Today, work on your Marking Period portfolio 15-20 pages.
Also, let's get some poetry from last semester for the yearbook senior page!
Finally, if you haven't already, please read Lorie Moore's "How to Be a Writer"--the link is on a post below this.
Jenee Skinner
ReplyDeleteDear Sunflower Child
Ominous loneliness once simmered on my tongue
Like the burning stick of macaroni.
I shake up cocktails with time;
drinking in wrinkles, laughs, love, and children.
Grace simmers in my skillet
bringing back the sour smell of youthful inexperience.
I set the table with softened growing pains
that my family prepares to eat off of.
What was once planted in my consciousness has been picked and served for dinner
Dear Sunflower Child, get ready to chew on womanhood.
BOLERO
ReplyDeleteKhari Thompson
red and gold striped birds flutter swift
and nimble across deep sky.
they greet the clouds,
the wildlife beneath them,
and watch the lions softly slumber.
grass lightly sways as little ants make their way
to and fro;
then break! The animals come free
of their homes and toucan and
parrot and python alike glide
across and down the forest floor
until a quiet crystalline waterfall
breathlessly sparkles
back at them
from here the anteater joins hands with the
ant, and the jaguar puts paw with the hare
and they dance a solid dance,
a dance full of blazing fire and steely
eyes, loose arms and twisting bodies
screaming out in euphony the sound of
the water and coaxing it up, up
around them, enticing it to sooth them
with red snake tongue and sinuous
yellow leg into a still trance
of peaceful oneness
the color of wine.
and then they scatter,
sweet and fulfilled,
into the cool shade
beneath lazy branches and
long hanging leaves.