What are poems? Yes, they are small pieces of writing. True, they are totally awesome! This poem explains what poems are.

Poems

Are like glimpses of miniature beauty

Poems

Are much more than words

They are captured moments of true meaning and emotion

To be read artistically and to inspire the reader

Poems

Are millions of little feelings

Made to be read emotionally

Poems

Aren’t meant to be explained

They are meant to be felt

Do you write poems? What kind of poems do you like to read? What is your definition of a poem? Please, share your poems.

This poem is about never letting the dark consume you — or giving up on hope. So this is like the opposite of my other poem, “Hope” And yes, Ms. Smith, if you like you could put this on “Huzzah!”. So basically, never let despair take over your life.

Despair

Alone in an alley

Dim lights hover above

A silhouette darts through the narrow passages

And began to pursue me

The sound of the claws hitting the ground echoes throughout

The creature glances at me

And corners me at a dead end

This beast whispers it’s name in my ear —

“Despair”

This is my 40th post. I’ve written 39, fantastic posts  To get into the mood that this is my 40th post, I put up the links to make a gallery of all of the posts I have written to date (obviously not including this one). Take a look at some of them.

• Hope – A poem I wrote — some people think it symbolizes Haiti and that all of the Haitians should hold on to hope.
• A Poem I Wrote – What I think this poem is about is, the little things in life are so important, and people look to hard for them.
• What Blogging Means To Me – For some people, blogging is a worthless thing. I think blogging is an amazing tool.
• The City of Ember Series – A fantastic book series.
• Coraline – A creepy but brilliant book.
• New Years – What I did for New Years and New Years Eve.
• My Mini Elective Experience - A time of great enjoyment was when I was attending a mini elective session. Good times!
  Dreams – Encourages you to hold onto a dream.
• Christmas Acrostic – A fun type of poem I used to do in Grade Four.
  Our Wacky Gift Exchange – A fun gift exchange we did in our class.
• Christmas –  A really fun and special time of year.
• Thank you! – A short little post thanking people for my nomination for “The Best Student Blog 2009″.
• Molly – My wonderful dog Molly.
• Dust – A book by Arthur Slade.
• My Tree - A tree I climbed a lot.
• Alert Project – A project I did that involves your engine — your engine controls your emotions. You can be high, low, or just right. Click on the link to find out more!
• Reading - The thing I do that I enjoy doing the most!z
• Has It Finally Stopped Raining!? – “Have you ever seen the rain…” Well I sure have!
• When I Grow Up… - My future occupation!
• Moving Day - Ten days before we moved, I wrote a post about how excited I was.
• Diamante Poem - A cool type of poem!
• Bats - My favourite type of animal.
• Autumn - My favourite season!
• Count Out Three Activity - I randomly visited three blogs.
• Remember – That day was Remembrance Day so I wrote a kind of poem to represent the soldiers who died for our country.
• My Vacations - The three awesome vacations I’ve been on.
• Another Book Review!? - Another book review about a book called The Hunger Games.
• Flanders: A Soldier’s Life - Two poems I wrote about Remembrance Day.
• Webcast With Dr. Hawke – Our class was lucky enough to have a webcast with a real scientist!
• My Cat, Baby –  My maniac, weirdo cat.
• A Rainy Evening – With all this rain I came up with a poem.
• The Olympic Celebration – Our class got to see the Olympic Torch!
• Books I Reccomend – Two books I think you guys’d love.
• My Dog, Jake – THE BEST DOG EVER!
• Where in the World? – A post basically asking you where in the world you’d like to live.
• Halloween Candy – With Halloween coming up and such I asked what kind of candy you LOVE.
• Favourite Books – What books are your favourite?
• Seven Random Things About Me – The title says it all.

Which one of my posts did/do you like the best? If I had to choose, I’d say the post called Hope because hope is so important in someone’s life.

“40” by Leo Reynolds

I wrote another poem today — I hope you like it!  Unlike my other poem, this one has a title.

Hope

I sit in the dark

Waiting for something that will never come
As I stare into coal-black darkness
I  see the shadows dancing ominously
They sneer and cackle at me viciously

I heard the eerie silence speak to me
Luring me deeper into the empty abyss
Where I finally see a spark of light
That lit up the whole world

And everything became clear—
I was staring at hope.

I hope you guys liked it.

I wrote this poem a few days ago because I was really bored. Let me know what you think of this please!  If you have any advice how to change it, leave me a comment!

The lot of us have the pieces
That fit where we’d least suspect
Where the shards that vaguely reflect
Were split in every direction
Whom once projected light like a surge of electricity

***

The shattered mosaic of lost art
Will once again shine in pride
If we know where to look.

Thanks for listening

I know, I’ve already written a post on Huzzah! about how much I love blogging, but our class is creating a post on what blogging means to us, inspired by Daniel on the Bringing us together site. So here I go.

I admit, at first I wasn’t very fond of blogging, but then I started to discover its wonders. I could comment on a blog from the other side of the world, and they could share theirs. I could write posts about what I really loved doing—reading. Giving opinions on what books you should definitely read. Blogging is such a useful tool, like I said in my earlier post, every classroom should possess one!

Another perk of having an edublog is if you write a post and make a mistake, or just want to delete the post, you can just remove it from the page, and it will not be seen again until you choose for it to premiere again.

Today I have written thirty-seven posts total after this is published. I’d like to thank Mrs. Smith for making this all possible.

Another one of my all time favourite books are The City of Ember series by Jeanne DuPrau.  There are four books in the series in order; The City of Ember, The People of Sparks, The Prophet of Yonwood, and The Diamond of Darkhold. I don’t want to spoil the books for you, reader, so I’ll just tell you a bit about the first book, The City of Ember.

Lina Mayfleet and Doon Harrow are living in a dying city, named Ember.  Ember is a city that was built by the Builders, for unknown reasons. The city is completely dark— except for the city lights. If it weren’t for them— well, let’s just not think about it. The city is dying because there is a shortage of food, and the lights have been flickering, and having blackouts. It’s only a matter of time before the lights go out, and never come back on.

What I found about the Ember series was that in every book the author tells us we need to change our ways or else something similar to the catastrophe of mankind will happen to us. Another thing was that each event in the novel was placed carefully, just in the right place.

My favourite book of all the four would have to be the first one, The City of Ember, not that I don’t like the other three, but I just think the first one was more adventurous, and thrilling than the others.

I hope you decide to pick up The City of Ember because it really is a great book.

Coraline is the title of a book written by Neil Gaiman I’ve read over a year ago.  I really enjoyed reading it because it was ominous, mysterious and creepy.  Here is my quick summary of the book.
Coraline Jones is living a dull, boring life.
She tries to feed her curiosity by exploring the flat, visiting the neighbours, and annoying her parents, but she still craves excitement.
Everything about her life in her new life is a bore, until she finds the door in the Drawing Room. Inside? A bricked up wall that leads to another flat. But when she is alone and tries to open the door again, she discovers a dark hallway that leads into a duplicate neighbourhood similar to her own, except all of it’s citizens have black, round buttons for eyes. Everything in the other world is like a dream come true. Better food, better parents that pay more attention to you, and boredom practically doesn’t exist. She meets her other mother, and other father. They want to keep her there. Forever.

They say that the grass is always greener on the other side, but this side’s grass is only painted green. What I really liked about this book is that the author, Neil Gaiman, narrated the novel as if the protagonist was telling it herself. You, reader, should give it a try reading it. I convinced my Fifth Grade teacher to read it to the class, and everyone in the class really liked it. I’ve read it about three times and never got bored of it. The novel is very imaginitave, and creative. It is one of my favourite books.

On December 31, 2009, my parents and I were traveling to Victoria, where we would spend New Years Eve and New Years Day with my mom’s friend Rita, and their family and friends. We picked up Rita and Tom (Rita’s husband) and the long three-hour drive began. We arrived at Rita’s parents house, and had dinner. Oh, did I mention Rita’s parents are Portuguese? So  there was octopus, pig ears, and other very unfamiliar foods. It was very loud. Most of the guests went to go to some one’s house. Brian (my mom’s boyfriend), Tom, and Joe (Rita’s father) were playing dominoes. Noah (Rita’s sister’s son) and I were watching. Tom said I could pick the seven dominoes for him, and every time I did he won that round. Soon it was ten minutes until New Years, and we turned the television to the 2010 Countdown, and soon it was 2010! New Years!

Maria (Rita’s sister) said I could sleep over at her house. As soon as I lay on the hide-a-bed, their two pet budgies were making a lot of noise, so I didn’t fall asleep till about two in the morning. I woke up around 8:25am. As soon as Maria, Patrick (her boyfriend) and Noah woke up, they set up the Wii, so Noah and I could play on it. Maria was hosting a party at her house at 3:00pm so she was setting things up, making the food.

Soon enough it was party time and a lot of guests arrived. And when I say a lot, I mean a lot. We ate a lot of  food, and  talked. Brian announced he was going for a walk. But before I could say I wanted to come, he was out the door. Tom wanted to go, too so he too announced that he was going to go for a walk. It was so loud, I could hardly think. So I ran up to him and asked if I could come. He said sure, and suggested that we should try and track Brian down. We walked out the front door, and it was pouring rain. Great. Tom said that if Brian knew the area, which he did, he would go down to the boardwalk at Swan Lake, a swampy area. So off we went.

Tom and I walked, and then jogged a little bit. We got on to the boardwalk, and it began to rain even harder. We went through the swamp, and it was actually fun trying to track down Brian. We went to the lake part, and we saw Brian on the other side. We sprinted towards Brian, and soon we were up right behind him, but he turned to the right, so he saw us. But at least we caught him. Brian, Tom and I kept walking, and we came to a division in the trail. Tom said we should go that way, when Brian said we should go another. It was raining still, just as hard as before. Brian checked his GPS, and it said we should go the way he thought it was. We kept walking, and walking, and it became apparent that we were a little confused on which way to go.  About twenty minutes later, we were at Maria’s house, and I was drenched. My pants were soaking wet as well as my hair.

Before we knew it, it was time to make that long drive back home again. I was so tired, because I didn’t get much sleep last night thanks to those dumb birds. We got home, and I went to bed soon enough. It was a lot of fun, one of the best New Years Ever.