By: Cayden Gavin

I woke up early in the morning

Ate a quick breakfast and went down stairs.

I grabbed my fishing gear and hoped on my bike,

Riding down the gravel road with no one around,

With The warm sun beating on my back.

My rod in my left hand and tackle box in right,

The struggle to steer as the rough rocky road bounced my bike around.

I found a spot, hopped off my bike and layed it against a sizable tree,

I sat on the edge of the canal and started fishing,

The smell of fresh salty air all around.

A light breeze making small ripples across the water

And the sound of waves crashing in the distance,

Billions of minos swimming in the water below me

But nothing taking the bait.

Fish start to jump and splash water close to me

Finally one was on the line

I reeled it in and got one,

I took the wet and slimy fish off the line and threw it back

I knew it was going to be a good day for fishing.

The poem type I published was the sensory detail poem.

I chose this event as the basis of my poem because I knew there was a lot of sensory details.

The tone of my poem is peaceful.

The theme of my poem is that you should appreciate nature.

Billions of minos swimming in the water below me is a hyperbole and it tells the reader that you can find cool things in nature.

Another figurative language is small ripples across the water. This is imagery and it shows that the surroundings are peaceful.

One revision I made was changing big tree to sizable tree. It added better language to the poem making it sound better.

A second revision I made was adding fresh before salty to show that the air smelled good.

This poem was easy to write because there was a lot of sensory details and it was a really peaceful moment.

I am really satisfied with this poem because it captured the moment really really well and in detail.

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.

by Britney Nguyen

If only they knew what they were doing to their home

With their litterings destroying our biomes

For when we have no more air to breathe

That’s when they know they must seize

But by then it would be too late

And discover that they could’ve changed the fate

When the air becomes as dark as tar

To our own Earth we have left a scar

And when the seas cry out, filled with our rummage

There will be no time to go pack our luggage

We will stay the same if we go to Mars,

But if we damage it like we did to Earth, could we really call it ours?

Poetry Publication Reflection

1. The type of poem I published was an “Inspired By” Poem.

2. My source of inspiration was an issue, which was pollution, because pollution has something to do with the whole world which I wanted to reach out to.

3. The tone of my poem is despair (keywords: dark, scar, damage, destroying).

4. The theme of my poem is to change before it’s too late.

5. Two examples of figurative language in the poem are:

a) Quote: “When the air becomes as dark as tar,”

b) Type: Simile

c) This figurative language contributes to tone and theme development because it shows that we are polluting the air with harsh chemicals and making the air unbreathable.

a) Quote: “And when the seas cry out,”

b) Type: Personification

c) This figurative language contributes to tone and theme development because it shows how much we are damaging our waters to the point they feel the need to cry, like when we happen to cry when we are hurt.

6. Two specific ways I revised this poem are

Revision #1: I changed “And when the seas become impossible to rummage,” to “And when the seas cry out, filled with our rummage,”.

Explanation: I made this revision because I wanted to add a piece of personification, to show if the seas had feelings like we do.

Revision #2: I changed “people” to “they” in the beginning and middle of the poem.

Explanation: I made this revision because I wanted the reader to think “Who?” even though it would be obvious, but the pollution could be coming from anything and anyone, but I then revealed the word “our” towards the end to show that it was us humans who were doing the damage.

7. It was easy to write this poem because pollution is a worldwide problem and coming from my perspective, I had a lot of feelings about it so I just let my thoughts flow out into this poem.

8. I am very satisfied with my final draft because I got to project how I see the relationship between humans and Earth with pollution.

By: Jahnavi M.

We march through the sullied streets of our country,

With our glaring and garish signs casting a subtle shadow across the sky.

Gold swords and obsidian daggers held high,

And our heads held higher.

The youth who advocate with passion and fervor,

Who are hurting and hearing, waiting and watching,

Are pushing through, are rising,

Empires evolving.

Our voices are shouting, straining,

Trying to say,

That you may be in control now,

And we may bow,

But soon it will change,

And we will advance forward,

Bringing halcyon days.

So I promise you,

That when the time comes,

Us, the not-so-typical-kids who have ways to go,

All of us,

Will fight for gun control,

Will fight for our safety and security,

Because we have taken too much,

And been beaten up too much,

And hurt, and held, and hid too much.

We are emerging,

And we aren’t standing aside anymore.

If there is one thing I can promise you,

One thing from the deepest parts of my soul,

It’s that all the screams,

And all the cries,

Will slowly diminish,

Will soon be scarce,

Because we aren’t kids anymore,

But merely students of life, like every other human on this Earth.

We are devoted, intelligent, insightful people,

And we’re ready to take our spots in the world,

Our thrones.

1. I wrote an inspired by poem.

2. The source of my inspiration was gun control. I chose this subject because it is a big problem and people are getting hurt. I believe that something needs to be done to change the laws that allow people to use and buy guns that can fire 40 to 50 rounds of bullets at one time.

3. The tone of my poem is promising.

4. The theme of my poem is “coming of age.”

5.

a) “Our voices are shouting, straining…”

b) This quote is personification.

c) The quote contributes to the tone and theme development by emphasizing the fact that the kids are trying to get people to understand what they are trying to say.

a) “Because we aren’t kids anymore, but merely students of life, like every other human on this Earth.”

b) This quote is personification.

c) The quote contributes to the tone development by showing that life changes all the time and that it is promising because you never know what is going to happen. It also contributes to the theme because it shows that we are not kids anymore, but the same as every other person.

6. 

1)  I changed dissolve into diminish.

2) I inserted standing aside into a line.

7. I felt like it was very easy to write this poem because I am very passionate about this topic.

8. I am very satisfied with my poem because it shows my feelings on a very important topic that is bound to keep coming up.