Orion

Drip

Exhaustion in the form of sweat…

Dripping from the tired body of an athlete

Standing on the rough, sparkle-black tape

Of a skateboard in the air

After being white marked

From the shoes on the feet that popped, flicked, and leveled out

Into the six feet of space from the ground up

That only seemed to grow larger by the second

Until that second is divided in half then in half again

Up to the point where one steezy kick flip felt like a lifetime…

A life time of five seconds

That in my head felt like five years.

Oh how I wish there was big blue foam pit to save me,

But there’s nothing to save me now

Except doing what I came here to do

Which is to land the trick that only can be landed

With the cooperation of the tired body of an athlete,

Dripping with exhaustion in the form of sweat.  

Limericks

There once was a really big dude

he wasn't trying to be rude

but he had no money

and he said he was hungry

so I let him eat all of my food.

There was once a boy who lied

his nose grew long and he cried

it grew as long as a street

then it grew a million feet

oh it grew so long he died.

there was once a superhero

and his powers were just about zero

he couldn't run or fly

who was this guy?

he looked like Robert De Niro

 

Orion

May 1, 2013

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

This four stanza poem has many examples of assonance and alliteration. For example, the line “two roads diverged yellow wood”, the first line of the poem, has a lot of the ‘O’ sound. Roads, Yellow, and Wood all have that same or close to the same sound. This is an example of assonance. Another example of assonance would be from the line “Yet knowing how way leads on to way,” from the third stanza. The similar sound in this line is the ‘W’ sound. The words Knowing, How, and Way from this line all have the same sound.  There is also a little alliteration and repetition in this poem. An example of alliteration in this people would be from the line “Because it was grassy and wanted wear;” in the second stanza. Alliteration is the repetition of words that have the same first letter (and sound). In this sentence, the alliteration would be with the words Was, Wanted, and Wear. All three words have the W as the first letter. An example of Repetition would be the repeat of the the very first line in the first stanza. Frost puts the same line into the last stanza as a line that tells people that its wrapping up. Except the strange thing is that when he repeated the line, he left out the world yellow, in yellow wood. I wonder why this is.  The rhyme scheme in this poem is ABAAB throughout each stanza, with mostly exact rhymes but one approximate rhyme. This rhyme is between black and back. They almost rhyme, but not quite.  

Rap #2! By Orion

Yo my rhymes be diligent

Yours be packed with fillin’ ins

25 percent represent ignorance

None of you innocent to

Flowin with my flow

Yall just sit back and yall watch the rap show!

So, pay attention

I got sharp words flyin in yo direction

Going so fast it creates deception

50 words of advice for you son,

Well see who wins this election

Uhh

Yall can’t match me

Inhale my words before you make yours crappy

Shape up Shaggy

Cus I be the one who makes Scooby waggy.

Rap #1!   By Orion

My names O to the R to the ION

You smaller than an ion but its somewhere to begin

I come around and go again

Start at one and get to ten

Ford to da Bens

I got 20-20 lens

I don’t know the beginning, yet I can see until the end

Of the dark, dark  tunnel

It’s like oil down the funnel

My raps start snatching then I make the cookie crumble

I take it off yo hands then I let the ball fumble

Listen and you’ll feel the beat rumble

Yee, straight outta Humboldt.

Orion

April 25, 2013

Modern

I wake up and eat,

concentrate throughout the day,

go to sleep, restart.

Nature

things begin to grow,
blooming colors all around.
see and feel the change.




Seasons
hot turns into cold
sunshine turns into rainfall
come and go around.

Orion
April 25 , 2013

Still Faces

I have seen eyes longing for things to do

The plainness and greyness I cause

Is terrible for people who cannot handle the feeling.

I feel that things turn into nothing after years of their practice

And I have noticed that fullness turns into emptiness.

some things will never change.

It is oatmeal without a sweetening:

There is no taste and no color to be enjoyed,

so it turns into a thing you will never eat.

I have realized that people do not like me
because I am what helps people not like anything,
what helps people like nothing at all

I have seen many still faces.
many still faces

 Still with hope of finding an enjoyable road to travel.