Mohamed+Marzouk

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ~Leonard Cohen

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11146321/Poems%20jawnn.m4a

****ODE TO MY TOLIET**** Oh, i love theee. It has taken bullets from me. When i'm in pain It makes me feel better It might be smelly at the end of the day But, that's what my moms for, right? No, i'm just kidding. The toilet is a place where you can just forget about your problems And, just make yourself feel so much better. But, the best part is, it listens. I really frickin' love my toilet.

=Riff= with-Naomi shihab nye

Music lives inside my legs Music travels everywhere in my body Music flows through the soul Music helps my breath Music helps me leave Music helps me relax Music helps me forget everything that's wrong with my life Music can help me get up and dance Music can whip the tears from my cheeks Music can be the person that takes my hand and makes me run faster When, i'm done

Walt Whitman is my poet. I chose him because, when i saw Walt Whitman i think of the bridge, and the bridge is right here, so why not?

=**I was raised by**= My mom who liked me a lot My dad My uncle My Grandmom I was raised by the smell of my moms cooking I was raised by my dads stupid words I was raised by my uncles stupid jokes I was raised by love. I was raised by music I was raised by hope I was raised by those people who died to keep me safe I was raised by the people who told me i could do anything I was raised by the people who told me never to give up I was raised by people, who truly knew the meaning of love, and taught me too.

=My sonnet= My phone is what keeps my sane It gets me away from my house it brings me closer to the friends i love it lets me enjoy different things it lets me discover the world it lets me go to parties it lets me go to hang outs it lets me meet new people my phone is the thing that keeps me sane.

Self-Poetry Analysis
Poetry helps me express myself. I have a hard time expressing my life a lot. It's not that i'm shy, it's because i'm shy or don't like to talk, it's because, well, i don't really know. Poetry helps me express what i'm feeling, though i don't write a lot, when i do, it helps me express myself and what i'm feeling. It's the ultimate stress relief for me, and that's why i love it! In my work i just use basic things, like in my sonnet i start off talking about my phone, but get into deeper issues with my life like how i hate my family and want to spend as little as i possibly can in my house. Or, in my ode it's about my toilet, but it's about how stressed i have been and how simple things can help me get through life without killing anyone.

=Descriptive Study of a Poet: Walt Whitman = Walt Whitman's poems are like watching some revolution movie. It has a lot of that stuff, his work in my eye's is very repetitive, and dark. A lot of it was very dark, and about the hard, long and painful times of the revolution of the United States, well back then they were called the colonies. There was no extreme way he wrote his poems, they were all the same, in the same format a lot of other poems. His bleek way of describing the times of the revolution is what he's famous for, but it's amazing to see the difference in his poems, one can be very bright and talk about how America is winning but one could be very dark and talk about how America is going through hardship and death. Poems about people's hard times, and poems about peoples bright times. All and all Walk Whitman is famous for his inspirational poems about bleek times. He will truly be known as a patriot.