In class haiku

topic - mom

Comfty orange sweater
Smells of Chanel perfume
Always there to comfort

Warm and inviting like fresh baked cookies
Scents of home and happiness
Ready with a hug when you need it

My Poems

I'm not really a big fan of poems so it was slightly hard for me to find some I like, just because I really can't relate to the way these writers seem to put there feelings on paper. Two poems that I did like are When a Woman Loves a Man and Couple Sharing a Peach. When a Woman Loves a Man by: David Lehman is a little longer than I would have liked and some parts seemed kinda random and pointless but I liked all the cutesy things in this poem like:

"And when she says, “I’ll never speak to you again,”
she means, “Put your arms around me from behind
as I stand disconsolate at the window.”

To me, it seems like the author wrote this poem late one night while watching his lover sleep or while missing her. It shows some of the rough times when they have fought and broken up but that doesn't even seem to be that big major of a thing. It's more about the little things.

The second poem Couple Sharing a Peach by Molly Peacock was also about relationships although you might not really know that unless you found it under the relationship section like I did. I do like the part:

Two happinesses unfold
from one joy

In the end when the author writes:

In a hotel room
Our moment lies
With it’s ode inside,
a red tinge,
with a hinge.

This makes me think that the love they have just experiences is forbidden in one way or another. Either they are young and shouldn't be doing the things they are doing or they both are with other people.

Linda Pastan- Marks

This poem is really interesting to me. It seems like alot of the poems we have been reading have to do with parents. This one is intersting to me because it made me think that our moms are people too. They have feelings and lives of there own. Although they do like to spend there time making sure there kids are safe and happy, they are not always perfect and can't do everything at all times. Like this poem hints at, they are not here to grade or fail, they do there best and thats great. Because someone people have mothers who aren't alive or don't care about putting food on the table or how great there ironing is. So just having a mother around who loves you and cares should be all they need for a passing grade.

Marge Piercy- Barbie Doll

Struck with confusion,
Confused why a child would.
Yet understanding,
Understanding why,
Why a child would feel this way.
The way the pressures pile up,
Pile up until it crushes you,
Crushing you believe your nothing,
Nothing if your not perfect.

I've never really tried to write a poem before because I'm really not that creative but here was my attempt. I guess it's a little easier to do it if you have something to kinda look at for inspiration.

Aphra Behn- On Her Loving Two Equally

This poem kinda seemed like a mother talking about her two children. In the part when she says "When my Alexis present is, Then I for Damon sigh and mourn" I feel like she's saying that when just one of her children is around she just things about the other. Maybe thats not how all parents are but thats how it seems with my mom. When ever I'm home she seems to talk about my brother all the time and always be thinking of him. I've come to the conclusion that it's not because she loves him better but because when I'm with her she knows I'm safe and happy and he's not around so she wonders. I believe that this lady feels the same way because in the end she says "But which, O Cupid, wilt thou take? If Damon's, all my hopes are crossed; Or that of my Alexis, I am lost."

The Glass Castle

I'm reading the book The Glass Castle. This is probably one of the first books I've had to read in a class that I actually like and it's not like pulling teeth to get through it.

That makes me question what qualities need to be there to make a story or a book enjoyable? I used to think that it was being able to relate to the story but clearly thats not true with this story. I have never been in any situation even relatively close to the things that this women has gone through and I'm pretty sure that no one I know has gone through things like this.

So maybe what makes a story likeable is when it shows you something that you've never seen before. But thats can't be the case because every story we have read from the Norton has been slighty boring and hard to get through at times and they all presented things I've never dealt with.

This leaves me to believe that maybe it has nothing to do with what the bookis about and really about how the author writes the story. So then, is there ever really a good story, or just good authors?

Wikipedia defines non-fiction as "an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question. However, it is generally assumed that the authors of such accounts believe them to be truthful at the time of their composition."

This defination goes a little more in dept of what I thought non-fiction really was. I always just thought it was true. Like fiction is a made believe story, I thought that non-fiction was a re-telling of something that really had happened. Almost like a newspaper article or a biography only about an event instead of about a person.