SARON ADDISU: HELP FOR HELP
POLISHED POEMS
WHAT FOR POEM
At 9 I lived for dancing
How a part of your body
Can move in different ways
And make different shapes
How on part of your body can do something and another can do something
How a beat drops and you follow the rhythm like the sea follows the airs rhythm.
I lived for traveling
On the foggy mist air
In between the clouds
Spinning in the clouds like those army jets
Thinking of how people fly those things.
wishing I was better
making planes with pillow pretending like we were pilots.
I lived for the sea,
Shore and the blue sky
Water reflecting the sky’s color
Hearing the splash against the beach sand
And sitting on the wet air
Sharing a laugh about crazy thing we did
Taking pictures for the gram
Trying to get the perfect video for snap chat
Racing to see the small animals in the sea
I lived for the rain
We would always call each other when we saw the clouds gathering around
We would tell our parents we won’t get wet but once we got out no one would stop us
Splashing the puddles till our pants got soaked and our hair got frizzy
Chasing each other from one side and to the other
Splashing each other till on of s cried.
But even if we did all these thing then
People will say this is not the writing things to do
But we don’t care about what people say
We still run around the rain splashing around and still took pictures
We make each second count by traveling for making cool thing
Dance to the trend song and create our own
No one stopped us then and no one will stop us ever
NOTHING EVERYTHING POEM
Did you clean your room.
Definitely. I wanted to make you proud so I did all our
laundry and clean my room as well as the bathroom.
Of course not. I was tired so I took a bath bomb bath.
And had a crazy dance party in my room with a “couple” of friends.
The kitchen was a mess we were gonna clean up but we got tired.
Definitely. I also made new DIY’s from YouTube and decorated the house.
I also got new bed sheets and gave my room space for dancing and gymnastics.
But I needed permission to change up the whole house.
Of course not. I had to finish 15 episodes of the flash.
And download music from Spotify.
I also got concert tickets for the new boy band.
DID I DO ANYTHING
Nothing. when you saw me suffer and cry
You just pretended I was no one and walked away
like a stranger
Everything. Instead of stopping yourself
and helping me you joined them to see what they do
And make it look natural and okk
Nothing. no of the people will actually be your friends
You just wanted to fit in to be called one of the cool people
But you didn’t realize they were hurting you more than you helped them.
Everything. Even when I gave you a sing you ignored it but knew what was happening.
Some broke our spirit, some broke our heart but some broke our soul
and you were helping them. You could have chosen to be a better
person but devotedly weren’t.
Nothing. When people turned their backs you needed some on.
I was there for you but you kept going away I tried to love you
But haha NO.
Everything. Nothing happens when you were there. You just look at me not helping me
but that didn’t affect me. How can anything occur when you are there.
But I got hurt and you didn’t help me.
That was why I looked up to you some you can have my back
But you weren’t there
The one time I needed you.
Slam poem
A big curse to human life
Prevails the human
Starvation privation depletion abjection just because of it.
People dying on streets but we say nothing wishing this doesn’t happen to us
Instead of giving them food or helping them we roll our eyes and just turn our backs.
Necessitous of a person unsatisfied and no one looks out for them
Constantly moving from one place to another making each step count
They look for food places you wouldn’t
Wealthy people gormandizing and not giving anything to help
Wonder what they would do if they were in your position.
Something that man made
Going without food for day or months
Not having close to wear after you have shower
And that is even if you have shower
Diseases attacking the body
They didn’t know what to do
Couldn’t find cures or medicine
At least if we helped each other this wouldn’t happen
Passing a crying lady because you’re embarrassed to be seen helping.
People only care about the trends and fashion.
People say love is important but there just saying it not applying it.
If they loved poverty wouldn’t be a word .
But people ignore what they need to help and help what already has help.
11.3 percent of the world hungry
Many people sleep hungry at night
But wealthy people eat dinner about twice
If you would give half of your meal to one hungry person imagine the blessings you get
But we chose to ignore it
Give some and get some
That way poverty will be gone
REFLECTION
Working on my poem was good because we were creating our own story and expressing how we feel. I think my poem are good I say this because of the figurative language I used also the creativity that I had to use and put in the poem.
The first drafts were really not from my head I just wrote them down and that is one thing I would improve on: thinking of what to write, writing ideas, writing the word I would use and think of big word. One the first draft that I developed (what for poem and nothing everything poem) I had to change some of the small word to complicated words. So in my poem I would say it revising made my poem better. Including correcting the words and adding a little bit of humor in it and correcting the grammar.
When I was writing my poem there were some difficulties: finding a good descriptive word for some word because with smaller word the poem would just be a nursery rhyme, another thing is finding good content (topic) was hard because when you share ideas with your friends and talk about what you do they might be doing the same thing so you might be like I want an original work so I will change it. for my polished poems I didn’t have to revise as much because if I polished to much it would be really bad.
When I wrote my poems one thing that I have learned was using correct grammar from the beginning instead of revising a lot of time. Also another thing is when you write a poem digits as soon as you finish because if you do you work and don’t digits you might forget to put your poem one the website.
FIRST DRAFTS
