Research Project

For my research project I want to research the valley of the kings which I found out about while researching the head of Augustus, I was curious so I did some research but then thought I could use it for a later project so this seems to be the project.

Feed the Fish

Video

Poetry reading

I think it is an essential part of poetry to read you poems to others so that they can understand you ideas in a fun and desirable way. This is the link to my poetry video http://youtu.be/IYtbKDQIPBo?sc

Life is Fine poem

I went down to the river,
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.

I came up once and hollered!
I came up twice and cried!
If that water hadn't a-been so cold
I might've sunk and died.

But it was Cold in that water! It was cold!

I took the elevator
Sixteen floors above the ground.
I thought about my baby
And thought I would jump down.

I stood there and I hollered!
I stood there and I cried!
If it hadn't a-been so high
I might've jumped and died.

But it was High up there! It was high!

So since I'm still here livin',
I guess I will live on.
I could've died for love--
But for livin' I was born

Though you may hear me holler,
And you may see me cry--
I'll be dogged, sweet baby,
If you gonna see me die.

Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine! 

Life is fine reflection

Life is fine by Langston Hughes is a poem with a lot of imagery and rhythm. In the poem he talks about drowning in a river and jumping off a building but he can't because life is too fine to waste. I like this poem because it has a large beat and kind of sounds like a song, it's also a poem about life being good and I think life is good also so I think I can connect a little. This is probably my favorite poem right now because I like reading it over and over due to its song like qualities. From this poem I mainly figured out that poetry is better when you have good ideas, if you have a good idea and want to write a poem about it then it will be a better poem then if you just wrote something random that rhymed. Writing about ideas makes a poem a lot better.

Improved all things have good poem

Staying up till the warm sunlight
Saw a sunset and rise in the same day
Fire burning down the fair
There's room for new roller coasters
All things have good

Trees crashing from the flashing light
New growth has a greater chance
Gazelle bounding away from a cheetah
The cheetah won't starve
All things have good

Slipping down the stairs
Warn dad so he doesn't
Blue books missing white pages
Some lucky person has the sheets
All things have good

Cold snow keeps you inside
It's a winter wonderland
All things have good
But all things have bad

Mission Statement

I want to expirience everything: Being happy, sad, poor, courageous, daring, rich, leading, following, and many more things. I want to be the person who everybody looks to when they need help. I want to have done everything by the time I'm old, from hang gliding to running a business. I want to have a lot of fun in my life, but if I need to work in order to have fun, then I will work as much as is needed to do these things. I want to master at least three additional things on top of Spanish, Snowboarding, and Soccer. I want to make lots of money but that's only because I want to be able to do the things I want to do and have no roadblocks. The goal of my life is to have fun and be everything.