Briana+Hicks

Introduction:  Sometimes poems can be difficult if you put too much thought into them. While at other times, poems can be too simple if you put little thought into them. For me, since I’m pretty used to writing poems they can come out okay. My poems aren’t the best, but I do try to make an effort with them. For the poems below, I tried to use things that I enjoyed or made me happy. I didn’t really set a theme for anyone of my poems, but in general at least every single one of my poems has a rhyming structure. My reason behind using a rhyming structure is because it’s easier for me to explain things that I want to explain without it being so straightforward. It’d also easier for me to place similes and metaphors within my poems as well. But, because I was a bit worried in my borrowed line poem that I rhymed too much, I decided to not make that one rhyme. For once I wanted to step out of my comfort zone and see if it was possible for me to still be able to get my point across at the same time being satisfied with the work that I produced without rhyming. It was a pretty heard process, but I noticed that when I didn’t have to worry about things rhyming, a lot more of using the five senses came out making my poem sound much stronger. Knowing all of this and my reasoning behind some of my poems, please enjoy reading a few.

1. "Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry." –Gustave Flaubert

Things I'm going to do:

Rhyme Scheme

Simile/Metaphor

Confused about my decision Hurt about losing someone Upset about the situation Guilty Unsure about my choice Willing to try something new A forgotten friend A wounded heart

2. <span style="color: #00bbff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Rough Draft Of My Poem <span style="color: #00bbff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">If you’re always losing something or someone are you considered a loser for life? <span style="color: #00bbff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">When you’re a loser, can you ever think things over more then once but less than twice? <span style="color: #00bbff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">As a loser of things are we ever able to not be losers, but finders? <span style="color: #00bbff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Finders; people who seem to be found into anyone’s heart and to even find the most complicated things. <span style="color: #00bbff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">While the losers often discover the hurtful people disguise with their fake halo’s and their artificial wings. <span style="color: #00bbff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Is it possible for losers to also become a finder? <span style="color: #00bbff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">To maybe lose something important and find something better. <span style="color: #00bbff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">What if losers aren't really losers, but just an unfortunate finder instead? <span style="color: #00bbff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Is it then possible for an unfortunate finder to become a fortunate finder who doesn't think on their feet, but on their head? <span style="color: #00bbff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Maybe unfortunate finders have so much trouble simply because <span style="color: #00bbff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">They're being something they never was <span style="color: #00bbff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">And because of that funny fact <span style="color: #00bbff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Will losers ever become finders if they maybe stop looking and wait to found like a needle in a haystack?

<span style="color: #15a0e5; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Revised Poem: <span style="color: #15a0e5; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">If you're always losing something or someone are you considered a loser for life? <span style="color: #15a0e5; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">When you're a loser, can you ever think things over more then once but less than twice? <span style="color: #15a0e5; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">As a loser of things, are we ever able to not be losers, but finders? <span style="color: #15a0e5; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Finders; those special people who can find anything their heart wishes for. <span style="color: #15a0e5; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Those glowing halos of theirs and those life-full wings that people can't ignore, <span style="color: #15a0e5; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">How is it possible to have something lost when the thing that's lost, has nothing but the finders adore. <span style="color: #15a0e5; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Will the losers ever become finders? <span style="color: #15a0e5; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">To be able to let go of the pity and guilt and to not be the last downer? <span style="color: #15a0e5; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">It may never be true, Loser will probably always lack <span style="color: #15a0e5; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Will losers ever become finders if they stop looking and become the needle in a haystack?

<span style="color: #e038c4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">3. <span style="color: #e038c4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Ode to Paper:

<span style="color: #e038c4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">To write or not to write, that is the question <span style="color: #e038c4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> To draw or not to draw, that is the answer. <span style="color: #e038c4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> Both are art in very artistic ways <span style="color: #e038c4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> Either describing yourself, or ingraining an image into someone else’s brain. <span style="color: #e038c4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> Drawing and writing both yarn for tools <span style="color: #e038c4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> Either a pen or a pencil can intimidate someone else’s rules. <span style="color: #e038c4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> Screaming words on a sheet <span style="color: #e038c4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> Or imagination that runs wild on its feet <span style="color: #e038c4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> Jumping onto a piece a paper to make ends meet— <span style="color: #e038c4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> A symbol or so you would call it, on a nice square sheet. <span style="color: #e038c4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> Drawing and writing, writing and drawing <span style="color: #e038c4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> These are the things that are in people calling. <span style="color: #e038c4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> Salute to yourself, because even stick figures, and ‘roses are red poems’ are great for artists <span style="color: #e038c4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> So don't give up on art! Because when you do you'll realize that that move wasn't the smartest.

<span style="color: #4edf56; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. <span style="color: #4edf56; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">All in a Day: (founded) <span style="color: #4edf56; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Okay, be that way <span style="color: #4edf56; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">I learned something cool something cool today 96, and you late I cannot fit any more stuff on my plate This is one boss library jawn Marker holder jawn And he just hits it off So, are we all game characters or something I’m gona go home and write a song about you Cause, you know he don’t care

<span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5. <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I Was by___ <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I was intrigued by anime <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Everything and more, and more than everything  <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Its cool, stealth like creativity  <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It can be learned from, making people speak in a silly soliloquy  <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Most cannot understand, and make it to be a foolish mockery  <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I was intrigues by anime  <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Everything and more, and more than everything <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I was taught by puzzles <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Teaching me how to use my brain  <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Memorizing the shapes that scattered around screaming to come together to form an image so plain  <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Alining numbers in boxes much so that their repeated number could never meet themselves again  <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"SUDOKU?!" It's difficult to have 9 different numbers in one box, must be hard for numbers to have nice friends <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Puzzle pieces always seem to find their friends, always together until the breaking end  <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I was taught by puzzles  <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Teaching me how to use my brain <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I was led on by drawing <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The way it got angry at plain black strokes, and began ignoring. <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The way it's bright colors mimicked the stroke of the sun, the grass, and the piece of white that was just so boring <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The way it switch the texture of its skin morphing into smooth silk anytime you make the slightest movement with your pencil  <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Drawing seduced me, the Ace of spades, the beauty killer  <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I was led on by drawing, but "Who was the dealer?" <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I was tricked by money <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It said it'd always be there  <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Louder than a ringing church bell saying, "I'll never be here." <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"Here?" Yes here, with me, when I need it the most <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Standing strong, blocking anything past, it said it'll watch my post  <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I was supposed to smell the wonderful smell of glory, taste it on my tounge  <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">But all i ever tasted from money was that tasteless chocolate covered honey bun  <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I could have had something, something that could have been kept  <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I was trick by money  <span style="color: #ff6c00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">So wouldn't that technecly mean that I wasn't the only one that money could accept? <span style="color: #ad5ee8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6. <span style="color: #ad5ee8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"We've fallen into the place where everything is music"- by Coleman Barks <span style="color: #ad5ee8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Where when I scream my anger shoots down in thunder  <span style="color: #ad5ee8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Making it all seem that where in a dramatic orchestra  <span style="color: #ad5ee8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Or when I laugh does the sound drizzle and melt like chocolate on a hotsunde  <span style="color: #ad5ee8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Or does tear at the ears of everybody I'm in the same room with? <span style="color: #ad5ee8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">When I walk, does it snatch the words from somebodies mouth, <span style="color: #ad5ee8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Or does it pull the laughter of my awkward walk out? <span style="color: #ad5ee8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I sometimes wonder what other people think of me. <span style="color: #ad5ee8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I know my personality whispers, "watch out for that girl" <span style="color: #ad5ee8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And that I give off such a pokerfaced vibe  <span style="color: #ad5ee8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Can my expression even be read? Like a child's story book that makes you think from your head. <span style="color: #ad5ee8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">But then again, do we ever think from our brains? <span style="color: #ad5ee8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We make a fool out of our brains, and play babysitter with our hearts. <span style="color: #ad5ee8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Can we ever really fall into the special place where everything is music <span style="color: #ad5ee8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And not where we trip into a place of silence and betrayal? <span style="color: #ad5ee8; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">media type="file" key="Poem - Medium.m4v" width="300" height="300" <span style="color: #e8df5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7. <span style="color: #e8df5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It's not a piano but it always have keys <span style="color: #e8df5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I may lose the keys but it's not a car nor an R-V  <span style="color: #e8df5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">They don't jingle when I make a sudden move  <span style="color: #e8df5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">If I ever lose a key, those keys will take my "cool"  <span style="color: #e8df5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Those keys, they help me discover, they help me learn  <span style="color: #e8df5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">They even help me how to treat a burn  <span style="color: #e8df5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">These keys help people stay out, to never let them in  <span style="color: #e8df5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">But it's not like someone wants to steal them, but rather communicate with one another  <span style="color: #e8df5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Talking, laughing, fighting. though without fist, but with words that go even farther <span style="color: #e8df5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Keys that have a deeper realization of every nation that causes most people to lose attention  <span style="color: #e8df5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Keys that do not open wide ranged doors but keys that open hearts of people without any suspension  <span style="color: #e8df5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Keys that hold lies and fairytales behind them  <span style="color: #e8df5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">So shallow, and drowned in a black and white color world that's just so dim  <span style="color: #e8df5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Keys. Keys. Keys. Not keys you that you can jingle <span style="color: #e8df5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Not keys that hits mallets, producing tunes that can make you tingle  <span style="color: #e8df5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">No, they're not imaginary keys that open a door to "imagination"  <span style="color: #e8df5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">They're keys that when typed, can access you to anyone around any nation  <span style="color: #e8df5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You don't really hit them, more like slam. <span style="color: #e8df5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">When they seem to stop working, it always ends up in with a "Bam" <span style="color: #e8df5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You type on it, press its button  <span style="color: #e8df5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">But lucky for you it forgives you and say, "It's Nothin'"  <span style="color: #e8df5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Conversations for the mind to explore  <span style="color: #e8df5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">These keys, see they help learn more and more. <span style="color: #1cceb4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8. <span style="color: #1cceb4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> The poet I chose to study was Rita Dove. Rita Dove is an African American woman who was born in Akron, Ohio in the year 1952. Till this day she is still making poems for others to enjoy. Not only does she write poems, but she also writes stories as well as writes scripts. The joy of reading books began to pave the way of her wanting to write herself. The reason why I chose Rita Dove was because I thought that her poems resorted around human feelings. “Human Feelings” seemed to have been a reoccurring theme in the poems that I’ve taken a liking to. For example, in the poem “Flirtation” by Rita Dove it stated, “After all, there’s no need / to say anything / at first. And orange, peeled / and quartered, flares/ like a tulip on a wedgewood plate / Anything can happen.” In this poem she talked about the feeling you get when you begin to flirt with someone that is attractive, or someone that you have a crush on. Her writing style is unique simply because of the fact, she takes her time to give you a visual of what she is trying to express through her feeling that many others had to have felt before, or is currently feeling now. Plus, because she spends a lot of time giving visuals in her writing, it helps you understand the meaning of her poems. An example of where she does this is in the poem, “ ‘I have been a stranger in a strange land’ ”. The stanza quoted, “ So she wandered for a while, bush to arbor, / lingered to look through a pond’s restive mirror. / He was off cataloging the universe, probably, / pretending he could organize / what was clearly someone else’s chaos.” From this, you can atomically capture the essences of the image she was trying to produce in order to help people understand what she meant. The thing she was getting to in that part of the stanza was that someone was trying to help/fix the problems of the world, which can never really happen. This shows you that her writing can help you visualize the things she wants to get across. Not only does she help make people visualize her work, but she also plays a bit with her writing format. In her poem, “Heart to Heart” she stated, “ It’s neither red / nor sweet. It doesn’t melt / or turn over, / break or harden, / so it can’t feel / pain, / yearning, / regret.” In “Heart to Heart”, she parted the words to give the poem more of an impact for the reader. Even when it began to get to the end of the stanza, she shortened the length of the words she was using to give the breaks stronger pause. <span style="color: #1cceb4; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left;"> In short, Rita Dove is a really interesting poet to look up. Her poems have such a soft echoing feel to them. They can compare to anyone, as well as have different meanings to different people. I would recommend her to anyone interested in just something fun to read instead of the same sad poems, or romance poems. Rita Dove is different, and she has an amazing writing style, and more people should see it.