Words

Words

Papers and Poems, Piled high like Mountains. Climbing to the top, brushing against meaningless words, And reaching the summit of words, The core of my ideas.

The strongest of my ideas, Thronged together, Often rolling down the mountain, Directly into my thoughts, An avalanche of meaning.

Serious, The word that say too often, Trying to distinquish to others, Of what which I say is true, And of what I say that is sarcastic.

Global Warming, The destruction of our planet, And the stories of my parents, When they first arrived in Hawaii, Alone, and trying to survive.

Words like realize, normal, wonder, and know.

And when you realize, That normal words that we use everyday, Are the words that define who we our, You begin to wonder, And start to know who you really are.

For each piece you include in your portfolio, choose and answer at least two of the following questions:

1. What big ideas of English I do you see in this piece? What does it have to say about those ideas? Do you still think this? How have your ideas changed?

I believe that in this poem, we were required to write about the topic of words. We chose a few words that we wanted to represent, and we had to write about them. The big ideas in this poem were voice, identity, experimenting, and creativity. My poem shows this because the words that we chose represent me, and the poem itself represents what I believe in. Also, creativity is something that every single written work in the world must have in order to be successful. Without originality, which created by creativity, the piece is dull and senseless. In this piece, my ideas have never changed, it remains the same still. I still believe in what, and how I wrote this poem.

3. How did you complete this piece of work? What was the assignment? What did you want to create? What were the steps you took to complete it? And did it come out the way you intended?

I started this piece out in class when Mr. Watson asked us to write a few words down. The assignment was to create a poem using these words, and to use these ideas to express ourselves. In this poem, I put in things that I care about, such as global warming. Also, I tried to make it so that there would be some metaphoric meaning, such as the last line, where all of the words I chose are used, while they still spell out what I believe in. I wanted to make a connection between everything to show that everything in the world is connected. This work came out exactly like I planned it. When I started planning it, I just started to play around with the words. I thought about what I could write about, and just started writing.