Beauty

By Emily Franks

I am not beautiful.

So don’t waste your time to convince me that

I’m a beautiful person.

There are so many details that I hate about myself,

And I will not lie and tell myself by saying

That there is beauty within me.

Rest assured, I will tell myself every chance I get

That my demons are eating me alive.

That I’m an awful, ugly, worthless person,

And nothing you can ever say will make me believe

I still deserve love and respect.

Because no matter what,

I am not worthy to receive love.

And I’m in no way or position to believe that

Beauty lives within my soul.

Because every time I glance into the mirror I say to myself,

Am I truly as hideous as people tell me?

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1)I published an inspired by poem.

2)My source of inspiration was my inability to see myself as beautiful before, and how I am beginning to grow as a person and see myself as beautiful how I am.

3)The tone of my poem is uplifting.

4)The theme of my poem is how you are beautiful just as you are and you should see yourself as beautiful as you really are.

5) “Beauty lives within my soul.” This is an example of personification. This contributes to the theme development by saying in a different way that we all have beauty. Another example of figurative language is “my demons are eating me alive” which is a metaphor. This contributes to the theme development by how at first you find yourself so awful and how you just can’t take it anymore and after you can’t even recognize the demons you don’t even have.

6) One revision I made was changing “ugly” to “hideous” to enhance the language and to make it more connotative. Another revision I made to my poem was to change “get” to “receive” to make it a higher level of vocabulary and to make it more connotative.

7) This poem was somewhere in the middle of easy and difficult because the topic of hating yourself is something I struggle with on a daily basis. It was difficult because of the structure of poem I wrote. Having the sentences work both ways and for them to have opposite meanings.

8) I am very satisfied with my final draft because of the structure of the poem I wrote was not easy and I am very proud I managed to do it. I also believe that lots of people will be able to relate to my poem.

Ode to Black Panther

I watched you

You consumed the heart shaped herb.

Now you possess enhanced speed, strength, and panther senses.

King T’Challa they call you as the defender of

Wakanda.

Your gratified father is up there watching you

And is very proud of you like your mother is.

Fighting alongside The Avengers,

Earth’s mightiest heroes.

I know you are the strongest among them all

With your vibranium tech suit made from your sister

Shuri,

A female Einstein but better.

Absorbing any sort of kinetic energy like it was nothing from the suit for redistribution,

An unstoppable force you are.

The only and best

Crime fighting panther.

Not just in combat magnificently,

But also a great leader.

Eventually becoming the leader of the avengers soon just like how Tony Stark and Steve Rogers were.

There have been many Black Panthers, but none of them have been as strong and fast as you.

Lastly,

Wakanda Forever!

Poetry Publication Reflection

1. The poem I published was an Ode.
2. I chose the subject as Black Panther because I praise him a lot when watching and I’m just a big fan.
3. The tone of my poem is very supportive and astonishing of Black Panther.
4. The theme of my poem is don’t judge people by their looks, but their attitude, leadership, and attributes.
5. Two examples of figurative language in this poem are, “with your vibranium tech suit made from your sister Shuri, a female Einstein, but a lot better. This an example of a metaphor and it contributes to the tone and theme by saying that his sister Shuri made his astonishing and wonderful suit, but doesn’t look very smart, but it’s about what’s inside of her mind. Another example of figurative language in this poem is, “There have been many Black Panthers, but none of them have been as strong and fast as you. This is an example of a simile and it contributes to the tone and theme because it is very wonderful how he is the best of them all.
6. Revision #1: I changed great to enhanced. The reason for this revision because I felt like it was very bland when I just used great and I needed to spice things up a bit. Revision #2 I changed exploded energy into redistribution because I feel like this word has more description of how the vibranium suit works.
7. It was very easy to write this poem because I know a lot about the history and specs of Black Panther.
8. I am very satisfied with my final draft because I thought it flowed very well and it was very easy for me to edit and revise to make it great.

                    Ode to Black Panther

I watched you

You consumed the heart shaped herb.

Now you possess enhanced speed, strength, and panther senses.

King T’Challa they call you as the defender of

Wakanda.

Your gratified father is up there watching you

And is very proud of you like your mother is.

Fighting alongside The Avengers,

Earth’s mightiest heroes.

I know you are the strongest among them all

With your vibranium tech suit made from your sister

Shuri,

A female Einstein but better.

Absorbing any sort of kinetic energy like it was nothing from the suit for redistribution,

An unstoppable force you are.

The only and best

Crime fighting panther.

Not just in combat magnificently,

But also a great leader.

Eventually becoming the leader of the avengers soon just like how Tony Stark and Steve Rogers were.

There have been many Black Panthers, but none of them have been as strong and fast as you.

Lastly,

Wakanda Forever!

Poetry Publication Reflection

1. The poem I published was an Ode.
2. I chose the subject as Black Panther because I praise him a lot when watching and I’m just a big fan.
3. The tone of my poem is very supportive and astonishing of Black Panther.
4. The theme of my poem is don’t judge people by their looks, but their attitude, leadership, and attributes.
5. Two examples of figurative language in this poem are, “with your vibranium tech suit made from your sister Shuri, a female Einstein, but a lot better. This an example of a metaphor and it contributes to the tone and theme by saying that his sister Shuri made his astonishing and wonderful suit, but doesn’t look very smart, but it’s about what’s inside of her mind. Another example of figurative language in this poem is, “There have been many Black Panthers, but none of them have been as strong and fast as you. This is an example of a simile and it contributes to the tone and theme because it is very wonderful how he is the best of them all.
6. Revision #1: I changed great to enhanced. The reason for this revision because I felt like it was very bland when I just used great and I needed to spice things up a bit. Revision #2 I changed exploded energy into redistribution because I feel like this word has more description of how the vibranium suit works.
7. It was very easy to write this poem because I know a lot about the history and specs of Black Panther.
8. I am very satisfied with my final draft because I thought it flowed very well and it was very easy for me to edit and revise to make it great.

Ode to Basketball

By Adam Clark

Swish!

It’s the sound of the net

After the ball goes through

It’s a sweet feeling

Nothing else can give you

It’s a weird sensation

When you break someone’s ankles

It’s a weird realization

Realizing that you are connected to a sport

Becoming a ball on a string

Practicing is like an addiction

The strive to get better

Is like a bear wanting honey

Making shots never gets old

The drive to get better never dies like a tortoise

And one person can never become perfect

Each day you can learn a new skill

Like adding another floor onto a skyscraper

Going to the park

And playing with friends

Is what I like to do on my weekends

When I think about doing something instead

The decision never quite makes sense

And you don’t have to be good

To have fun on the court

Because the sport is mostly for fun

Unless you are Kris Dunn

Then you have to be number one

When being the best is like finding a needle in a pile of hay

1. I typed and published an ode.

2. I chose basketball as my subject because it is something I care about a lot, therefore I thought it would be easy to write a meaningful piece about it.

3. The tone of my poem is enthusiastic.

4. The theme of my poem is working hard to be good at something is worth it because the positive benefit are worth the grind

5. Becoming a ball on a string is a metaphor, and it contributes to this poem because it properly illustrates how you can become attached to something and enjoy it. My second use of figurative language is “is like adding another floor onto a skyscraper”. This sentence shows how adding another skill can make you taller and taller, when the sky is the limit, you want to have as many floors(skills) as possible.

6. Revision #1 was I added the line “When being the best is like finding a needle in a pile of hay” because I wanted to add more detail on how hard it is to get to the top of the basketball world, because that is not an easy thing to do. Revision #2 was changing the word feeling into the word sensation in line six, because I didn’t want to give a sense of repititon in that part of the poem.

7. I thought it was very easy to write my poem, becasue I had a lot of background knowledge in the topic. I also care a lot about the sport, which gives inspiration when I write.

8. I am definitely satifised with my final draft, this might be the best poem I have ever written. I am not usually not known as a poet, and this was a step out of my comfort zone. This helped me learn that I can write a succesful poem.