Table of Contents

I am Poem

Bio Poem

Re-creation Poem

Stylistic Imitation Poem

Defintion Poem

Limerick Poem

Ode Poem

Found Poem

Choral Poem

Favorite Poem

I Am Poem: High School Changed Me

I am low-spirited

I understand not everyone will like me

I say I am a boxer that will beat the rumors

I dream that high school will be over soon

I try to put a grin on my face, making a fake smile

I hope that I will have real friends one day

I am waiting for change

I am alone

I wonder if anyone will see that

I hear low voices laughing at me

I see teenagers whispering from one ear to the other

I want to ignore the drama

I am a believer

I pretend everything is okay

I feel excluded from the rest of the school

I worry about my self esteem

I cry late at night so no one will hear my tears

The setting of the I am poem, "High School Changed Me," is Santana High School, all around campus. With the phrase, "I see teenagers whispering from one ear to the other," I used imagery for the audience to see teenagers gossiping. I used another type of imagery with the phrase, "I hear low voices laughing at me," to have the audience hear kids laughing at me This poem is about how I feel about myself during high school .because I feel out of place at Santana. I want the audience to feel isolated and judged as I do.

I am Poem: High School Changed Me

The background of the Bio Poem, "Hailey Justice," is describing myself about my characteristics. With the expression, "Lover of cookies, Chipotle, and Chili's," I used alliteration to describe what I love to eat. I used a simile with the clause, "I fear spiders like a young girl who fears dinosaurs," to compare my fear toward insects. The purpose of this poem is to describe my characteristics and my passions. I want the audience to know how I see myself in someone else eyes.

Bio Poem: Hailey Justice

Bio Poem: Hailey Justice

Hailey,

Thankful, ambitious, faithful, lively

Daughter of Chris and Sara

Lover of cookies, Chipotle, and Chili’s

Who feels passion, love, and determination for softball

Who needs to go to the beach, tan, and swim

Who gives her heart, love, and affection to her family

Who fears spiders like a young girl who fears dinosaurs

Who would like to see Europe, Jamaica, and Africa

Resident of Santee, California

Justice

Re-Creation Poem: Gray December Night

Long brown hair, covering her brown eyes

Pink plaid shirt drenched in O-positive blood

Singular bullet hiss past my body

Porch light burned red

Thoughts running

Skin shivering, skin peeling

Weighted down with fear

Touching her shoulder

My breath before me

Weather changing

Fearing tiered steps

Took her hand

Sparked with fire

My face so bright

This gray December has changed

Selected words are from Gary Soto’s poem “Oranges”

The setting of the re-creation poem, "Grey December Night," is in front of my house. With the locution, "Pink plaid shirt drenched in O-positive blood," I used alliteration and imagery. The alliteration in pink describes a young, innocent girl. The imagery with blood on her shirt describes the young girl getting injured. I also used repetition and consonance with "skin burning, skin peeling" to describe how my skin was crawling with shock when she got shot. The purpose of this poem is to describe how my best friend got shot and how I was feeling during that time.

Re-creation: Grey December Night

Imitation: The Month about Love

The background of the imitation poem, "The Month about Love," takes place in the backyard of my family's old condominium during February. I used repetition "on the 16th of February" to emphasize the importance of that date. I also used imagery with "cut on my left leg" and "feet throbbing with pain" to make the audience feel the pain I was feeling. This poem was written to describe how I was locked out of my house at a young age and how my adventures began that day. Also I used multiple different types of imagery to describe all the feeling I felt and to give the audience a picture of what the day was like.

On the 16th of February.

It was on the 16th of February.

Trees whispering

On the 16th of February.

Big black fences laughing

On the 16th of February

I am hula hooping in a green gown

On the 16th of February.

Locked door inside

On the 16th of February.

Turning the knob trying to get inside

On the 16th of February.

Climbing the fence

On the 16th of February.

Cut on my left leg

On the 16th of February.

Feet throbbing with pain

On the 16th of February.

Imitation Poem: The Month about Love

My tears feel like fire against my face

On the 16th of February.

My tiny hands knocking on our front door

On the 16th of February.

No one answering

On the 16th of February.

Running to my neighbors

On the 16th of February.

Calling the house phone

On the 16th of February.

No one answering

On the 16th of February.

My father running towards me

On the 16th of February.

His tears felt like ice on my head

On the 16th of February.

Cradling me apologizing

On the 16th of February.

It was on the 16th of February

Imitation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s style in his poem “Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías

Definition Poem: Zoanthropy

Zoanthropy: [zo-an-thro-py], noun, plural zoanthropes:

A human believing that they are an animal; psychotic belief, delusion,

The full moon shines on an October night

Chains welded inside the underground cave

Screaming and screeching coming from the cave,

Fighting against the chains like an inmate trying to escape prison

Bones breaking every time he moves

Looking down on his hands, slowly filling with fur,

He feels his teeth getting by the second

Everything goes black,

Suddenly the sun is shining through the cave,

He struggles to get out of the chains

Flashing red in the corner,

Recording all night

Looks at the tape

Realized him being a wolf was a delusion.

The setting of the definition poem, "Zoanthropy," takes place in an underground cave. With the phrase, "Fighting against the chains like an inmate trying to escape prison," I used a simile to compare that the man in transformation was trying to be set free. Also another locution, "he feels his teeth getting sharper by the second" I used a hyperbole to exaggerate that the man was having a delusion. Finally with this phrase, "bones breaking every time he moves" I used alliteration and imagery to relate that his bones are breaking by the minute. The cause of this poem is to announce that transforming into an animal is a delusion.

Definition: Zoanthropy

Limerick: Avoidance

The background of the limerick poem, "Avoidance," is in a hallway at Santana High School. WIth the expression, "her friends were walking. Laughing and talking," I used rhyme with "walking" and "talking" to emphasize that her friends were gossiping and walking without her. I used consonance with "she skipped down the hall smiling and humming. Then she realized that they were all coming" to report that she was avoiding the situation with her friends. The basis of this poem is to let the audience know that a high school girl avoided her friends to avoid the drama.

She skipped down the hall smiling and humming

Then she realized that they were all coming,

Her friends were walking

Laughing and talking,

She ran away the avoid the incoming.

Limerick Poem: Avoidance