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//" There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth"- Maya Angelou toc//

Sonnet: Texting 101
 One thing I do day and night, night and day I use both of my thumbs and text away If for some strange reason my phone freezes I use my sister's phone if she pleases If she seems to be in one of her moods All I have to do is tempt her with food Her favorite treat that cannot be turned down Is a chocolate candy bar made by Mounds After this treat she would never deny She gets the phone and this is her reply "Thanks for the snack it really hit the spot Take care of my phone or I will be hot" Back to texting I go with phone in my hand First person to hear from me is my man

Ode: Beautiful
 Beyond the skin and looking deep into your soul Enlightened me, you showed me the true meaning of life, laughter, and love Addicting, I couldn't go a day without hearing your voice U gave me something I never had before and helped me find my voice To me you were better then any gift I would get for my birthdays and Christmases Inside I have a passion, a desire to be just like you Frightened, I didn't know if I could tell you how I really felt about you U looked me in my eyes and beat me to the statement "I wanna be with you" Looked for something real and I found it in you

You saw the real me when no one else cared to look You took me by the hand and sky was the limit for us You helped me find the wonderful secrets life had to offer You gave me the chance to show the real me And if it wasn't for you I don't know where I would be So thank you for everything you gave me

Ghazal: I'm Lost
 Where am I, I seem to be lost in the rain; I'm lost I have no where to go and all I feel is pain; I'm lost

What do people see when they look at me When I look in the mirror i see shame; I'm lost

Where is the joy in this life? What do I have to gain?; I'm lost

It's the same thing over and over I'm tired of playing this game; I'm lost

I know what I need I ordered it but it never came; I'm lost

I try to think outside the box everyday But I never can seem to reach my aim; I'm lost

I can't think straight I'm just trying to keep myself sane; I'm lost

Where is the culprit? Or am I the one to blame?; I'm lost

I gotta get myself together I better start to train; I'm lost

Dejá Monet is the phrase no one will forget Not only is it a phrase but it's my name; I'm lost

My Style:
 When I am about to write or I am writing a poem I usually base them off of experiences that I had in my life time. I base them off of the way I am feeling at the time or I base them off of things I've dreamed about or thought before. I guess my style is sort of a free-write because I write whatever comes to me at the time so I just take what I have and I run with it. I never really seen myself as a poet or a good writer at that, but sometimes when I write poetry I'm in my own little world and no one can tell me what is write or wrong. I just listen to my heart and my mind. As far as grammar I don't follow what you would be taught in school. I would write the way I would usually talk if I were talking to on of my friends. I think poems are a good way for a person to express themselves, even if it's not for and audience, even if it's just for a person to get rid of built up emotions. I know I write poems for that reason to or things from the past that I haven't completely gotten over. Poems also helped me with writing, like the morehave written poems the better my writing has become. Poems help me relieve stress and keeps me having fun with life.

Rudyard Kipling:
 Rudyard was born December 30, 1865 in Bombay, India. He is known for his fiction children books such as: //The Jungle book and The Man Who Would Become King.// His children books are known as classics. He was one of the most popular English writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1907, making him the first English language writer to win that prize. Henry James said," Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." As a writer Kipling has traveled to many places like London, South Africa, and the United States. Although Kipling was doubted by others he never stopped writing and never gave up his dream. He is admired by other poets till this day, as his stories and poems are referred to as a work of genius. Kipling died at the age of 70 January 18, 1963. Although he was born in the 1800's people from all over the world still admire his work till today.

If: Rudyard Kipling
 IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!' If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, ' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch, if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

In the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling, the poem is telling the reader that they should never give up on their dreams, and they shouldn't let anyone change the way the person thinks or what they believe in. In the poem he says," If you can dream and not make dreams your master. If you can think and not make thought your aim." In this quote he is telling the reader that they shouldn't let dreams consume their whole life and they also shouldn't think to hard about anything to the point that they stress themselves out. And he is giving this advice because he knows how it feels to be knocked down and told that he couldn't do something.


<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: rgb(141, 27, 140);">Eyes of grey -- a sodden quay, Driving rain and falling tears, As the steamer wears to sea In a parting storm of cheers. Sing, for Faith and Hope are high -- None so true as you and I -- Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!"

Eyes of black -- a throbbing keel, Milky foam to left and right; Whispered converse near the wheel In the brilliant tropic night. Cross that rules the Southern Sky! Stars that sweep and wheel and fly, Hear the Lovers' Litany: Love like ours can never die!"

Eyes of brown -- a dusy plain Split and parched with heat of June, Flying hoof and tightened rein, Hearts that beat the old, old tune. Side by side the horses fly, Frame we now the old reply Of the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!"

Eyes of blue -- the Simla Hills Silvered with the moonlight hoar; Pleading of the waltz that thrills, Dies and echoes round Benmore. "Mabel," "Officers," "Good-bye," Glamour, wine, and witchery -- On my soul's sincerity, "Love like ours can never die!"

Maidens of your charity, Pity my most luckless state. Four times Cipid's debtor I -- Bankrupt in quadruplicate. Yet, despite this evil case, And a maiden showed me grace, Four-and-forty times would I Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: rgb(139, 24, 139);">In the poem "The Lover's Litany", Kipling is talking about the different loves he has had in his life and he starts off by telling the color of the woman's eyes at the time. The quote" Sing the Lover's Litany 'Love like ours can never die'." It is saying that each time we would think that he would never find a love like the woman he had before and so he ended up repeating the same line over. Which gives the poem its name because litany means saying the same line or verse over and over again and that is what he did in this poem.



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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: rgb(139, 29, 139);"> If any God should say, "I will restore The world her yesterday Whole as before My Judgment blasted it"--who would not lift Heart, eye, and hand in passion o'er the gift?

If any God should will To wipe from mind The memory of this ill Which is Mankind In soul and substance now--who would not bless Even to tears His loving-tenderness?

If any God should give Us leave to fly These present deaths we live, And safely die In those lost lives we lived ere we were born-- What man but would not laugh the excuse to scorn?

For we are what we are-- So broke to blood And the strict works of war-- So long subdued To sacrifice, that threadbare Death commands Hardly observance at our busier hands.

Yet we were what we were, And, fashioned so, It pleases us to stare At the far show Of unbelievable years and shapes that flit, In our own likeness, on the edge of it.

Rebirth by Rudyard Kipling is about wanting the world to change and wanting a God who will make the world like we want it. He's saying that they way mankind is today isn't good and it will probably only get worse with time unless a God changes the way we think in act."If any God should say,'I will restore the world her yesterday' whole as before." In this quote its saying he would like to have a world like it was before humans started messing up things. He's saying that he would like for a God to restore what was once a peaceful and happy place. So this poem is basically about wanting to change the world.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: rgb(139, 29, 139);">Thank You
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: rgb(139, 24, 139);">I hope you enjoyed my poems as well as the others I posted up there. I would like to thank my mom and my sister for help giving me ideas. This was a fun project and I enjoyed it. Thanks for stopping by.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: rgb(141, 21, 157);">Something Extra:
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: rgb(141, 21, 157);">I found this poem while reading a magazine called "Teen Impact".It comes from a student that attends Mountain View High School. Out off all the poems in this book this is the one I liked the most. I liked it because I did one of my poems at the top on this subject and overall I just thought it was a good poem.

What Beauty Really Is: Julia Hess

I see pictures, ads and movie stars, Promoting what beauty is. I see teens hurting themselves To be what beauty is. I watch the news, I read the paper; They seem to know what beauty is. Some feel self-doubt, and self-conscience When they don't match up to what beauty is. All the rave diets, pills, and starving, To be what beauty is. Yet when I look in the mirror, I see what beauty is. I don't have all the latest fashions, I don't eat sparingly, I'm not in any ways special to the world, Who I am special to, is me I love myself, And I'm proud of who I've become; I see my goodness, I don't focus on the bad. I look to the good in others. I try to live life to the fullest. I want to succeed, and only do my best. And when you find these qualities, And live them day by day, Your reflection in the mirror will shine. For you will be What beauty is.