Okay, I know it's a little late but I've changed my mind about doing a literacy narrative and I would like to do a multigenre project on Wikispace :) I'm really excited but I'm stumped on a topic. I'm going to think about this really long and hard right now and by Monday I should have a few of my pages complete!

For our last multigenre project I plan to write a literacy narrative about my experience in this class over the course of the semester. At the beginning of the year I stated to the class that I really never read and I even mentioned that in our first blog. During our first class meeting, Erinn asked us all to name our five favorite books that we've ever read and I could only list three. One of my picks was the Bible because I used to be really involved in church but I've honestly never read the entire book. The other was a book that I had to read for my english class last semester. Now, listing my five favorite books would be no problem because I've read so many this semester.
Not only did I grow as a reader, but also as a writer. I hope to write a little about that, as well. Writing has always been something I was naturally good at but now I can write in several genres and it feels like I'm doing it correctly. I wrote poetry a lot during this class and I was always taught that poetry is something that rhymes but still has meaning. Now, I love writing in poetry and I actually discovered that the haiku aspect of poetry can actually be fun and I'm not terrible at it (I actually feel like I might be good at it). I will be discussing all of this in the paper and I'm looking forward to starting it soon.

List of Thoughts

Eww, No, Grapes, Texture, Strings, Purple, Spit, Anxiety.
Poems, Denver, Children, Proud, Nature, Difficult, Pressured.
Alone, Miserable, Mourning, African Gods-Kwoth, Heaven, Depressed.
Death, Dark, Struggle, Anger, Soon, End, Old, Knowledge, Hopeless.
Country, Superstition, Sadness, Coincidence, Age, Strange, Resentment.

I sing myself, and CELEBRATE myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every love belonging to me as good belongs to you.

I praise and invite my soul,
I praise and lean at my ease observing a piece of summer grass.

My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this air, this world,
Born here of parents born here from parents alike, and their
parents alike,
I, now eighteen years old in crumbling health begin,
Hoping to really live until death.

Creeds and schools in pity,
Thinking back a while ashamed at what they are, but never forgotten,
I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with life.

The six poems that I chose were Barbie Doll(619), Leaving the Motel(620), Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane(624), To a Daughter Leaving Home(663), Sex without Love(692), and At the Hospital (714). My two favorites are Barbie Doll and Sex without Love. I think that both of them discuss issues that are very important, especially in our society, today. Barbie Doll talks about perfection and plastic surgery based on other people's standards as you can see when she tells us what one classmate said about her and then what everyone else saw, as too (619). She finally achieved happiness when she cut off her nose and legs and died because everyone else finally viewed her as "pretty" (620). Sex without Love is about two people having a physical connection without the emotional attachment. It tells us about the authors morals and beliefs, which I feel are very similar to my own because I can't understand how people can do/handle that. She discusses"God","religion", and "priests" (692). She doesn't understand either (you can tell by the first line) because she opens with "How do they do it, the ones who make love without love?" (692). I would also like to mention At the Hospital because it is only two lines long but it is so powerful and I have a personal attachment to it since my mom had cancer and was in and out of the hospital 5 years ago. I think it means that until cancer strikes you or a loved one, you can't fully understand it. She says "the cancer spoke at last", which makes you think that if cancer could speak what would it say? (714). "Finally clarified" in the last line tells me that it all makes sense now, which is how I felt too(714). I'm not a big fan of poetry which is why all of the poems I selected came from my Norton. I did read through a lot of poems and the ones that I chose were not random. I really enjoyed these.

Haiku Inventions

"Morning"
The pillow to my ear
like a fish in a pond.
Belongs.

"Afternoon"
America's Next Top Model.
As a bee has seen flowers,
I've seen 1000 times over.

"Spaghettios"
A volcano exploded
on the floor of the earth
at lunchtime.

"Evening"
One Eats-
lonely, like a duck
without a mate.

"Homework"
The world is spinning,
The clock is moving,
Due.

"Sleep"
Dark sky
on a chilly evening.
Eyes, stores, parks, and such must close.

PS-Haiku's are NOT my thing.

More Poetry

Love or Tragedy? One could only guess.
An opinion. Happiness toward one another
might be depression for the other.

Nonsense. Truth. Societal judgements.
Perfection in one person's eye,
for someone else to satisfy.

Murder. Crime. Revenge for Peace.
An oxymoron don't you think?

Poetry screams, opinions cannot be fact.
I hear the screams. I am me.
I see them as I do.
My ideas may be strange but don't judge.
Do I judge you?