By: Trisha Kamdar

“BANG” goes the gun shot right at the student as I’m headed home

The antagonist says “freeze”, and I stopped in my tracks

and felt something in the pit of my stomach

My teacher stood right in front of me

As the bullet is headed out from the gun

Blood is everywhere as if fruit punch spilled out of the bowl

“BANG” BANG” “BANG”

I go inside the classroom and the door locks

I tell everyone to calm down

I text my mom and told her what happened

My friend calls the police

I thought my life was over

Everyone was shot and dead and there was no help

25 other kids and I were just sitting, hiding in the closet, and crying as if we were at a funeral

I hear my mother walking into the room and waking me up

I ask her “Can I please stay at home today”

She gives me a hug and wipes away my tears as if knowing what had happened

Her sweet morning voice says “Yes” “Yes you may”

I sit on my bed pondering “Why”, “Why does it have to be like this”

1. I wrote a Inspired By poem
2. My source of my inspiration was an issue that has been revolving around this world for very long time. I choose to write about school gun violence because I wanted to show my feelings for this topic and how I don’t appreciate this.
3. The word I chose for tone is melancholy
4. The theme of my poem is “Shooting is not the way to show violence.”
5. “25 other kids and I were just sitting, hiding in the closet, and crying as if we were at a funeral” This type of figurative language is a simile. This contributes to the tone and theme because it shows the sadness and how frightened the kids are.

    “BANG” This type of figurative is a onomatopoeia. This contributes to the tone and theme because it shows how gun shots sound and how frightening it is.

6. Revision #1: I added in figurative language like, “Blood is everywhere as if fruit punch spilled out of the bowl”

       Revision #2: Instead of using the word wondering I used Pondering.

7. It was easy to write this poem because since I was writing a Inspired By I thought about issues around the world, and school gun violence was a issue.
8. I am satisfied with my final draft because my poem makes sense after editing and revising it.

By Isabel Layman

The trickster

Brother of Thor Odinson

Adopted

Brinigs chaos

To every planet

Like a newborn

Left alone

Or a nightmarish

Snowstorm

The God of Mischief

Determined

Never stops

Until he’s free of the reins

Keeping him held back

Like and animal

Always creating touble

Just wanting to be

An equal

Born on another planet

Jotunheim

World of the giants

Cold and dark

An outcast

Like a new kid

Or the kids in the less popular clubs

Misinterpreted

Only ever desired

To be king

And ruler

In charge

As in a dictator

But as of now

He’s gone

Never got

What he wanted

The outsider

Trying so hard

To be something special

Only to

Bequeath

The universe

To death

1. I wrote an ode
2. I chose this subject for my ode because I love Loki and his story.
3. The tone of my poem is melancholy.
4. The theme of my poem is that people trying to be something special can try so hard just to fail in the end.
5. “Brings chaos to every planet like a newborn left alone”. This type of figurative language is a simile. It contributes to the tone and theme by showing that Loki brings a great amount of trouble wherever he goes.
6. “An outcast, like a new kid”. This is also a simile. It contributes by showing that Loki is different like a new kid at a new school.
7. Writing this poem was fairly easy because I know a lot about him and I liked writing about him because he is one of my favorite marvel characters.
8. I am pretty satisfied with my final draft because I feel is showcased my best work and I tried my hardest to have good elevated word choices.

By: Joshua Kwan

Thud,Thud,Thud

Hearts beat away

Sounds of leaves crackling at night spread your mind apart.

It is a faceless devil with no soul or heart.

It’s like a monster in a closet at night.

Running out of the situation makes you feel alright.

It growls at people at the dark of night.

Fear cures hiccups with the sound of rushing scares.

The sounds of fear can even scare a full grown bear.

A figure arises out of the dark, it chases kids into a chain of hugs.

It forces buckets of hands to reach for a small switch.

Snap,Snap,Snap The crunches grow closer.

Fear is the worst part of every child’s dream.

1.I chose to publish my emotion poem I wrote.

2a. I chose this emotion because I wanted to bring up kids fears to help them overcome them.

3.The tone of my poem is Fear.

4. The theme of my poem is Fear causes many terrifying thoughts in your mind.

5.A.”It’s like a monster in a closet at night” B.It is a simile. C. It shows how most kids are scared of monsters in their closets and that causes fear.

2A.”It growls at people at the dark of night” 2B.It is a example of personification. 2C. It helps strengthen the thought of being scared at night all alone outside.

6. Revision 1- I changed creeps to arises on the 10th line because it helped me imagine it more realistically and it sounded more clearer. Revision 2- I replaced breaking to crackling on the 3rd line because it helps when you imagine someone with leaves breaking in the woods.

7.It was kind of easy because it just flew out of my brain to write about things that relate to fear, but it was difficult finding sensory details to match the words I used.

8.I am satisfied with my final draft because I went over my poem over and over and read it to myself to find any errors if there was any.

By: Michael Corej

It’s cold, it’s dark, it’s all alone,

your mind, blank, slowly going,

it is laughing all day.

Time, taste, touch, smell, sight lost, none found.

It’s like an endless void, that you can’t escape,

leaving you the one alone.

You are lost, but not afraid, all you leave is dust and decay.

It is solitary confinement, life’s lost purpose,

but you still live on.

It makes you feel nothing at all, lost emotions, no family, no friends.

You see someone lying on a bench, peacefully.

You’ll never find peace, anymore, anywhere.

Later passing by a TV store, you see

on the news, someone has died.

That person was lying on a bench.

You wonder who, with blood on your hands.

You have been driven INSANE, far gone.

Tick, Tock, Tick,Tock.

The mouse ran up the clock.

The clock struck one,

The day was done, and you have had your fun.

1.I decided to publish my Emotion poem.

2.I chose the emotion of Insanity because I am able to describe this emotion better than some others that I’ve read before.

3.The tone of my poem is Insanity.

4.The theme of my poem is that Insanity can cause you to do things that you don’t want to do and feel things you don’t want to feel.

5a.”It’s like an endless void, that you can’t escape.” This type of figurative language is a simile. This figurative language contributes to the tone and theme development by leaving the reader with a sense of being lost and trapped.

5b.”It makes you feel nothing at all, lost emotions,” This type of figurative language is a sensory detail. This sensory detail contributes to the tone and theme development because it causes the reader to feel a sense of emptiness.

6a. I changed meaning to purpose because it is a more affirmative word that gets the point across in the poem.

6b. I changed there to on a bench because it gives the reader a sense of being able to look through the narrator’s eyes.

7. It was easy to write this poem because I have gone through experiences of very temporary moments of insanity before so I know how it feels. I also found it easy to write this poem because I have done some research on what people who are insane feel in their mind.
8. I am satisfied with my final draft because it turned out to be very descriptive of my emotion and it will give you the feeling of being in the narrator’s place and how the narrator feels.