Thursday, March 1, 2012

Circle of Addiction


Author’s Notes: For this writing I tried a different type of poem called the ABC poem. Each line starts with the next letter in the alphabet. Through this effect I was trying to give a sense of a symbolic circle. During the reading we soon realized Jekyll was going back to Hyde in shorter and shorter amounts of time almost as if an addiction. Addictions always go in circles because the first time is never enough so the keep going like the alphabet and the process keeps going just like the alphabet repeats.

An explosion of emotions erupts through the soul
Blank easels permeated with the colors of frustration and happiness
Cackling to himself, reminiscing on previous convulsions
Demons devour dreams devising dread
Employing evil thoughts human mind naturally intrigued
Fracas against these sins languidly eradicate
Gremlins concocting ideas of evil create repetition
Humans start to thrive the demon inside
Illness rapidly consumes the soul and the other half takes control
Just as the battle is almost over the goodness shines through

Monday, February 27, 2012

Trouble In A Nut Shell

Author’s Notes: During class we talk a lot about the duality in men. How can one person go from being just that single person to having multiple personalities? The thought of if wholly good can ever fully be achieved or is evil always within us. In this poem I attempted the technique of allegory, which is having two meanings a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.

Humans live every color of the rainbow

Angel’s halos are white and round
Devil’s horns are red and pointy

Blood and reproduction construct the basis of all human life

Egg and sperm stream white creating wondrous little creatures
Veins flow with red steamy blood keeping the body alive

Every person is dealt a hand of diverse paths and options

Good deeds are set in place due to decisions and choices
Bad deeds lash out through the subconscious and pressure

Sometimes the weight on the shoulders decide

The right side leaning towards the right decisions and the light
The left side weighing spontaneous decisions having blood pressure sky rocket

The battle of the subconscious makes a head spin round

Brick House

Author’s Notes: This response was an idea from Amanda Dabney because it seemed very creative and different. This writing is a unique form of poetry called acrostic poetry, which is where the first letter of each line combine to spell out a phrase. During the reading of the chapter The Last Night the idea of each human is in theoretical terms a house. The house consists of hallways, doors, and windows all leading to different meanings.

Every person has dual personalities
Vanquishing a personality is impossible
Exposed to the eye are the brick walls of flesh
Revealing the windows of our thoughts
Years are necessary to keep the house functional

Hidden in the house are the hallways and numerous doors
United together by the structure of the walls
Most of the hallways lead to untold stories and secrets
A key is often necessary to unlock the doors
No other house or person has the same features

Inside the house the door is the entrance to the brain
Soul is also found behind the door leaking into the creaks in the floor boards

A crack in the window helps different perceptions be made

Hidden behind the doors lie the structure of what makes a person
Opening the doors may lead to unwanted natures
Utilizing these natures may lead to the true devil inside
Setting on fire a person’s wholly good and leaving them wanting more
Eventually the house burns down and all to be left is the devil snickering

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Double Meaning

Author's Notes: I wrote a poem about Jekyll and Hyde being the same person. Both resembling humans, that everyone has a good and bad side. No matter how much a person strives to be wholly good, it is impossible because the inner evil will come out sometime.

Hiding behind the masks
Everyone wonders but no one asks
The strange thoughts come and pass
Evil would bring out its own sass
Angels carry the shine to believe
What kind of man could achieve
The unthinkable act of two
Not knowing who is who
One side good and one side evil
Duality painting on a blank easel
Wholly good will never succeed
Due to the devil’s required need

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Smile Sunshine

Author's Notes: I wrote this short story about my father and I's relationship. Throughout all of the hard times we have gone through our relationship is finally starting to come back together.

I am a young fifteen year old girl blinded by my inner demons. I give people too many chances in life, far too many being granted to what some may call a father. This man in my life is an alcoholic and ever since he was remarried I never matter to him. No matter how many times he would be the cruelest person on this earth I always find a way to forgive him. Fifteen years ago I was adopted by this man and my mother. Throughout the course of my life, both split up multiple times but only coming back for me. Around the age of eight there was a full divorce splitting the two up forever, taking my heart and feelings with it. As my life went on I got the mentality of not being good enough for anyone, and I do not know if those evil thoughts will ever leave my mind. Soon, this man was remarried and my mom and I would somehow start our best friend relationship. Over the course of five years, this man slowly let go of me, as if I were a narcotic that rehab was pulling him away from.

On a snowy morning my mother allowed me to go to Kentucky with the girls. I packed my bags and smiled proudly at life ahead me. I took my steps into the future wanting to forget the past. One cynical man found a way to ruin happiness though, my father. On my way to a glorious vacation, I received a malicious text message. The message contained data of his words stating how horrible of a child I was, and how he did not want to be my father anymore. As with friends, I tried my best to brush the feelings forced upon me but, deep down my heart was falling apart piece by piece. Before this message had been sent multiple thoughts were racing through his brain. Finding out his daughter left for another state through her cheer team at a basketball game was one of the worst feelings in the world. This man stabbed alive. His baby girl was growing up rapidly, and he was not there to view and participate in any of the activities. Before the message, he also had a few too many drinks as well somehow making it seem this message was OK to send. Life was slowly being drained from him and lashing out was the only idea he thought was right.

He reminisced all the wondrous moments we spent together. Watching his new born baby blink with the most innocent eyes in the world, remembering his daughter stand up and attempt to walk for the first time, and having his daughter graduate kindergarten all ran through his mind. The thoughts just kept rolling, as if it were a scratched tape repeating itself. He remembered his daughter run up in to his arms and say, “Daddy, I love you,” and not hearing any of those words were devastating. All of her child years were the most important to him. Those were the times he was actually living the moments with me. When his wife tried to say, “Dave, everything is going to be fine,” he immediately shouted back, “NO, my daughter is too young to be travelling without me”. He did not want to come to the census of his own daughter growing up because he was not there for her as much as he wanted to be. Around midday he was confused, calmer, cheerless. He would do anything to receive his one and only child back into his life. This man acted as if his daughter was still in the state and he never did anything wrong.

Unknowing of what was to come, when I arrived home, I went to this man’s house to talk. Discouraged and slightly held back I still went in with a positive outlook. The demons inside pushed me to think one more chance would not hurt anyone. As I rang the door bell I saw a figure come to the door. Torn baseball cap, mahogany Docs, and his favorite football team apparel, this man slowly teeters open the door nervous for what was about to happen. Both of us braced ourselves for a discussion that would be the easiest to come in their life span. We looked into each other’s eyes and watched every moment between us, and soon the frame was distorted. It started to turn foggy and hazy; both of us had tears streaming down our face. Both realizing the mistakes we had made, wishing it could all be erased, I ran into his arms like a little child, and said, “Daddy, I love you”.

Mimic Lines from, An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge:
·         He unclosed his eyes and saw again the water below him
·         The sergeant stepped aside
·         By nightfall he was fatigued, footsore, famishing