Cool+Toe

This piece is called a sestina and it is a certain pattern that you must use for the last word of each line. We did this toward the beginning of the second semester.

Cool Toe By: Colby Yamamoto

So here's a story about my toe This story can be a little silly, But will always make you smile. The story is about how two colors clashed. A battle, very distinguished It's gonna get hot, so I suggest you keep cool:

The morning air was cool As the breeze was soothing through my toe At the same time, feeling distinguished And of course, looked silly The colors, pink and tan, clashed Just looking at that made me smile

And this was a peculiar smile One that is warm, yet cool Like how pink and tan clashed The colors amongst my toe. This may sound very silly But hopefully, a little distinguished

Now, I look at the distinguished Body part, and I do not have a smile Upon my face. This matter was not silly The late-morning air was not cool Through my toe I was too busy to notice anything except pink and tan clashed

The intense battle, hours on end clashed Until one color stood, distinguished Just that one color, amongst my toe But that one color could not make me smile No, that was so not cool But rather silly

Just pink, or just tan, that is really silly One means individual, one color is not a distinguished Color and does not make people think that that is a cool Way for one color to have not clashed With another. This will surely not make you smile. And surely not my toe

So once again my toe, looking very weird/silly Will always make me smile as pink and tan clashed To make it look distinguished, as well as cool.

2. I incorperated voice, creativity, and added a little "spice" to it. I acheived these elements of quality by just playing around with the words given to me and finding new and creative meanings and ways on how to use the word in a poem. It was a way to mess up but it won't matter because sestinas are unique all up to the writer, as well as any piece anyone creates. I had fun with this piece and the fact that it wasn't worth THAT much for a grade, was another chance to not worry and let the words flow from my brain on to paper. The fact that we HAD to use the words in the pattern, it was kind of hard to find the correct words to put in the lines to make it make sense to me as well as to my audience.

1. I see voice, creativity, and fun to the piece. It says that the piece is easy to work with but it has a little hint of difficulty to it. At the time it was difficult knowing that we have a due date and we have to finish it with the correct word pattern. Now, however, I think it was actually very easy for the assignment. If i were to do it again, i would have even more things to say and be more creative since i can be even more chill with it and let it flow.