Daily Flash

As he slipped on the banana peel, his only thought was, "Oh, no, not again."

9/9/10 Response

We were read a short story and then told to write whatever came into our heads.

All is dark.
Not a whisper,
Not a movement,
Not a sound.
The thick gray blanket covers all.
Choking.
Smothering.
Destroying.
From far away, something stirs.
A soft white wing bursts through.
Doleful tweeting breaks the darkness.
Shivering.
Struggling.
Fighting.
The small bird rises from the ash,
Gray flecks cling to its head.
A single cry fills the air.
Only silence greets it.
The bird takes flight.
A flurry of feathers.
A string of song.
Moonlight glints of the white wing,
And the bird is gone.
Gray clouds cover the moon.
And all is dark.

9/7/10 Poem

Ms Sides read us two poems and then had us write one of our own.

The world offers itself to you.
It is wide and wonderful.
It presents challenges.
Challenges bring pain,
But after the pain comes joy,
And with the show comes sunshine.
The sunshine gives way to clouds,
The clouds bring rain.
The rain foretells challenges,
And the cycle begins again.
Round and round the world goes.
Every day,
Something new,
The good and the bad.
Without one we would not know the other.
Dark and light,
Pain and relief,
Sorrow and joy,
All working together in harmony.

Erasure Poem

On Tuesday we made these "erasure" poems. We took this article and had to use only those words in that order to create a poem, blacking out anything we didn't use. This is what I ended up having left.


There is power in words.
A brilliant example begins "I can"
Another is trapped in haunting fragments.
The shifting fields of our loss and balance change
Heavy black lines remain.
New words float down in clouds
At the time of the uncertainties of this world.
More emerges.

A fledgling is developing.
Anyone can.
There is hope in all.

A Good List

Characters

First there's blue-eyed Neal Caffrey with his brilliant mind,
his confidant Mozzie holds mysteries untold.
Agent Peter Burke gets them out of a bind
and he'll never leave a man behind;
he has a heart of gold.

Juliet O'Hara is smart and pretty,
her partner Carlton can be a grouch.
Shawn Spencer's remarks are often witty,
and his best friend Gus has a little girl kitty
who likes to shed on the couch.

Leonard McCoy is a doctor in space,
he's gruff but a very good friend.
James T. Kirk can flirt with grace,
Chekov's brain could win a race.
Spock always comes through in the end.

Ford Prefect knows where is towel is,
and he's totally one hoopy frood.
Marvin the robot's a computing whiz,
Zaphod Beeblebrox is in the criminal 'biz.
Arthur Dent thinks tea is good.

Professor Moriarty came from Conan Doyle,
he's evil and unfortunately bright.
Doctor John Watson is unfailingly loyal,
Sherlock Holmes is hard to foil,
and in the end he's always right.