Anthony+Harley

"A poem should be palpable and mute as a globed fruit" I agree because you really shouldn't have to look deep into a poem to find the meaning inside of it. It's lke you can feel what they are trying to say by looking at it and shouldn't have to dissect every line to find a meaning

Newest poem this week......ODES

It does everything I need it to do Makes it easy to do things Makes things logical Makes you less lethargic to learn about how they work Increases my vocabulary Gets me random facts Shuts down when I don’t give it energy It’ll crash if I give it to many things But all in all I still love it It keeps you company Makes you feel a bit responsible Of course sometimes its bad but overall I wouldn’t replace My ode to children

This week we had to write....SONNETS (not fun at all) Cheesecake is so good, But it is so bad The calories in it are full of bane, But the stuff that I eat is really sad But the thought of losing weight keeps me sane I won’t try to eat it when I’m need food Because it will fill me up to the brim When I don’t eat I get an attitude At this rate I’ll have to remove a limb I get a higher risk for bad disease I’ll get big and not be able to run I’ll have that fat the all kids want to squeeze If I keep going that way I’ll be done

I should stay away from that new candy ad Just like clothes all this stuff is just a fad

Well this poem was easier to write tha the last one is was a.........Ghazal

This part of the day sometimes fills me with fright But it is so beautiful and gives me inspiration at night

The fireflies at night are full of bliss They give me illumination at night

However the darkness is scary It may cause a bit of intimidation at night

It’s s dark and it gets dark later But it’s fine because I’ll see the constellations at night

I have to admit sometimes doing stuff is hard And it cause some frustration at night

It’s so quite and easy to relax It’s a good time for meditation at night

Since this time is not long I am filled with anticipation at night

I can’t do anything much though I mean it’s no time for recreation at night

But since the day is over I can sleep so I am filled with elation at night

Now I can slow down and go to sleep Time for maximum deceleration at night

My name is Anthony Harley And to make this there was collaboration at night

I find it really weird how I right mom poems. They end up being really random and they just come from of the top of my head. Certain stuff is in my poems just to fill space. Other that I don't know where they come from I mean come. If you've seen my poem ever single one of them is actually random. But truthfully I like the rhyme scheme of sonnets the most because when I write poetry that's what I do. However ghazals do intrigue me even though I don't know much about them.

They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair. Dinner is a casual affair. Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood, Tin flatware.
 * __The bean eaters__**

Two who are Mostly Good. Two who have lived their day, But keep on putting on their clothes And putting things away.

And remembering. . . Remembering, with twinklings and twinges, As they lean over the beans in their rented back room that is full of beads and receipts and dolls and cloths, tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes.

In the poem “The bean eaters” Gwendolyn brooks writes, “ Two who are mostly good”. This line represents the fact truly no one is innocent even when they think they are so it can never be true but it can be displayed.

In the poem “The bean eaters” Gwendolyn brooks writes, “ But keep putting on their clothes and putting things away”. By this she means locking your fears, dreams, innobition, and emotions in a closet to keep focused on making it through life. It also shows that there like is bad and they live day by day but they get by.

In the poem “The bean eaters” Gwendolyn brooks writes, “Remembering, with twinklings and twinges, As they lean over the beans in their rented back room that”. This means of course they know chances are there dreams will not be fulfilled and they see in in the food they eat They can’t do much about it because that’s just the way life is for them.

Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get, The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair, The singers and workers that never handled the air. You will never neglect or beat Them, or silence or buy with a sweet. You will never wind up the sucking-thumb Or scuttle off ghosts that come. You will never leave them, controlling your luscious sigh, Return for a snack of them, with gobbling mother-eye.
 * __Mother__**

I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed children. I have contracted. I have eased My dim dears at the breasts they could never suck. I have said, Sweets, if I sinned, if I seized Your luck And your lives from your unfinished reach, If I stole your births and your names, Your straight baby tears and your games, Your stilted or lovely loves, your tumults, your marriages, aches, and your deaths, If I poisoned the beginnings of your breaths, Believe that even in my deliberateness I was not deliberate. Though why should I whine, Whine that the crime was other than mine?-- Since anyhow you are dead. Or rather, or instead, You were never made. But that too, I am afraid, Is faulty: oh, what shall I say, how is the truth to be said? You were born, you had body, you died. It is just that you never giggled or planned or cried.

Believe me, I loved you all. Believe me, I knew you, though faintly, and I loved, I loved you All.

In the poem “mother” by Gwedolyn brooks says, “Abortions will never let you forget”. Getting an abortion is a painful thing as surveyed to women but the haunting experience for killing another life is bad. Also a lot of the time people won’t let you forget and get inside your head so you won’t get the abortion.

In the poem “mother” by Gwedolyn brooks says, “ Or scuttle off ghost that come”. She is trying to say that by not having the baby how will you have those days were you have to burst into their rooms to scare away the ghost that may just be the drapes.

In the poem “mother” by Gwedolyn brooks says, “ If I poisoned the beginnings of your breath. Believe that even in my deliberateness I was not deliberate”. This means that she is sorry for all the abortions that happened and that she might have gotten. She never wanted to kill them but at the time it seemed like the right thing to do for here

In the poem “mother” by Gwedolyn brooks says, “If I stole your births and names”. This means that she is also sorry for the fact that the aborted fetuses did get names and the birthdays because they were never born. A name is who you are and a birthday is the day you were brought into the were both are very special but they never had had the chance to experience it.

In the poem “mother” by Gwedolyn brooks says, “Believe me, I knew you, though faintly, and I loved, I loved you All”. She is saying even tough they were aborted and that even though she may have been part of them that she loved them all and regrets aborting babies.


 * __We real cool__**

We real cool. We Left school. We

Lurk late. We Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We Die soon.

In the poem “We real cool” by Gwendolyn brooks it says “ We left school”. Ultimately this is one of the biggest staples in who is considered cool or not. School was deemed un-cool so you are only cool if you leave it.

In the poem “We real cool” by Gwendolyn brooks it says “ We lurk late”. Often something people do to hang with people or to be cool is go out or hang late at night. Just to do that or disobey their curfew.

In the poem “We real cool” by Gwendolyn brooks it says “ We sing sin”. A metaphorical term that means that they curse and also that they do what ever they want because nobody can stop them.

In the poem “We real cool” by Gwendolyn brooks it says “ We thin gin”. Well alcohol is thinned and filtered out in you liver and kidneys meaning that they drink. This is something that comes from peer pressure. Doing stuff when your underage always seems cool. So they drink and they must do it a lot.

In the poem “We real cool” by Gwendolyn brooks it says “We die soon”. Well the life of being cool is a life that is tough on your body. Drugs, alcohol, underage things, not going to school, and ending up on the street. All very bad things and that lifestyle is eventually going to do you in whether it may a harsh winter and you’re homeless because jobs aren’t cool or your overdose on morphine or succumb to alcohol poisoning.