By: John Viney

It is impossible that you haven’t felt this before

People feel it when they are younger than four   

It’s like warm summer days

Or the sun’s bright rays

It can help you out of the worst times

And makes you feel good no matter the time

It’s the light at the end of a dark tunnel

It’s what makes you chuckle

And on top of that it can light up someones face

Reflection questions:

1) The poem I decided to publish was my emotion poem.

2) I decided to choose this emotion because it is a common emotion that shows up everyday in people’s lives.

3) The tone of my poem is optimistic.

4) The theme of my poem is that joy is the medicine for sadness and anger.

5) Quote 1: The quote “It’s like warm summer days” is a simile that shows it is warm and nice like warm summer days.

Quote 2: “Or the suns bright rays” shows that it is warm like the rays of the sun.

6) Revision 1: In the sixth line of my poem I added “And makes you feel good”. The reason I added this to the sixth line is becuase when I had first written it it only said “No matter the time”. I thought that was too short and didn’t really capture how powerful joy can really be.

Revision 2: I added the line “It’s the light at the end of a dark tunnel” to show that no matter how bad things are going for you it will always turn out good.

7) It was both easy and difficult to write this poem because I knew what I wanted to write about but I struggled to put it into words for a poem.

8) I am very satisfied with my final draft although I do admit it could have been better if I had been able to put what I was thinking into words better, but I feel that struggle will help me in future wrighing projects.