My hair...................................Poetry Q3
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I really like this poem because it starts of with a silly girl talking about her hair and it deceives you into thinking it’s a shallow and stupid poem but then in the end there’s a huge plot twist and it changes your whole perspective on what you just read. I first wrote this piece a few weeks ago when I decided I wanted to do a piece about hair out of the blue. In my first attempt I tried writing a long story but I just didn’t like it and felt that it was forced so I deleted the whole thing. Later, when I found out that I didn’t have enough poems for my portfolio I decided to write some and try out using hair to be the theme for one. I was surprised at how simple yet good it was and how easily I had written it. This was the only piece that I didn’t change after asking my friends to look at it because everyone and i liked it how it was and didn’t want to change it. I think this piece really affects the perspective of the reader and it’s about how you can’t judge a person based on how they act or what they say if you don’t know them and what they’ve been through. “I chew my hair when I’m nervous, sad or scared. I bite it when I’m frightened. And when my parents get mad at me for not eating my food I yank it. “ These are the first three lines of my poem. I like them because they rhyme and sound good together and also because are the first thing you read and form your idea of what you think the poem is going to be like. I don’t find anything wrong with this poem and don't wish to edit it.
Mother Nature’s Death.....................Poetry Q3
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This piece first started off as a prompt goal to write about nature. I knew starting out that I wanted to talk about pollution, global warming and the things humanity has done to kill our planet and ourselves. This piece started off pretty boring and halfway through I decided that I owed it to my planet to write about it in a way that at least I was happy with. Thus, I decided to combine the aspects of Earth and pollution with a maternal figure in order to empathize the Earth's beauty, compassion and how ungrateful and horrible we have been to it. I’m very pleased with this piece since I found it to be very poetic in the way that it talks about our relationship with the Earth and the viewpoint from which I wrote it. A quote which I liked because it expresses very strong maternal feeling is; “Even as we desecrate her she smiles down at us, but this time with a certain hint of
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