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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Visuword

Click the link below for an excellent resource for finding synonyms and related words and ideas for your poems. This site can be used  for any form of writing, but it is very useful for your poems. I will put a permanent link on the right side of the blog for future use. Just type in any word you are looking for alternatives or synonyms or related ideas and see what appears!


Don't forget to be thinking of your classic poem for next week's recitations. If you are unsure what is meant be 'classical' poetry, you should ask me first before memorizing your poem. An inappropriate choice will negatively affect your grade.

Enjoy's Bekah's and Will H's zoobursts. Notice how she used her own photos in her creation, and he used his own voice and sound effects. +2.  Well done!

25 comments:

Lauren said...

should i keep the third stansa or get rid of it help!!!
thanks

Darkness creeps across the sky
Bird’s song is becoming undone
Bading the light good buy
The Witching hour has begun

Tiptoeing through the shadowy halls
Starring at every inch that I see
Scary pictures on the walls
Hands shaking, wishing I wasn’t me

Trees sway in the breeze
Looking hopefully for the sun’s beam
Giving myself a tight squeeze
Wishing this all was a dream

Chattering noises fill my ears
Picking up speed I see,
My comfy bed start to appear
Reaching my bed, I finally feel free

Unknown said...

can some one proof read mine '

“The Truth Hurts but it Sets You Free”



Your friend trips and gets hit with a dodge ball,

she takes her self out

As she slowly walked off the court

her head is high and a smile is on her face

“the truth hurts but it sets you free”



The football fans were silent

As the ball soars like an eagle

The wide receiver is sprinting down the field

as he catches the game winning pass

The crowd roars, as the player tells the ref

that his foot was out of bounds No touch down



Two strokes away from victory

with the pen in sight

The golfer accidentally taps the ball without the ref seeing

after he finishes the hole he admits what he did,

victory slips out of his hands

‘’the truth hurts but it sets you free’’

Unknown said...

lauren i think you should keep thethird line

Wyatt N said...

Will i really like your title and how you repeated it. also you poem is great.

Bekah said...

Um, Lauren its okay and u should keep the third stanza ,but it doesnt make since your last line saying free.

Lauren said...

bekah,
what I ment by i finally feel free is that I am relieved from the darkness

Unknown said...

thanks wyatt

Bekah said...

Does my poem sound okay? Can some PLEASE HELP with my third stanza I NEED one more line !~~~A clogging know within your throat
The darkness deep in your heart
Like a blaring fire ready to start
Hardship turned into unfathomable art

Swollen eyes as tears flow down
Sorrow from others after breakdown
A sighting afar after having a frown

Walking home wanting to bellow
Tasting the wide blue skies above
Polished bright sun brings me aglow
All forgiven now its hollow

Wyatt N said...
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Wyatt N said...

Will, which Will are you

Sophie Hardy said...

A pasture of sorrow

My eyes blink continuously
Sadly not stopped by the tears
Listening to my cracking voice
Hoping that nobody would hear

Vivid names shouted out at me
Are etched in my mind to stay
Pain explodes inside my hart
Smiles gone astray

Walking up to my friends
Their eyes role right at me
Rejections swallow up my sole
Their backs are all that's left to see

All the things that could go wrong
Have gone wrong for me
the what crushes all the pain
Is the laughter and the glee

Beck said...

My poem's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost.

Sophie Hardy said...

the comment above was me sophie h

martha said...

all we have for homework is math, finishing poem, getting a poem from our parents, and grammar packet???????

Bekah said...

Mr. Buxton i made a book called Peter the Panda! Please watch i uploaded pictures of New York

Bekah said...
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Andrew said...

yello! this is my poem, and please comment on it! I am willing to change it, but i just want someone elses opinion OK Enjoy:

Choosing to be Genius

Andrew Egge

A needle in the haystack
The “Outliers”
Once mind set: no turning back
Willing to sacrifice to reach ever higher

Amazing inventions made with brains barely
man
Atomic bomb, for better or for worse
Made to be a mass killing plan?
A brilliant idea or a diabolical curse

Genius good and genius bad
Evil genius: a story itself
Noble and evil: both this world has had
Reality tells as much as tales on a shelf

Not knowledge, smarts, or what one has in the
head
The real test is who has applied
Many, many smart people have said:

Go the extra mile, the extra inch: they haven’t
lied

Thanks for reading! :D

Bekah said...

i dont know about your poem Andrew it doesnt have much balance and why do u put in the semicolons like this ":" after a few words it may need some work and i dont get what your writing about and can u comment on mine?

Unknown said...
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Unknown said...

wyatt it is will t

Catie Nelson said...

Mr.Buxton,
What is the assignment objective for our poem??
Catie nelson

Bekah said...

Mr. Buxton does is this poem to you "classic" and will i be able to use it? its by Robert Frost~It went many years,
But at last came a knock,
And I thought of the door
With no lock to lock.

I blew out the light,
I tip-toed the floor,
And raised both hands
In prayer to the door.

But the knock came again
My window was wide;
I climbed on the sill
And descended outside.

Back over the sill
I bade a "Come in"
To whoever the knock
At the door may have been.

So at a knock
I emptied my cage
To hide in the world
And alter with age.

Bekah said...

sorry will i be able to use it for reading aloud

Catie Nelson said...

Mr.Buxton,
I amde a book on zooburst. It is about a monkey name Joe. The two pages before the last are mixed up.

Anonymous said...

Martha Wright, you still need to have the interpretation (meaning) of the poem

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