1st Quarter Poetry Journal Reflection

Rain.


(She's)     (the)    (reason)     (my)    (hair)   
(goes  )    (on)     (a)      (rage.) 
(She's)   (like)   (an)   (evil)    (witch) 
  (of)   (the)   (west)  but)   (the)    (World's.) 
(But)    (then)    (again)    (She's) (one)    (of)    (the) 
(main)  (reasons)    (I'm)    (still)    (breathing)     (today.)
(She's)       (my)    (mother)   (without)   (the)    (nagging)
(But)   (boy)    (could)    (she)   (put)   (up) (a) (fight.)
(Everyone)    (shakes)    (when)    (she's)    (ANGRY!)
(Drip.)      (Thunder.)    (Thunder.)



I chose this poem that I made, because I thought I was pretty darn creative. Don't you think?
The parenthesis around each word is supposed to look like rain though at a glance looks
like a BIG mistake, haha. I like this piece owing to the fact that it, not only show cases my creative brain (thank you mom and dad, love you) it also personifies mother nature as a person (and as my mother). I added more lengthier descriptions into my work, despite the fact that this already looks pretty cut short, you should see my draft! I also did more changes into punctuation besides the normal periods that are absolutely everywhere and show no emotion, because life is a boring line. 

The poem I used as reference as did an image for it's base, forget who wrote it specifically but he wrote it to be a staircase!

(real live footage of me at last week's football game)

Laptop

After a long day of lectures I come home back to my silver Dell laptop.
No, it wasn't from the shops yesterday— actually it looks like something in a museum case ancient, old.
I flip open crackling sounds and hear her mumbling as her LOADING tattoo close up.
I open a colorful webpage and start to read. 87% battery.
I turn the page and she yells "10% battery. Please find the nearest power source or device will shut down."

Again? She is so annoying. Ugh!
she sits on a Paris inspired bag and wastes space and electricity.
But what can I do? She gets my assignments done.

I chose this entry specifically because it is literally ME every time I have assignment online and my only outlet is my laptop. Again, I try used personification with my laptop. I didn't really do much editing to this piece besides exaggerating my battery life by a little and added that "Ugh!" because I think most people can hear that voice, that voice saying "Ugh!"

The poetry piece I mentored off of was a describing his grubby car and how disgusting it was but it was almost like his second home. And to that, the poet illustrates how gross his car is and how its filled with trash but in the end it does him good and is his home. My poem is how slow and annoying my laptop is but in the end, I can't finish my assignments and get good grades without it!

(When my battery runs out, and I'm in the middle of writing something I didn't save)

1st Quarter Independent Reading Reflection

Only three more quarters to go! This first quarter, I don't believe I read anymore than I did the year prior to this year. Fairly equal, I'd say. In the time (8 weeks? About 8 weeks.) I read books that didn't stray too far from my sidewalk. And were moderately similar to me and my life style – no one eyed aliens floating around, y'know? I personally enjoyed Where'd you go Bernadette?

by Maria Semple, because not only does the writing format already amaze me, the plot is absolutely 
outstanding. Something in the book happens, that is my first time seeing happen to the main character 
and in any book at all. 10/10!

As mentioned above, I personally don't see myself heading over to the library in order to grab the latest best selling 

fantasy book or anything of that genre. A goal of mine is to expand my picks, and grab at least 2 books in the next quarter 
that either are placed in a different time period or a fantasy book. Another goal of mine is to read a higher level reading book
to enhance my vocabulary and get more familiarized with some new writing formats!



Spiritual reading for me is reading that strengthens a meaning of life, and takes people to different places and times to discover
new perspectives in life that they have yet to have experienced. As I touched upon above as my "favorite book of the quarter"

In Where'd you go Bernadette? by Maria Semple, Bernardette is a mother of a child prodigy and a wife of a man named Elgin.

She experiences a a heartbreaking scar in her life and decides to take matters into her own hands differently. And that is.... Going

to Antarctica. I put myself into the shoes of someone who lives a moment that could easily break the relationship between four people.

And I see a different way of "solving" the incident rather than what I would've done. I got to connect with the mindset of a middle age woman

and her mentality to relax herself in another continent! This novel made me fill up with many emotions of anger and filth and betrayal, but 

can I tell you that.. IT WAS SO GOOD. Please read it if you have the time, because it definitely won't be a waste!