A Poem Made by a Picture

Reading

It takes you to sit without anyone distracting you.
Reading is a new world without anyone around.
You enter a new perspective and look at things from a different view.
The pages stare at you and look how beautiful you are while you read.

It takes you to build up hope.
The protagonist makes you excited.
Even when they struggle, you encourage them to move forward.
You tell them to not do something because you know that they would be in danger if they do.
You enter as a new omnipresent survivor and take care of the character all the way.

It takes you to leave the place that you are to become omnipresent in another person's life.
You don’t want to change the plot, but you want to change the danger.
You fear the antagonist will rule over the protagonist.

It takes courage to read the tough parts.
You need to be strong all throughout.
Even if there isn’t a Prince Charming with a slipper to save the day,
Or a Spider-man to risk his life for a girl.

It takes you to go far way.
A secret place where no one knows you.
A place of green pastures as quiet as the deserts.
The grass gives a massage to your feet, while the little ants crawl up on top of your book and read along.

It takes you time, but you would enjoy it.
You analyze the text closely and when you find the symbol,
“Oh, that’s why this happened?”
You begin to see a different way of life without judging.

It takes you to change your mood and bad habits.
You become as calm as the ocean.
Thoughts come to your mind as a cheetah trying to get his prey.
You mood changes as a thermometer.
You begin to develop new skill and a new way of life as you learn a different lifestyle that you want to be like.

It takes an open mind.
Your mind is loud.
It speaks to you things that you might not want to hear.
It takes of your hat and let’s you understand that there is no shade in a sunshine.

Reading is a practice of life
Have you tried being present in an important person’s life?
Have you tried warning about danger?
Have you tried not judging others?

It takes love to live life the way you read.
With reading you do what you don’t do with life.

An Inspirational Quote #2

First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!
– Ray Bradbury

As a writer, I can relate to this quote because it explains that you don't need to do anything or get frustrated about anything. The character is the one that does the actions and the talking. The only thing that the writer has to do is write what it is doing. When you are writing and you start getting frustrated, that means that you are not allowing the characters to do the work. That is because you want to do everything yourself. You shouldn't do that. The characters like to develop by themselves, you just do what they tell you to do. It's just like a human-being when it starts to grow and it learns to do things, like walking. It does not want you to carry it anymore because it already knows how to walk. If you carry it, the baby will start crying and you can’t hear anything with all that crying. When you allow the baby to keep practicing, the baby will walk perfectly and not fall. That is just like a character, once it starts doing its actions and decision and you want to control it, the character stops because you want to take control and that's why you get a writer’s block because you can’t hear anything. When you allow the character to take its position, it will walk fluently through your mind for you to write. You should allow them to make decisions. Your story will turn out great if you listen to them because they know what’s going on.

An Observation Poem

Gate

Gate.

A vast gate,

like a magical kingdom,

with ebony gates.

Divulging your path of entrance and exit.

Twain gate doors.

Two paths.

One way.

Zero labor.

Vehicles authorized as one side of the gate.

You shouldn't wander through the sod,

Nor litter,

Nor leap over the gate.

With unlocked gates,

a path to discover.

Entering the other side,

is like entering a new world,

alone with peace and privacy.

Reaction to McCloud's Stages

McCloud's Path for Arts Steps

1. Idea/Purpose
2. Form
3. Idiom
4. Structure
5. Craft
6. Surface

The first step gives a motivation to the ideas, emotions, philosophies, and purpose of the content of the work.

The second step will take you to decide what it will be like.
Ex. A Book? A chalk? A folder? A pencil? A picture frame?

The third step is to check your vocabulary styles, gestures or subjects matter. Also the genre that your work will be placed in.

The fourth step is putting it all together. Cutting out the unnecessary and adding the necessary. The arrangement and composition is also important for the structure of  your work.

The fifth step is constructing the work, applying skills, practical knowledge, invention, problem-solving and getting the job done.
 
The sixth step is producing values and finishing the aspects most apparent on first superficial exposure to work.                                      

A goal that I would like to achieve as an artist is the fourth step, structure. I need to work on this step because I need to learn how to cut out the unnecessary parts of my writing pieces. I need to learn to not add words and sentences that do not have a symbol or meaning to the story/poem. When I kill the extra words, I change them into necessary ones. The necessary ones add  description and necessity because it catches the readers attention. That's what I need to do! Add the words that catch the readers attention and take out the ones that are just there taking space and have no meaning.

Ex. Katrina was soon going to get married with Bobby. Her mother had bought and planned everything ahead of time, so everything was already ready. Even though there were only two weeks left, her blue eyes had feelings for someone else.

This seems like a great story, but why do I care if she has blue eyes? Good to know that, but is it really necessary. When you add words that shouldn't be part of the story, it makes the story basic and simple. Sometimes it is great to add what the characters look like, but most of the time I like the readers to make up their own movie while they are reading and for them to pick how the character looks because it will make them like my story more since they are being part of building it up. Let's try this better version of the story!   

Ex. Katrina was soon going to get married with Bobby. Her mother had bought and planned everything ahead of time, so everything was already ready. Even though there were only two weeks left, Katrina did not feel ready because she was in love with someone else.

This new example made the story sound a more interesting. Many thought came to me while I even read it myself. Who does Katrina still love? Will she still be getting married? Will Bobby find out? How will her mother react to this? As you can see, this creates a story because it is saying something interesting that catches the readers attention. It also doesn't have simple words blocking the path of the story to build something with greater imagination.

I will be achieving this goal by revising my work with more than two drafts. I will also need to take Stephen King's advice: after you are done with a writing piece, leave it alone for at least six weeks and don't worry about it. Then, come back to the writing piece and read/revise it. You will see what you should add and what you should take out. The school teachers could help me reach this goal by setting time after a long time, to revise work and give me some questions of what else they would like to know about a part of the writing piece because it will help me know what should I press the 'delete' button and/or continuing typing.

I am hoping that this new writing program helps me put details step by step and how to know which words are needed and which are not. Sometimes I have so many ideas, but I make them into one boring part of the story because I want the process to go fast since I want to get rid of it and get going on with a new idea for the story. I want to learn to be patient and write things descriptively with structure. If I lose the thought, it means that it did not belong there. I just want to handle my ideas in a patient way in order for the character to fluently express itself instead of me pressuring the character.

Small Word Poem

A Fruitful Flag

How should I not love this flag?

This flag gave me a right.

This flag gave me liberty.

This flag gave me hope.

Where were you when we won independence?

My great, great, great grandparents were not yet born,

but I was destined to live in a land of freedom.

I was free ever since I was born.

Thanks to my old folks who were brave to fight.

Where were you when we almost divided into the Separate States of America?

God didn't allow for us to separate.

We are called for peace, not a split.

All these years,

ever since we gain independence from Britain.

As a united country, we went through a lot.

We have gone through peril, grief, woe, and ire.

But since we have eachother’s back,

we also have lived glee.

This flag is a badge.

We have achieved many things in this country,

but unitedly.

Twenty Little Poetry Project

Rough Seas

1. The sea waters are a universe.
2. The waves come near me and wave at my feet.
3. Sand mixes all over my feet. The wind that blows my hair goes inside of my nose and smells as salty as last night's dinner. The color of the waves change the color of my eyes. The seas creatures make noises, but I understand their language. They call for me to join them in an adventure. I couldn’t because I can’t breathe with neither my nose or mouth. I tried to get in and all I tasted was green seaweed that tasted like lettuce and broccoli.
4. The sky turned dark enough to not be able to see the waters natural color the way that you swallow something solid as if you were dying.
5. a sudden blow in my face when I woke up by Carlos Rivera on the little house on top of the sand in Guanica, Puerto Rico because I was a sleep for two long that day in 2001.
6. I didn’t sleep all day long in 2001.
7. My brother was small and annoying, but most times I enjoyed his company.
8. I wondered if he wanted to join the chorus to sing. Easy Peasy for her.
9. She had the highest voice because of her high heels.
10. A quiet place where a sea breeze sings the song.
11. The fancy human of skill that is afraid to pass the sea shore.
12. I am as peaceful as the tsunami that’s gates been open to flood.
13. I am given natural gills to be able to breath under water.
14. Why couldn’t Karla just swim with all that talent that she received.
15. They will all see me tonight swim as fast as the sailfish and be surprised.
16. The flippers that move me like a lazy body because it is natural.
17. I need to remember this because it never happened.
18. Necesito aprender y parar de tener miedo.
19. The peebles smiled at me because they believed.
20. I am the swimmer who swims the seas that cover the land.