IT Emergency lesson 3

The poet is thinking back on his primary school days and missing those days. He remember all about his primary school life. Recalling his younger days make the poet feel sad that those days were over. Those were the days where he and his friend do things, good or bad, together. I, too, miss my primary school days. I remember eating and playing with my closest group of friends, and making teachers mad at us, all for the sake of fun. But our teachers know that we don't mean bad, just being mischievous. So I've created a poem on Primary school life. Enjoy!

Primary school days
Aren't like hay.
They ain't so dry
But quickly went by.

We played together,
and ate together.
We loved the laksa,
but not the salsa. (I'm referring to the sauce, not the dance!)

We made teachers mad
By being oh so bad.
The scolding was worth,
cause we've got her nerve.

Primary school days
Aren't like hay.
They ain't so dry
But quickly went by.

IT Home Learning Emergency 2

I choose to write about a poet, whose pen-name is NightFlyer. He writes on a website which is like a club where they share poems written by the members. His real name is not known. NightFlyer is a 53 year old male who lives in USA, Massachusetts. He has written 72 poems. Little else is known about him.
I chose this poet as his poems are full of feelings. Just by reading his poems, the reader can really feel the same way the poet was feeling when he wrote the poems. He portrays loneliness and sadness excellently. Almost all his poems are about loneliness and sadness. This really shows the personality and feeling of the poet that I chose. It is also evident in his poems that he likes poetry a lot. Many of his poems also include the word poem in some way or another – writing about chances to write a poem.
He is like an underdog. He's poems are really good, and has won contests held by the club. Sadly, no famous poet recognizes his works. As a result, he has not been to any interview.
NightFlyer is known in the club, and has been awarded a very high score. He has been rated 4.9 out of 5. (The rating is the average rate out of the sixty-seven people who have rated him.) This shows that people have read and enjoyed his poems.
As his works are not recognised, I am not able to comment further on him and his works.

But, here are 3 of his poems that I like.

This Wretched Path
Branches move and sadly sway
Their farewell to this long day
Shadows over woodlands, creep
As this village drifts to sleep.

The sad song of a twilight loon
Greets the rising crescent moon
As sunset's crimson fades to black
For healing love, I feel a lack.

Far past the twilight's interlude
I pay the price for solitude
The night has rendered my dreams dark
So down these empty streets I walk.

Now toward my cabin, I retreat
As day to night passes complete
In evening's chill, its plainly shown
This wretched path, I walk alone.

This need for love, inside it drums
So cruel a sting when nightime comes
As loneliness inwardly maims
Another night, my heart, it claims.

Soon in my cabin, I'll recline
And pour a glass of bitter wine
And drift to sleep's merciful arms
To dream of some fair lover's charms.


The Freedom Of The Sea
Brave sailors who sailed distant seas
In ages, crossing Neptune's realm
Sweet treasure's call, their minds, it pleased
Through surging waves, they took the helm.

With sextants held neath silver stars
They plied swift currents in the breeze
And sailed their ships to islands far
Past harbor lights and port cities.

For what rich treasures spurred their quests
For gold or silver, were they sent
With wanderlust that never rests
To ends of earth they gladly went.

But give me treasure that is real
The chance to write some poetry
On swirling waves, this heart will heal
And feel the freedom of the sea.

Don't want to stay here anymore
And drown in my uncertainties
I'd rather hear the ocean's roar
And see Gibraltar's majesty.

And know that I shall join someday
Those ancient mariners of yore
And reach that land so far away
Elysium's enchanted shore.


Pathways Of The Mind
A mystic path winds through my mind
Of misty gold, its trees sublime
Where heaven's winds caress the fields
A Summer dreamscape so surreal
And it spurs me to venture on
To emerald depths of Avalon
Where music dances on the breeze
And magic swirls amidst the trees
More blissful realms, I'll never find
These dreamy pathways of the mind.

Emergency IT Lesson 1: Figurative Language

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore**,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand--
How few! yet how they (sand) creep**
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep--while I weep!*
O God!* can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God!* can I not save
One from the pitiless wave**?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

*Hyperbole

The repetition of ' While I weep, while I weep' and 'O God', shows and emphasizes on his feelings – the sadness and desperateness.

**Personification

The poet writes that the shore has been tormented by the waves. By giving something that does bit have feelings feelings, it is a example of personification. Another example is the ' pitiless waves'. The poet tries to bring out the feeling that the waves are brutal and unrelenting, to show that it is a difficult task to overpower and 'win' the waves.

(p.s. the others are not in the content of the poem)

I like this poem not because there are only 2 points that are present in the poem, but because the poem flows nicely like a story. Its is really easy to understand, and is not like the other poems which are abstract at times. I also like the personification of the poem. It is meaningful and it effectively bring forth the point that the poet is trying to express.