God is just testing your faith. God will not give you something that you cannot handle or be able to get the job done. In some cases, some people have harder lives than others. It's not fair, but God knows that THAT person is responsible enough to get the job done. Think of it like this. If you had to choose between a person who is hard working and a person who is not, you would choose the hard worker, right? Why would you hire a person for your company if they were not going to get the job done? You have things to do so you want to get the job done so that you can move on to the next step. Also, in that poem, I talk about how my life was when I was 7 years old. That counts as in a reality because it happened to someone in real life. In all reality, when something tragic like that happens, you can’t do anything about it. All you can do is learn from it and move on. That goes out to every situation. Well, you can get help, but I feel as though that YOU can only help YOURSELF.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> As you read through my poems, you begin to pick up the things that were happening in my life. The gates to my life are slowly beginning to open up and reveal the truth. I want to say that within the five poems that I’ve wrote, about four of them deals with pain. My heart and soul were poured onto these poems because writing is my only way to let go of all my feelings.

Detail Poet;
For this assignment, I wanted a poet who is unfamiliar to people and someone I could relate to because I feel as though that if you can connect with the writing then it gives you a better understanding. I was looking and searching but I wasn’t able to find the perfect person. And then I came across Audre Lorde. I decided to study her. She was born on February 18, 1934. She was raised in Manhattan, New York and attended a catholic school. She was the youngest of three sisters. In 1962, she married a guy name Edward Rollins. She had two children with him, a girl and a boy. Eight years later, she divorced her husband. Audre Lorde's poem, it seems to me as if all her poems talk about her life. She seems like a very strong woman. She was able to express outrage but she was capable of getting her poems published in a magazine. For example, her first poem appeared in Seventeen Magazines while she was still in High School. Although it was hard for her because her teachers felt as though that her poems are too romantic, but she didn't give up. One of the poems that really struck me was "Who Said It Was Simple." The reason why this struck me a lot is because it looks like she has so much anger building inside of her system. When I was researching about her background, I've found out that she had a lot of problems dealing with her family at home, racism, her sexuality, etc. In this poem, she uses things on earth to represent her life. "There are so many roots to the tree of anger that sometimes the branches shatter before they bear." Once I read that first line, I thought it was so powerful because it's basically saying that there's so much a person can take before they explode. The tree signifies strong people but at one point, it will break because of natural disasters or whatever. In her other poems, she uses unexpected metaphors. She uses a lot of metaphors comparing things in the world with her eyes. Not only that, but she uses repetitions. I would have never thought that punctuation really sets the poems. But in her poems, I’ve noticed that she uses only one punctuation mark after every stanza. Whenever I read other poems from other poets, they usually have a comma after a sentence and then a period after the next sentence. And it would be repetitive. Her poems are very detailed. She makes me feel like I’m right there at the event as I’m reading. And that’s a great thing because I’m more of a visual person and it helps me understand the poem a little better. One of my favorite poems by her is the “Inheritance.” The reason why is because her story relates to me except it was my dad who left my family, not my mom. She’s going her life without knowing who her mom is as a person, but yet, she still resembles her somehow. That’s how I feel about my father. She abandoned me when I was a child, but I still have some characteristics that are the same as his. In conclusion, her poems were so powerful towards people because back in the days, there were so many issues but no one was strong enough to talk about it, but she did. And she has my respect for that.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">I will not Photoshop the Truth Audio:
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