Brittany+Riggins

" Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. - Leonard Cohen " Poetry is what gets lost in translation"- Robert Frost Quote about poems: Poetry is expressing emotions that you would want to say through art I think poetry is the strongest piece of writing people can do or speak. I think that any poetry serious or not has some sort of meaning to the person writing it down. "

Memory poem:

The beauty in the machine Many people come out of the womb with a problem that often fades away, but memories of what I came out with comes with me everyday, hard to breathe a constant nuisance people watch me take this medicine, I sit there thinking am I different an alien? It had no taste and was kind of funny it got on my nerves so bad I would pay money to get rid of this honey. THUMP skip THUMP my heart that beats that way, Why take this medicine have I become a feine? They place the plastic over my mouth and nose, they press the buttons and it all goes in, all the kids look at me like an alien a bear and I always seemed to sit there and really really care why did I come out of the with this problem?, Thank God today I live and breathe without one.

Beauty and the Bike: memory poem

Come on let's go let's have and experience today is my first time I'll be riding this equipment, It's pink and pretty and mommy bought it for me I get on and ride for 2 or three minutes but then there's a thump and a bump and man did it hurt my head, my leg, my arm, my face why didn't she tell me it would hurt give me space I loved this contraption the first time I got it but now I despise it I no longer want it, I will never ride you again this promise I took serious tomorrow, today never again.

Is hard being a person: Riff poem

Boy is that right you have to look nice and dress nice and take showers, But you become immune Immune to the criticism immune to the opinions immune to your mom immune to your dad immune to your aunts, uncles and cousins you become use to your thoughts and feelings sad happy excited and mad you become a person that's bad Is hard being a person yes the statement is true but believe it or not every child, person teen adult someone out there loves you for you.

"Ode to thinking" Ode to the man that loves his wife unconditionally and loves her with and without pain ode to the child that walks the nights crisp air hitting the face of the child who's tears fall ever so slightly and freeze his cheek Ode to the Dads that take care for their children and let them no they are loved Ode to day when there's nothing for me to say Ode to the day Ode to the day Ode to the day when god takes my body away I'm ready to die ode to that day ode to the way he says my name Ode to his parents that birthed him life Ode to the day he makes me his wife thought you knew where I was going with this but ode to the day you can read and like it for it.

Sonnet Poem: One mistake

Its funny but not funny how one mistake can make a difference a difference that can last a lifetime or a couple of minutes One day everything's fine and the next it gone poof pow bam right in your face and all u can say is it was one mistake. If only you could go back and do it all over again you would say but I say really? Why what would you have learned what would have happened if the roes had not turned red, and the trees were not tall. I would say where would you be did that one mistake not make you a better person It might have hurted at the time but and made you upset and difficult to look at yourself the same way Your not a bad person you just made a bad mistake one that you cannot take back

Analysis Paper: Poetry is the underlying emotions within ~ Brittany Riggins I started out this unit having this quote in my head about poetry, I was sure that poetry was all about what people would not say out of their mouth and what they would not allow people to see about them. I never realized before this unit that poetry could be looked at in other ways such as art, dance, song, and instruments. I never thought poetry was larger then what people could see. As we looked at different poets and the different ways that people write their poetry we looked at rhythms and styles. We asked ourselves different questions: · What does poetry mean to you? · What is Poetry? · Why do we write poetry? All through the unit I would think about these three questions, Poetry is powerful, it goes beyond your own thinking. Poetry not only allows you to think with your mind but also goes into your heart. What is poetry I do not think you can really give poetry definition poetry is what you think it is everyone has their own opinion of what they think poetry is. What poetry means to me does not mean that it will mean the same for you. Why do we write poetry? I think that also varies from person to person, some people right because the loves to write poetry, some people write because it is a stress reliever, some people write poetry without thinking about it. When we had to write our own poetry I thought that it would be a good idea I thought that we all have something to say in our lives serious or not it comes from within. When we were asked to write about a memory, I could not think of anything right away, as I sat there and went through my mind the only thing that came to mind were memories, I wrote about something that was a big part of my life and as I finished the poem I realized that as I finished the poem I realized that I felt different about the memory then I did before writing it. This makes me think poetry’s definition is in the eyes of the beholder. Poetry can never really have a definition because if you tries to confine poetry to one definition then you are saying that it can only be one thing.