Something to Motivate You
Stephen Venator
April 14, 2010
Introduction
the theme of this anthology is about poems that are
motivational. The poems are written to help people
get through their day and give them a jumpstart on
their day. The first five poems are all about making
your day better from the start. Don’t Quit and The
Park Bench are about helping you when you’re
having a bad day.
Table of Contents
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Pg 1; Introduction
Pg 2; Brainstorm, by; Mongolian Chop Squad; Beck (song)
Pg 3; The Living Waters, by; Colin Campbell (senyru)
Pg 4; The Victor, By; C.W Longnecker (Prose) (Burlesque)
Pg 5; Carcossa, by; James Page (verse)
Pg 6; The Road Not Taken, by; Robert Frost
Pg 7; The Park Bench, author unknown (Blank Verse)
Pg 8; A Tudor who Tooted A Flute, author unknown (tongue twister)
Pg 9; Don’t Quit, author unknown (classicism)
Pg 10; Fire, By; Stephen Venator (Haiku)
Pg 11; Earth, By; Stephen Venator (Pastoral)
Pg 12; Fear, by Stephen Venator (Carpe Diem)
Pg 13; Freedom by; Stephen Venator (Acrostic Poem)
Pg 14; Miracles by; Stephen Venator (free verse)
Bonus Poems
Pg 15; Arthur C. Clarke (quote)
Pg 16;
Pg 17; Sonnet 77: Thy Glass Will Show Thee How Thy Beauties Wear by; William Shakespeare
(sonnet)
Pg 18; Bibliography
, Brainstorm
Beck; Mongolian Chop Squad (Big Muff)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8j767ZMcUQ&feature=related
You open up the door with negative aura
Don't chain down you affection
You say future is murky indeed...
Awaken primal feeling
I'm sick of hearing your gripe.
Don't benumb emotion
Sing out primal scream
Open up the door with negative aura
Let loose every feeling from joy to grief
If you never change
then the tiny spark of your life will fizzle out
Go against headwind or ride on the tailwind.
Game is in your hands.
You open up the door with negative aura
How do you play?
(I'm fed up fed up fed up)
Follow your brainstorm!!!
You say future is murky indeed...
I'm sick of hearing your gripe.
How long will you go on lying?
Get wise tie yourself down
Open up the door with negative aura
How long will you go on lying?
(I can't keep up whit you)
Breakdown with that empty smile!!!
If you never change
then the tiny spark of your life will fizzle out
Don't chain down you affection
If you are at a loss as to what to do.
Awaken primal feeling
Raise you stiff middle finger.
Don't benumb emotion
It will know which way the wind blows.
Sing out primal scream
Let loose every feeling from joy to grief
Don't chain down you affection
(x4)
Awaken primal feeling
Don't benumb emotion
Go against headwind or ride on the tailwind.
Sing out primal scream
Game is in your hands.
Let loose every feeling from joy to grief
How do you play?
Follow your brainstorm!!!
In Living Waters
Colin Campbell
in living waters
a child of the universe
floats in the cosmos
The Victor
Poet: Longenecker, C.W
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If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don’t
If you like to win but think you can’t,
It’s almost a cinch you won’t.
If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost.
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow’s will
It’s all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you are.
You’ve got to think high to rise.
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win the prize.
Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man.
But sooner or later, the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.
Carcossa
by James Page
The bells have rung and the temples shine
Sweet, luscious grapes swell purple on the vine
In the place that was
Carcossa
The Peacock King strolls majestically
In more colors than mere human eyes can see
In the place that's his
Carcossa
There are women of face and form so fine
Their beautiful glow is unreached by time
They stroll on streets of blue tile and light
Strangers to fear with eyes as bright
As a sunrise of wondrous orange and gold
That kisses a nurturing land
As a Sunsets magenta, within flames of red
Painted by Father's unseen hand
They live in his place
Carcossa
Under domes of tile, perfect white and blaze red
hills of green a multi-hue
I saw orchards of dates and almonds
Far lakes of purple and blue
A place of health and growth back then
A place I dreamed I once had been
Our place was known
Carcossa
The Road Not Taken
Poet: Robert Frost
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
The Park Bench
Poet: Unknown
Beneath the long, straggly branches of an old willow tree.
Disillusioned by life with good reason to frown,
For the world was intent on dragging me down.
And if that weren't enough to ruin my day,
A young boy out of breath approached me, all tired from
play.
He stood right before me with his head tilted down
And said with great excitement, "Look what I found!"
In his hand was a flower, and what a pitiful sight,
With its petals all worn - not enough rain, or too little light.
Wanting him to take his dead flower and go off to play,
I faked a smile and then shifted away.
But instead of retreating he sat next to my side
And placed the flower to his nose and declared with
overacted surprise,
"It sure smells pretty and it's beautiful too.
That's why I picked it; here, it's for you."
The weed before me was dying or dead.
Not vibrant of colors: orange, yellow or red.
But I knew I must take it, or he might never leave.
So I reached for the flower, and replied, "Just what I need."
But instead of him placing the flower in my hand,
He held it mid-air without reason or plan.
It was then that I noticed for the first time
That weed-toting boy could not see he was blind.
I heard my voice quiver; tears shone in the sun
As I thanked him for picking the very best one.
"You're welcome," he smiled, and then ran off to
play,
Unaware of the impact he'd had on my day.
I sat there and wondered how he managed to see
A self-pitying woman beneath an old willow tree.
How did he know of my self-indulged plight?
Perhaps from his heart, he'd been blessed with
true sight.
Through the eyes of a blind child, at last I could see
The problem was not with the world; the problem
was me.
And for all of those times I myself had been blind,
I vowed to see the beauty in life, and appreciate
every second that's mine.
And then I held that wilted flower up to my nose
And breathed in the fragrance of a beautiful rose
And smiled as I watched that young boy, another
weed in hand,
About to change the life of an unsuspecting old
man.
A Tudor who tooted a flute
Author unknown
A Tudor who tooted a flute
tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to their tutor,
"Is it harder to toot
or to tutor two tooters to toot?
Don't Quit
Author unknown
When things go wrong as they sometimes will;
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill;
When the funds are low, and the debts are high;
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh;
When care is pressing you down a bit
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Success is failure turned inside out;
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt;
And you can never tell how close you are;
It may be near when it seems afar.
So, stick to the fight when you're hardest hit It's when things go wrong that you mustn't quit.
Fire
By; Stephen Venator
The fire burning
Consuming all in its path
But not where I stand
Earth
by; Stephen Venator
The dirt between my feet
The only thing I will ever need
Always there to help me after defeat
And to praise me after every success
She will help anyone she meets
But only if you treat her with respect
Will you get this honour.
Fear
by; Stephen Venator
Some people say fear is for the weak
Others say that they never experienced fear
While I say that in order to be courageous
One needs to know fear
Freedom
by; Stephen Venator
Freedom is the
Right to choose
Everybody
Everywhere should know that
Doing anything to protect is the most important thing in life
Of course I will fight for
My freedom
Miracles
What is a miracle
Is it acing a math exam
Or is it getting a job you thought you'd never get
What about looking into the eyes of a new born child
I don’t know about you, but it seems to me
That these are all things that we do ourselves
Without the help of an unseen force
So I ask you again
What is a miracle
Arthur C. Clarke
The only way of finding the limits of the possible
is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Diamond Mind
Charles Ghigna
The promise of our dreams comes true
When patience minds our goal;
Remember that the diamond once
Was just a piece of coal.
Sonnet 77: Thy Glass Will Show Thee How Thy Beauties Wear
William Shakespeare
Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,
Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste;
The vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear,
And of this book, this learning mayst thou taste.
The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show
Of mouthed graves will give thee memory;
Thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know
Time's thievish progress to eternity.
Look what thy memory cannot contain,
Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find
Those children nursed, deliver'd from thy brain,
To take a new acquaintance of thy mind.
These offices, so oft as thou wilt look,
Shall profit thee and much enrich thy book.
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Poetry Anthology Rubric (Value 100)
Components
Superior (9-10)
Appropriate (6-8)
Components
Superior (9-10)
Appropriate (6-8)
Experiencing Difficulty
(1-5)
Cover page clearly
provides the title of
the collection, the
name of the compiler,
and images to visually
engage readers.
Order of Table of
Contents matches the
order of the contents
in
the
Poetry
Anthology. Marking
rubric is included as
final
page
of
anthology.
Table of Contents
includes both Title of
poem, style of poetry,
author, and uses
correct punctuation
Introductory page
explains the theme of
the anthology and
why the editor has
selected the poems
included.
Poetry pages
contained visual
imagery that
connected to the
imagery found in the
poem
Poems written by the
students were
displayed a mastery
of poetic devices (i.e.
sound devices,
rhythm, compact
language, layering,
metaphors and other
symbolic language)
Poetry anthology
display correct
spelling, grammar
and punctuation.
Cover page clearly
provides the title of the
collection, the name of
the compiler, and
images to visually
engage readers.
Table of contents
includes all of the items
in the collection and the
order in which they
appear. Rubric
included.
Cover page is missing
either the title of the
collection, the name of
the compiler or images.
Cover page is missing
two of the following: the
title of the collection, the
name of the compiler or
images.
The student did not
create a cover page.
Table of Contents is
missing one or two items
in the collection, OR the
items are not exactly in
the order in which they
appear.
Table of Contents is
missing many items in
the collection, and/or
the items are not in any
particular order.
No Table of Contents is
included in the Poetry
Anthology. No marking
rubric included.
Table of Contents
includes all titles and
poems and uses
quotation marks around
the titles.
Introductory page
clearly explains the
theme selected and how
the poems connect to the
theme.
Table of contents is
missing some authors or
titles, or quotation
marks are not included
around titles.
The introductory page
explains the theme
selected but does not
explain how the poems
connect to the theme or
vice versa.
The poetry page had
images that loosely
connected to the poem.
Table of Contents is
missing authors or titles,
and/or does not use
quotation marks around
titles.
The introductory page
attempts to explain the
theme of the anthology
and why the poems were
selected.
No Table of Contents is
included in the Poetry
Anthology.
The poetry page had
images, but did not
connect to the poem.
The poetry page
contained no visual
images.
Poem displays a clear
understanding and
mastery of the poetic
device throughout the
entire poem.
Poem displays an
understanding of poetic
device, but the poem
does not follow the idea
all the way through.
Poem displays an
attempt of a poetic
device, but does not
show clear
understanding poetic
elements.
Poem did not display an
attempt of poetic
devices.
Poetry anthology
contains no errors in
spelling, grammar or
punctuation.
Citation was complete.
Poetry anthology few
errors in spelling,
grammar or
punctuation.
Citation was attempted,
Poetry anthology
contains several errors
in spelling, grammar or
punctuation.
Citation was attempted,
Poetry anthology
contains many spelling,
grammar and
punctuation errors.
No citations were used.
Citations for each
The poetry page had
images that directly
connected to the
imagery found in the
poem.
Experiencing Difficulty (1-5)
Incomplete (0)
Incomplete (0)
No introductory page is
included.
Schedule for completing my anthology
Assignment due: Monday, May 3, 2010. If I turn it in on April 30, 2010, I receive 5 bonus marks.
April 11
April 12 get 3 poems
April 13 get 2 poems
April 14 get 3 poems
April 16
April 19 write 2 poems
April 20 write 3 poems
April 21 intro
April 22 contents
April 23
April 26 get pics
April 27 edit
April 28
April 29
April30