Banana

Wrote this in my 9 a.m. class today.  I kinda feel like I should've just stopped after the first part, but meh, whatever.


The wind is blowing, cold as ice

A fire glowing would be nice

Oh how I hate this walk to class

As all the students freeze en masse

I wish they would turn on the heat

But I guess that’s too great a feat.

Here I sit all bundled up

Sipping hot chocolate in a cup

Can’t they cancel class for cold?

Skipping is not good, I’m told

Maybe it will start to snow

That makes it worth it, don’t you know?

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--I've been wanting to try my hand at limericks, so here are my first two.  Apparently limericks are supposed to be funny...don't think I quite accomplished that, and the 2nd one is 3 stresses in the first line only if you pronounce it a certain way...oh well.  They're fun to mess around with.

Limerick #1 - Fred

There once was a poet named Fred
Who liked to hum rhymes in his head
Then one day he found
With a thought most profound
That he was a singer instead

Limerick #2

Of the liberal who for president ran
Johnny was not a big fan
To be gay is a sin
He with uplifted chin
Said, and then fell in love with a man

--This next one (not a limerick) I actually started last semester in my statistics class (though I actually got the idea during riding), and just now got around to finishing it.  It's a little odd, but I like the rhyming.  :)

Tick Tock

Tick tock
Life goes by
Hands on the clock
People run awry

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Will catch up on comments later, but for now...

HAPPY (belated) EARTH DAY!!!

Random Facts of the Day: Martin Sheen



-birth name: Ramon Antonio Gerard Estevez

-father of Emilio Estevez (the jock in The Breakfast Club)

-Purposely flunked his college entrance exam to the University of Dayton so that he could pursue an acting career instead.

-Was arrested over 70 times mainly for liberal protests.

( read more--seriously, this guy is so interesting! )

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NaPoWriMo #22

Being stressed
Is like being blessed
With a bath of mud
Or a sudden flash flood
All this work
I’d never shirk
Unless I found something better to do
Like tying my shoe or watching cows chew
Oh how I love school
I think it’s as cool
As a guy in a skirt
Or a nerd who’s a flirt
Well I guess now oh damn
I’d better go cram
Woohoo, how fun...
As soon as I’m done.

(No offense intended, btw; I just wrote what kinda fit and managed to rhyme at the same time. Not necessarily my real views.)

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I've still been writing poems every day, but been too lazy to post them. These are all haikus.

Which one do you like the most? I think my fav is #13 coz it seems to flow really well.


Eleven

Went running today
Wasn’t great, but did okay
Hope on track I’ll stay

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Twelve

Jennifer Garner
Oh my gosh, how I love her
Fab actress; charmer

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Thirteen

Weekends pass so fast
The hours and minutes just
Never seem to last

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Fourteen

Finals coming up
Should be studying but I’m
Watchin’ TV; yup.

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This is the poem I wrote for my Spanish class. I know it's not great because I did it really really last minute (I was actually like 10 minutes late to class). I did manage to make it rhyme, tho. Yay! That was hard.


Andar en Caballo

Cuando ando en caballo,
Sea como una montaña rusa,
Con una diferencia…
Me gusta andar en caballo.

Es increíble que algo tan simple,
Pueda ser tan divertido.
Y aunque a veces es un poco difícil,
Al mismo tiempo, siempre es agradable.

Imagine volando,
Corriendo,
Una sonrisa en la cara,
Y el viento soplando.

( más )

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Here it is in English if you're interested. It's not quite the same, tho, since it's translated.

Horseback riding

When I go horseback riding,
It’s like a rollercoaster,
With one difference…
I like horseback riding.

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I figured y'all probably wouldn't want to read my 8-page research paper, so here's a poem to summarize it:

A pseudonym is but a name
It may protect, or bring you fame
Used by writers now and then
Any time there’s been a pen
For women, male names are a shield
In a typically male field
Science, meds, and politics
Aren’t considered jobs for chicks
Better than it used to be
But still plenty we don’t see
Publishers thought boys wouldn’t pay
Joanne Rowling became J.K.
Someone may want to seem poor
Or one name can stand for more
George Orwell changed from Eric Blair
Dear Abby’s writers make a pair
Who’d read romance by a man?
Gender swap to keep a fan
And if at first you don’t succeed
A nom de plume is all you need

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