Poetry Notebook

Yes Sir, Yes Ma'am.

selected by Juan Diego Jimenez

Description:
These poems will be about my struggle with my parents and how my poor relationship with them varies from poorly to even worse, also how she doesn't show that really she does care. I have a lot of things to relate to these poems though I even though I lack my parent's expectations, I must still behave.

Synopsis: The poems in this notebook are about parents.

My Mother Would be a Falconress by Robert Duncan
Description of Heaven and Hell by Mark Jarman

Father by Edgar Guest
Only a dad by Edgar Guest

Man of the Year by Robin Becker
My Mother was no White Dove by Reginald Shepherd
Mother o' Mine by Rudyard Kipling
To My Mother by Edgar Allen Poe

Rosy Peach Benjamin Moore 2089-20

Rosy peach

now she's in a good mood

rosy peach

pacificatory princess

palatable peacemaker

precatious of her polished fingernails

like ice sculptures.

Her rose aroma

speaking to us
saying it's safe; for now.
Her red dress

accompanies her smile

as she goes out for dinner

looking at her wedding picture.

She takes off her rose mask

sits

with both her feet

up at her desk

looking at her minions.

Her red lipstick

slimed

across her daughter's cheek

brings back

the joy.

Her rose

inside her

is weak
soon
it begins to diminish

back to her

other side.

Its like

a never ending cylce

that just

seems

to come full cirlce.

Its funny

she rarely shows her rose

inside of her.

A Child Called "It"

A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer

Publisher: Omaha Press

Genre: Memoir

Where I got it: I bought in Barnes and Nobles during christmas vacation.

One sentence summary: Dave tells the story of not only his daily struggle against his abusive parents, but his bravery of surviving near death situations in one of the most severe child abuse cases in California.

First sentence of the book: March 5, 1973, Daly City, California- I'm late.

First chapter review: The chapter begins when Dave is in his final days of child abuse where it finally comes to an end because a teacher reported his bruises on his face and he was sent to live with his aunt. Later on, the story goes back to where it all started.

Verdict: This story is truly heartbreaking and the author makes it easy to understand the immense pain he was going through, best book I've ever read.

Cover comments: The cover is a picture of Dave as a child while God's hand reaches out for him assuming he now has some one that looks over him and protects him.

Darkness Shows its' Face

The declining sun
the darkness
the flames
the wood exploding.
"We ran as fast as we could."
Silence struck among them,
his face went white
uncomfortably embroiled.

"We saw thew beast."
The twins breathed simultaneously,
gripped in each others arms
holding tremulously to each other.
"All right then, we'll look for the beast."
The maze of darkness
full of claws
full of the awful unknown.
A menace
a nightmare.
A cry echoed through the darkness.
"We'll have to go and climb the mountain."

The excitement of exploration
like walking on rotten eggs
edging along the ledge.
The spear, the conch
The beast, the fire.