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Write a brief poem reviewing a book or movie you have read or seen.
One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Jen
I really wanted to like New Moon.
But with all the whining
Teen angst
All the "hole in the heart" stuff
I've never wanted to punch
A girl in the face
So bad.
Think I'll pass on the movie.
(Ummm... yay. Not very poetic, but... yeah. That's what you get in a minute. Pretty much sums it up. :))
Congratulations, Jen! Hey, it may not be Walt Whitman, but it's funny which makes it worthy of a win in my book! Feel free to put a One-Minute Writer WINNER! button on your blog!
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
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It Sucked and Then I Cried
A book by Heather Armstrong
Helped me understand
What I am feeling is not wrong
Her perspective and humor
Mirrors my own
She is my writing soul mate
When I read her I’m never alone
I laughed and I cried
and was sad when the pages came to an end
If you want a book to read
This is the one I would recommend
DUNE is a sci-fi book
About prescience, worms, & spice
It's worth taking a look
You, too, might find it quite nice.
Robert Whitlow wrote a novel about a boy whose name is Jimmy.
Jimmy was an unusual sort
Everything he heard he would report
A Criminal was part of Jimmy's Speech that one day,
And all of that set the story in play.
The story was intriguing
The outcome depressing,
Whitlow fans were so outspoken
The ending had to be broken.
Whitlow took up his pen and with some bending,
He gave Jimmmy another ending.
East of Eden
Steinbeck Amazing
Cain, Abel, heartbreaking, yes
Father forgiveness
2 ugly sisters
1 young maid
in the kitchen
there she stayed
then the mother
with the wand
brought her love
until the beyond
Confessions of a Shopaholic
wasn't very funny.
Good thing it was a rental -
what a waste of money!
Latest book I read,
Summer People- Brian Groh
I didn't love it.
“Memento”
The front is the end,
That’s where you begin.
For one step forward, take one step back.
I’ve lost my mind with this movie “Memento”
To truly follow and watch the plot’s attack,
Grab the remote rewind, and scream ”Uno Momento
This is Just to Say
I check out
the book
Beyond Style: Mastering
the Finer Points of Writing
and which
someone was probably
searching for
to write a book
Forgive me
it was delicious
so sweet
and well told
(with apologies to William Carlos Williams
It spun my emotions
like a top
not unlike the
lace
that hid her past
but made her
see
her future
she was
afterall
"The Lace Reader"
The Time Traveler's Wife (book, not movie)
So romantic it hurts.
If you never read this book,
Never experience its beauty,
I'm so sad for you.
(Not really a poem, but I wasn't feeling very poetic.)
When I was Puerto Rican
is the name of the book
One look at the cover is all it took
to know that this memoir would
reveal
the life of a young girl was
no one's to steal
Okay, not quite poetic and the last line makes no sense. But I did it in a minute.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
in a war torn country
amongst a thousand suns
two women become mothers
and find within each other
kindred spirits
a testament to a women's strength
and a mother's love
laila and mariam are bonded
by marriage
to a man
who compares them
to makes of cars
laila bears two children
mariam bears none,
but in the end
mariam makes a mother's sacrifice:
she is executed by the hand of
the Koran
and the men who interpret it,
so laila's children
could grow to see an Afghanistan
without soviets
without taliban
with peace.
I -invincible
N -novelty
K -karma
H -heartfelt
E -endless
A -adventure
R -reader in a
T -trance
I really wanted to like New Moon.
But with all the whining
Teen angst
All the "hole in the heart" stuff
I've never wanted to punch
A girl in the face
So bad.
Think I'll pass on the movie.
(Ummm... yay. Not very poetic, but... yeah. That's what you get in a minute. Pretty much sums it up. :))
omg, I'm a winner? Wow! Thanks! I'll wear my button with pride for my stupid New Moon poem *does a little dance* :D
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