Charles+Norman

__ "A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom." Robert Frost __

__ Ode To My PlayStation __ My Playstation from the day that I got you; I always loved. You with you black smooth body. With your three controllers Blue, Red, and Black. You guys beg me to play you every single day, but I can't. I would love to but teachers give me homework that I have to do. I feel bad that I neglect you so I can do my homework. Just to let you know I would much rather play with you rather than do homework. You look so sad just sitting there not turned on during the weekdays, but have no fear because when the weekend is here. I will play with you until I can't play no more like I always do on the weekends its our time. I will give you all of my attention. When you have all of my attention you look so happy just letting me play you. PS3 I love you are my first child!

__ I was raised by __ I was raised by a family who loves one another Who doesn’t take no crap from a disrespectful child Who discipline their children when they are doing wrong Who praise their children when they are doing right Who plays when its time to play, and is serious when its time to be serious Who works hard everyday for their children Who picks up their checks from work the 1st friday and the 3rd friday of every month Who all take life seriously and are blessed to have each other Who has family meetings every month Who think cooking a big dinner every sunday is a tradition Who believes and god and puts nothing before him Who goes to church on sunday dressing the girls with pretty elegant dresses, and the boys with nice sharp suits Who calls each other daily just to say "Hey how are you doing?" or "What's new with you?" I was raised by a family who love on another.

__ Memory Poem __ It was saturday I woke up excited as I would ever be. Today was they day that I would be playing my last football game as a WIldcat. To top everything off this game is the game of all game it was the League Championship game. I must admit I was worried, I would be playing the Rose Tree Colts. The team that I played my first ever football game against as a wildcat was the team I would be ending it off against. The thing is that first game was a game that I lost by many points So all day I was praying to god and hoping that we would win this game. My team met up at the football field and waited for our bus to arrive. As we waited we had a brief practice. Then the bus came and I realized I was about to be playing in one of my most important games in my life. If we win we are heroes to organization but even better than being heroes is being champions. If we lose we would be known as the team that went undefeated and lost in the champions we would be forgotten and we would have to live with the fact of being losers. Later on that day the game was over and THE GREATER 69TH STREET WILDCATS WERE BERT BELL MEMORIAL CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS. THIS WOULD BE A DAY THAT I’D NEVER FORGET. WE WERE ABLE TO SAY AT THE END OF THE DAY THE “WE WON BABY WE WON!

__ The Eagles Sonnet __ I just love the philadelphia eagles In my eyes they are the greatest team ever Fly Eagles Fly on a road to victory Is what true eagles' fans say each and everyday Oh those birds those birds just make me wanna sing When they score the liberty bell just starts to ring Mike Vick and Desean Jackson always bringing that good action Lets not forget Brent Celek catching those touchdowns Lesean Shady McCoy running so fast like a race car toy Andy Reid got trick plays flea flicker is my fav Trent Cole our sack master is on the D-line Jim Johnson was awesome no one could ever replace him Nope no Super Bowl nope not yet even without one The Philadelphia Eagles are still the best!

__ Riff Poem __

What Did I Say- A quote used by my mother or father.

Mom can I have 5 dollars so I can buy a new toy. No you can not son. Please mom I really want it No boy what did I say If you let me get the toy i will leave you alone What did I say You said no, but I think I can change what you will say The toy is a shinny red fire truck Can I have it What did I say You said no but I really want it Well You know what I said you won't change what I say In the end I will make you remember and I'll say WHAT DID I SAY!

__ Written Analysis __

Poetry is not one of my strong points, and when I found out we had a poetry project I started to panic. Whenever I think of poetry I think of rhyming words, and when I write poetry I get caught up in trying to rhyme and it never works out. So with this project I took a different approach on this project and that was to tell stories in the poetry instead of just focusing on rhyming. I also tried to show emotions and feelings in my poems this time. In my Sonnet poem the story I told was about the Philadelphia Eagles. I showed the emotion of love in the poem, I began the poem by saying: “I just love the Philadelphia Eagles, Before this poetry project I had never heard of a sonnet before, and when I was introduced to it the poetic form was kind of confusing to me. The riff poem was a hard poem for me to write. I had trouble finding someone or something to quote in this poem so I quoted my mom. She always says what did I say after she tells me no, and I ask her for the same thing again. So in my riff poem I wanted to buy a shinny fire truck she told me no multiple times, and after she said no the last time she would say: “WHAT DID I SAY?” Telling stories and showing emotions in poems are both very new to me. It was a piece of cake writing these poems with this very new kind of writing. I barely use rhyming words at all. I tried my best and I hoe you like all of my poems.

__ Artwork Drawing Of A Church __

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22561200/Ode%20To%20My%20Playstation%21.m4a - "Ode To My Playstation!"

__ Langston Hughes is my poet! __

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