Tuesday, January 27, 2009

assignment 8 - poems



On April 12, my mind wasn’t right
Let my master do it, pull my trigger tight
I gave in, didn’t think much of it
But the North got mad and had a fit

Only one decision is what it took
The south didn’t turn back, didn’t even look
A war against brothers is what I started
My pride got in the way, became unguarded

What I started guaranteed no going back
Men stood up and grabbed a haversack
Got a housewife and replica of me
They though that I was the key

Now so many are dead and gone
Pickets scared to blink, or even to yawn
Not even shebangs are found now
Not a single horse or cow

On April 12, my mind wasn’t right
Let my master do it, pull the trigger tight
It was wrong and I feel really bad
It was really wrong, and now I’m mad
….BANG!!!

- Pvt. Ruffin’s Rifle









A Horrifying scream is the first thing I heard
A tree rattled, it even scared a bird
The grass is muddy; no it’s just stained with blood
I hear another scream; a leg falls with a thud

Another man done, and blood splatters on my walls
The man next in line suddenly passes out and falls
A nurse from behind tosses the leg to a pile
It’s big; it’s been growing for a while

The so called surgeon is pale and calm
No sweat on his body, not even his palm
He is used to the dead, he sees it every day
But I’m not quite sure that he’ll ever be okay

There are mostly jonas that stand outside my walls
They see what’s next, one sits and balls
But they know it’s got to happen, the infection has grown
So they just sit, all alone

All these dead and wounded make me really upset
Everyone will die, now that I will bet
If this madness doesn’t stop soon, I will have to go
Let the wind take me and just fly, flow

- hospital tent

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

my fight

Last year, in 9th grade, I got in a fight with the girlfriend of a guy I was living with. I was with him and his grandmother and I heard that she kissed another boy. One day I was over at my boyfriend's house and saw her sitting on this guy's lap and i got mad and started talking **** to her. The next day at school when I saw her, I told her to meet me behind the fense and she didn't come so I went to her door. she came out and we got in a fight. It could have be avoided, but the guy I was living with was a good person, and he didn't deserve what she was doing to him. The fight didn't change anything, and it didn't affect the relationship I had with the boy or my living situation, except for the fat that she wasn't allowed at the house if I was there.