Hope (Karl Lim)

Hope

Melvin T

Hope is a candle in the night
hope is a long respite

Hope is a feather
Once lifted, it'll only get higher

Hope is an oasis in a desert
Hope is a diamond in the dirt

Hope is everywhere
Yet hope is scarcely there

Hope is the dream of better days
Hope is the passion ablaze

Hope is beautiful
And hope is tranquil

Hope is there for everyone
Hope is an asset that all has in abundance

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hope-268/

Politicians

Politicians

On a very bright sunny day

Mr. Pig ate eggs and bacon.

He was very lively and gay;

He was listening to Akon.

Pop crackle snap grumble grumble.

'Twas a sunny day, like we said.

Then his stomach started to rumble-

"Just doing my job," Mr. Pig said.

Mr. Pig then dressed to go out-

To talk to pigs who will see him.

He woos them with his mouth

So for breakfast he can eat them.

Porkers. N.d. Image. The BlazeWeb. 16 Dec 2012. <http://www.theblaze.com/stories/congress-has-still-found-ways-to-pass-earmarks-despite-ban-heres-how-and-a-list/>.

A New Start (Kenny Ramos)

A New Start.

Bernard Shaw

I have wiped the slate clean,
No more reminders from the past.
Memories of what I have been,
Have vanished at long last.
I look forward to my future new,
Where all is territory strange.
Soon I will be among the few,
That plans their life at long range.
I see my life laid out at my feet,
New friends shall rally at my call.
They will be the first I will greet,
At this my welcoming ball.
Soon all memories will depart,
Of a past left well behind.
I will get off to a new start,
With the best of mankind. 

Taken from:

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-new-start/

Sonnagrams- Funny ones (Kenny Ramos)

I was reading about K. Silem Mohammed's Sonnagrams book, and I have to say, what I've found is hilarious.

(Whatcha talkin bout Willis)

... you may ask. Well, what Silem does is make anagrams of Shakespeare's sonnets. The anagram he does has to use all the letters, with whatever extra letters becoming letters for the title. According to reviews, the result is another sonnet. It's very.... modern, all that. No fancy words to look up, just plain old basic words. Here's an example of his I got from another blog:

The the the the the the the the the the Death (Hey Hey)

Hell yeah, this is an English sonnet, bitch:

Three quatrains and a couplet, motherfucker.

I write that yummy shit to get me rich:

My iambs got more drive than Preston Tucker.

I also got that English rhyme shit straight,

That alternating shit the verses do.

Word: every foxy mama that I date

Feels how my goddam prosody is true.

And I don’t mess with no Italian shit;

I only blow your mind the one way, ho.

I line it up four-four-four-two, that’s it:

That’s how I do my sonnet bidness, yo.

My mad Shakespearean moves are “phat,” or “def”:

They weave my pet eel Lenny—what the eff?

Well, my example has a lot of swear words, but as you can see it's... well, funny and a work of metafiction (since it does discuss how a sonnet works. You know. In a bragging way. Bragging swearing way. Kinda like how people brag online.)

Anyway. The last line? Basically that's how his OTHER works go, hence the "what the eff?" (although, let's be honest, that's exactly how we react to any sonnet.) I haven't read his work, but I'm definitely going to look for it.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Metafiction

Works Cited

Kakepare, Ukarau, dir. Whatcha talkin bout Willis. 2007. Web. 16 Dec 2012. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw9oX-kZ_9k>.

Case, Sarah. "Songs and Sonnets." Songs and sonnets: A review of Peter Gizzi's 'Threshold Songs' and K. Silem Mohammad's 'Sonnagrams 1–20'. Jacket2, 9 2012. Web. 16 Dec 2012. 

Siamond, Sarah. "The Year in Review: Shouldn't the Sonnet? [by Sandra Simonds, August 15, 2012]."The Best American Poetry. The Best American Poetry, 2 2012. Web. 16 Dec 2012. <http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2012/12/the-year-in-review-shouldnt-the-sonnet-by-sandra-simonds-august-15-2012.html>.