Da+Vonte+Martin

= = toc =Ode to Typical Morning = = = **A Typical Morning** //Alarm rings at 5:30 am ,// //Awakens with saliva running down the pillow , Sticks to my face as I snooze the alarm, Looks at phone to see battery power , Battery on red let charge for an hour , While it’s charging take a shower , 5:40 in the bathroom running the water , Jumps in the shower water hits my chest like a bunch of loose quarters , 5:58 dries off and brushes teeth , Runs up stairs to see amount of time left to keep , 40 minutes left till I have to leave , So I spend 6 minutes pasting wondering , Long or short sleeves ? Picks out clothing running downstairs to iron , Look at the tv , 10 minutes after 5:59 , 4 minutes so the iron can warm up , 3 minutes to iron jeans from bottom-up , 1 minute to iron my shirt , Run up to my room place t-shirt and boxers on , 7 minutes to get dress , Brush hair. . . backtrack , Remove shirt put deodorant on , Place clothing back on now ready to leave , Closed the door ready to leave but guess what. . . forgot my keys , Bang on the door cause my mom is still home , Run up stairs to retrieve keys and guess what. . . forgot my phone , Remove phone form charge now battery is green , Walk to bus stop to catch the 8 , Turning the corner to hope I’m not late , Hop on the bus ,6:58 at the subway , 7:03 and on my way , to the one school SLA . // =**Sonnet **= = = // **The Peanut-Chew** "Who stole the peanut-chew out of the jar!" , Said the extremely mad mother of three , "Mike it was you cause' you ran to the car!", "But mother what made you think it was me" , "Well you smell like peanut from what I know", "Well thats the deodarant that you smell", "Until I find out ... you don't play in the snow." "O-M-G it wasn't me . . . what the hell!" "Watch your mouth and now go up to your room." "Sydney come over now and stand right here," "Mike up to your room and I'll call you soon." "Mother yelled until Sydney dropped a tear." "Mother heard chewing and wondered who'd it be," "Then she smelled chocolate and looked back at me." //

=Ghazal = = = // **"Hi my name is Cold"** It’s 3:00 and I’m leaving school in thee Cold , The air tears across my face and then I wish I can see Cold , I stare at him in dismay and then I just think, I want to ask why the cold is here so I wish I could be Cold, He looks back at me with unlimited audacity then , I ask the Cold could he be me he says yes so I’m Me. . . Cold, //// My soul moves through the Cold and I feel like air, Now the Cold is me and I’m the Cold, so now I just flow in air and be Cold. The Cold is just sitting there in my body his face gradually turning white, 5 minutes past and I don’t like being Cold, I look down at the Cold being me and he’s completely Cold. I notice that my body temperature relaxes to neutral and Cold is freezing, Then I feel good knowing that the Cold can actually be Cold. I watch over the Cold and he stands still I smile in excitement as the Cold walks shivering because he’s cold. I flow in the air moving with Cold across the street, I follow him under ground as his teeth chatters he probably can’t believe he’s cold. He walks down the steps stumbling along the rail, Cold then turns to look at me and says ”Let me be me. . . Cold!” “No” I said. . . “I would not let you be Cold” so now I’m going to show you how it is to be cold //

=My Poetry Description =

//Hello my name is Da Vonté Shahir Martin. I'm 15 years old and current Sophomore at Science Leadership Acedemy. For quarter 3 in English we had to make an english portfolio about poems. I'm not a big fan of poetry but I enjoyed writing poems for this unit. When I wrote the poems, the rhyme scheme I wanted to use was AA-BB-CC-DD-EE etc. So when we had to write poetry using the different rhyme schemes I thought it was pretty hard at first. But now I have the hang of it. When I write poetry I usually like to write poems with a small twist at the end for example the "Peanut-Chew" poem. My favorite poem that I've written from the above is "Hi my name is Cold". Thats my favorite because I can relate to it the the most because in reality I really hate cold weather.If you notice in that poem I refer to the cold as Cold and cold. Cold with an upper-case C refers to the spirit "Cold" in the poem.// = = //** Stupidity is a talent for misconception. **//

**-Edgar Allen Poe **


**Edgar Allan Poe** **(**January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.

=The Tell-Tale Heart = // "For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this! One of his eyes resembled that of a virtue- a pale blue eye, with a film over it." it says that Edgar Allen Poe was not well set when it came to money. And in this stanza it says "For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye!" This shows how Edgar Allen Poe didn't have an interest in money in his personal life nor did his characters in his poems.** // = = =Anonymous = // "Sleep, those little slices of death Oh how I loath them." because Edgar Allen Poe spoke a lot about death in his poems , but he hasn't ever explained why. So in this quote he says,"Sleep, those little slices of death** **Oh how I loath them" He is saying that sleep is another form of death. Sleep is the reasoning why many people die. Edgar is also saying how he hates to sleep because he fears that he may die.**
 * In "Edgar Allen Poe The Tell-Tale Heart" this stanza stuck out to me the most because when reading his biography
 * The quote is above is by of course Edgar Allen Poe. This quote was selected

// =My Opinion of: Edgar Allen Poe = // Edgar Allen Poe is a very good poet. I find his poetry interesting because it isn't very complex to understand. His poetry is straight-forward with out having to guess what a particular stanza is saying unlike other poets. I also find Poe's poetry very interesting because it's very mysterious at times which is very entertaining in my opinion. //