Small Poetry Prompt

Do you ever notice,
the creepers and crawlers,
sneaking around,
pretending to be ballers.

They avoid a shoe,
or a drop of rain,
they are so small,
I could go insane.

I will no respect,
my crawlers and creepers,
I will watch out for them,
and so will my sneakers.

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R & J Poetry Prompt

She was perfect,
My life, my heart, my soul,
I could never ask for more,
I had only just met her.

I knew she was for me,
She was the girl of my dreams,
But I lost her in site,
What do I do now.

I snuck in her yard,
The gaurds just missed me,
I went to her room,
Just to see thee.

The night ended great,
I slept in her room,
We were madly in love,
It was us two.

I Remember The Day

I remember the day, when I was at school. Class was pretty boring, we were learning about some math stuff, i could care less. I decided to walk to the fountain to get a drink, and I saw it. It was right there. There was a light on the wall, I couldnt help but go towards it. As i got closer, it got very cold, and I felt different, like something was present. When I touched it, I wasn't in school. I was in a valley, there were animals all over, but they  wernt very normal.They didnt look like they were real animals. They had different features... they were inbreeds. I couldn't talk to them, but I could hear perfectly what they were saying. Then one started to charge at me... He was going to kill me. I started running, and I tripped. When i fell to the ground I was back at school on the ground by the fountain, the light was gone.

T= Tennessee

What about a vacation to Tennessee? Here are some things you have to see.

1.  One place you have to go is Dollywoods Splash Country. It is an amusement park with white water rafting and water slides and even a wave pool. It is located in Pigeon Forge Tennessee.

2. You cant miss the Mud Island Park. It is located right along the Mississippi in Memphis, TN. It has a beautiful view of the river, which you can go kayaking on or canoeing. There is also an amphitheatre, and you can schedual parties at there banquet halls.

3. Chattanooga's Aquarium is a must see attraction. It is the highest rated aquarium in the US. It holds an IMAX 3D Theatre which seats 1000 people. It has rare fish and indangered species of fish. There are hotels right next to the aquarium also. You can also take a cruise down the Mississippi on the Tennessee aquarium cruise.

4. You have to get down there for the Christmas In The Country shopping of a lifetime. There are parks and rides all over mixed in with the side shops and the well known older stores of Tennessee. This takes place in the old town of Livingston. It takes place on December 9.

5. You have to visit Great Smokey Mountains National Park, which ahs a view like no other. In the fall, you can look over the edge to see beutiful trees covered with yellow autumn leaves. It is unbelievable the expirience you have. The animals are very diverse there. You see a lot of different plants also.

6. You can't be in Tennessee and not go to the Memphis Rock 'n Soul Museum. This museum is to celebrate the many years of rock music and how it has come to be the way it is now. They have special sections on Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Sam Phillips and Dewey Phillips. They have tour scheduals online at http://www.tnvacation.com/vendors/memphis_rock_n_soul_museum/

7. Lastly, take a ski down a snowy mountain at Ober Gatlinburg Ski Resort and Amusment Park. The 120 passanger tramway, takes you up the mountain to an indoor ice skating rink, a nocturnal house, and 3 water slides(Why water slides in winter?). And after you done with all your fun, you can ski down to the bottem to get a nice hot cup of cocoa.\


http://www.tennesseeaquarium.org/RiverGorgeExplorer/RiverGorgeExplorer.aspx
http://www.tnvacation.com/

TU Tuesdays

http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/New-York-rises-to-a-challenge-2374974.php

In this editorial, basically it is talking about the recent tax cuts. The tax cuts that still only help the rich. People making $50,000 a year, will only save $5,000, while a millionaire will save $20,000 dollars. Why are we helping the rich become richer? This is absolutly ridiculous the way the government works. If they came out and lived in our houses for a week, they wouldn't know what to do. They wont have their huge rooms and huge houses, and they wont have their fancy cars and drivers. they'll live with the real New Yorkers who struggle everyday to get their bills payed and even get food to eat.

Creativity Breeds Creativity

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfi9gq_video-clips-of-funny-people-falling_shortfilms

Famous Poem Starts #7

  Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred,
All fighting for one thing,
Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred,
All waiting to spread their wings.

Changing their lifes fron heaven to hell,
the ones that courage they lacked,
Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred,
The men had faught back.

Killed by their master,
Killed by the one,
Killed by his master,
left there to shun.

Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred,
Six hundred men and all but nothing,
Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred,
We lost the war that wasnt worth fighting.  

Opinion Prompt 7

I would have to agree that music is a basic need in life. If i didn't have music in my life, I don't know where I would be. It has helped me through all my problems in life. Music has been proven to effect the mood of its surroundings. You play happy music and what do you know, the croud is happy. Everybody begs to differ that it is a bad influence for teenagers and kids because of the lyrics. In my defense, they should have the common sense to know what is right or wrong, drugs are bad, alcohol is bad, they should know this without being told becaise, IT'S ILLEGAL. I think that the worst thing in the world is television, that is such a big influence because its real, its happening right in front of their eyes. Music is cultural and brings people together, and for a lot, makes them feel wanted and not a loser and loner because when they listen to music, they have their on possy and their own mind set and they have control to change to whatever they feel like listening to.

TU Tuesday

http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Court-order-allows-Occupy-Wall-St-protesters-back-2269554.php

This article I think has in refrence and interest to mostly adults. It is about the protests and the strikes all over the world. It is very serious."Police officers clean up the Occupy Wall Street encampment at Zuccotti Park in New York after ordering protesters to leave, early Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011." This quote was from the article Court Order Allows Occupy Wall Street Protesters Back. To me it is saying our police are trying to take control and they aren't doing very good. The article is saying basically the whole time that protesters are being arrested and hurt from the police, yet we have the freedom of speech in the constitution, so what is so wrong.

Prompt 91

In Altamont, we have a lot of lots that are open and unused. We change that. When I was about 10, me and my friends went searching for a new place to play baseball. We walked and walked, and finally at our old school behind a fence, a perfect baseball field. It had the bases and everything. We played almost everyday that summer. It was one of the best places to be. Still to this day, we go and play baseball there.

TU Tuesday

Paterno had earlier in the day announced his intention to retire at the end of the season, his 46th.

           Retire; to quit or leave

Defensive coordinator Tom Bradley will serve as interim coach.

            Interim; temperary

Paterno had come under increasing criticism.

            Criticism; making fun of or being harsh

for not doing more to stop the alleged abuse by former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, who has been charged with molesting eight boys over 15 years.

             Alleged; declared or stated to be

McQueary went to Paterno and reported seeing Sandusky assaulting a young boy in the Penn State showers.
             Assault; a sudden violent attack

 

 

This article was abot the Penn State Footbal coach being fired. The aricle was very emotional and truthful to me. It showed alot of things that were not present to public untill now.

 

 

http://www.timesunion.com/sports/article/PSU-trustees-fire-Paterno-Spanier-2255989.php

 

Magnetic Poetry

TU Tuesday- Blog

My house, the coffee factory

http://blog.timesunion.com/highschool/




Matt Swint, the brother of the blog writer Abby Swint, is well known in his area. He roasts coffee beans. he has a roaster on his back orch and makes all kinds of coffee. My response to this is that i think it is great that someone can have such success and have so much thought through just a coffee bean. The family says that he will not quit once starting something.I think that with his determination he could do anything.

He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day

This proverb is special to me. When I was younger, I always would fight with my sister. We would go at it like we were starving wolves fighting for food. Once we started, we couldn't stop. Our parents would have to threaten us to get us to stop. Not bad threatening, but like your gonna be grounded threatening. We would then storm off to seperate parts of the house and mope the rest of the day. My dad would always say, He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day. He would explain that if i started to realize we were fighting, i could be the tough one and back away from it. Just like it said, I would be the one to run away, but i'd be back to fight again. This inspired me, now I can just walk away no problem and stay away from fights.

Absence Poetry

It was gone,
not a warning at all,
just walk out,
down through the hall.

She left,
no clue why,
just left because,
Walking into the bright sky.

Death is crazy,
death is unknown,
never to know,
Its a sweater unsewn.

Are You My Mother?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0394800184?ie=UTF8&tag=top.100-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0394800184

Whenever i see this book, I remember when i was around 5 years old. I loved this book, it was the only one I could read, I had it memorized. Everyday I would come home from school and read that same exact book. I rememeber when my mom came in to read me a book and I told her i was gonna read her a book. She was so happy, I remember exactly what she said.
"Austin you've made me so proud."
That made me feel so great, I was making my mom proud.

S= S.A Engineering College

5 reasons i would like to attend

1. 24 staff  have presented papers in conferences and 3 papers published in international journals. The staff is very knowledgable.
2. 73 Students won prizes in various events conducted in other colleges. The students learn and excell in the program.
3. They have many different options to select from.
4. I did not find the exacts, but enrollment is cheaper than anyone would expect for this school.
5. There is a diverse student body.

3 reasons i would not like to attend

1. The location.
2. Strict rules and regulations.
3. It was started in 1998, it is very new and might not be a great system or educational reference.

TU Tuesdays

http://blackboard.neric.org/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_2267_1%26url%3d

This article was about the use of tasers on the public. They say that Guilderland and Albany have over used tasers especially on blacks. This report stunned me. We are here worrying about tasers when the economy is going down the drain. $50,000 is a lot of money, but death is a lot more serious. They could have shot them and said they were doing something wrong, but the tased them. Whats the problem with that. If they aren't complying with the authority, the authority takes control, its been that way forever.

Love In Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"It was inevitable" I said as we were running and running.
"We wil never out run him!" My friend screamed as we were taking the corner.

We had nowhere to go. I knew the next turn led to a fence. It was either we face it, or we jump the fence. I didn't know what to do. I was running so fast by the time it took the turn, I was on the fence climbing as fast as i could.

"We did it!" My friend was already on the other side, yelling and screaming because he was save. But I was still struggling. It was about 3 feet away when I finally fell to my feet on the other side. So i thought it was the other side. I had gotten stuck on one of the posts and i fell the wrong way. I turned my head and it was right in front of me.

"What should i do!" I asked my friend.
"Dont move" My friend said trying to calm me down.

He was searching for something, he was going to get his attention by throwing a rock, but as it landed behind it, the thing didnt move, this dog was not moving. Then all of a sudden with a leap, it jumped in my lapp and it started licking me. All it wanted was to be friends.

Vintage Photo

First Flight

This phot means words to me because I am looking forward to going to college for engineering. This was one of the biggest if not the biggest engineering ffeats of its time period. They worked on this for so long, and when they finally got it flying, everybody knew. Engineering has always interested me in the past. I have alwyays loved to work on things, take apart engines, make a bird house, as long as I was working I would be having a blast forhours and hours. I also biked  a lot. This may not have any connection to the Wright brothers, but I always wondered why bikes can balance with us on them. As a kid I spent countless hours trying to steady my bike, but now I can ride with no hands. So why can it balance? Why could their plane fly without a motor or without some kind of power keeping it going? All it was was a couple sheets of strong fabric, some metal, and a platform for them to sit/lay on. These are answers i will eventually find out myself hopefully.

Haiku

Regreting the past,
Fixing the present in time,
Changing the future.

Poetry 180

Lesson

Forrest Hamer

It was 1963 or 4, summer,
and my father was driving our family
from Ft. Hood to North Carolina in our 56 Buick.
We'd been hearing about Klan attacks, and we knew
Mississippi to be more dangerous than usual.
Dark lay hanging from the trees the way moss did,
and when it moaned light against the windows
that night, my father pulled off the road to sleep.
                                                                  Noises
that usually woke me from rest afraid of monsters
kept my father awake that night, too,
and I lay in the quiet noticing him listen, learning
that he might not be able always to protect us
from everything and the creatures besides;
perhaps not even from the fury suddenly loud
through my body about his trip from Texas
to settle us home before he would go away
to a place no place in the world
he named Viet Nam. A boy needs a father
with him, I kept thinking, fixed against noise
from the dark.




It is a poem about the past. The poem explains the time of when racism was a big part of the country. If i hads to guess the line that said "We'd been hearing about Klan attacks, and we knew
Mississippi to be more dangerous than usual",was talking about the Ku Klux Klan. Racism was also huge in Mississippi. Although he did not use rhyme, I still cannot find anything else that he used besides just putting words into a poem. He did have ideas of how it was to be in that time period. How scary and dangerous it was.

Opinion Prompt Number 1.

Raising the pay of chief executive officers in bad economic times should be forbidden.

I do agree with this opinion. In my mind, when we give them money, it makes us look like we aren't even in their minds. It is like because we can't afford what they have, we shouldn't get more money. What makes it even worse is that when we are losing jobs, and losing money, and paying taxes, and even getting forclosed on our houses. We as americans need to come together and show these "rich" and 'wealthy" that there happen to be more important things like taxes, family, jobs, and school. I think that they need to start paying taxes and need to see how we live.

240

One day, when the preacher had plans, he walked down the stairwell to meet his date. But at the bottem, he remember he hadnt combed his hair. So he ran up the stairs and grabbed his comb. Upon going back down the stairwell, he remembered he forget his wallet. So once again he ran back up the stairwell and grabbed his coins. Opon openning the door, his date had left. He went back up the stairwell and did not return till the next day.

What good is a day...

What good is a day
With no sun or no rain
A kind of day
That nobody could explain.

What good is a day
With no plans
The lonely day
Of self pity.

What good is a day
When you get dumped by your girl
A crying and weeping day
Filled with no cheer.

What good is a day
Grounded in your room
Writing poems and such
Just wishing it could be over.

But what good is a day
Where everything goes perfect
That kind of day
Where the girl is the story

Web Gallery of Art

 

This picture caught my eye when I saw it. Not to say I like gory scenes or anything, but the guy stabbing the other guy in the back made me wonder. What did he do wrong? Why did he have to be stabbed? Couldn't he be put in jail? All these questions will be unanswered. But this image brought one other memory to my mind. I remember when i was in 8th grade. I was in Ms. Klumps health class. I was sitting with Elexius Prince, John Gillenwalters, and Morgan Kehn. We were talking about a project and I stole Elexius's pen. She got mad and said "Im gooing to stab you!" So i said, "DO IT!" And then she did.I now have a scar on my forearm from where she decided to jab her pen into my arm.

http://www.wga.hu/support/viewer/z.html

You Have A Yearning For Perfection (134 words).

Well, I guess I have a yearning for perfection. Let's see, what have i perfected? I have bowled a 300, I have hit a homerun, I have struck someone out, I have scored a goal, I have made the school bowling team. Are all those perfecting? I think not. Perfecting is impossible in this day and age, even in life. You will never perfect anything because someone will find something that is better. Even phones; what phone have you seen come out and be the best for over 3 months? Even when cops say they have perfected a national relief fund and warnings, yet hurricane Irene proved those "perfected" plans wrong. We still don't have the funds to help local Schoharie Valley homes and families to rebuild and prepare for what's to come next.

R, R, What begins with R.

Right and wrong? Right and left. Random acts of kindness would explain the right way to be. Ransom notes explaining the wrong way. Ranced smell of the skunk that sprayed Mrs. Geurin's dog. Rambling on and on in this blog post, starting every sentence with R. Reality check, not very easy! Reacting in such a manner could get me in trouble, whatever. Rapping and spitting to Lil Wayne. Really? Right on... Revolution brought us out of the "Hippy Days". Rough. Run away! Rats, he actually did. Rap is better then country, wait, no it isnt! Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream. Random? "Ruff", thats what my dog said today. Randomly, im ending this post. Really, goobye.

Poem

Every so often
I can hardly rememeber the sound of your voice
     But losing you
     Was completly my choice

     Don't think ill be back
     Don't think i'll leave what I have
     Not rememebering anything at all
     Nothing about what we had

     Its part of the past
     Just leave it be
     It wouldnt have lasted
     That I could see

     Things were changing
     Changing rapid
     Leaving you
     Felt like acid

     Now I know
     It was the right choice
     My own being was way ahead
     Of that missing voice

     No more will I regret
     The disapearance of you
     No more will I fret
     Ending us two

     Happiness has taken
     Entered my life
     Soothing feeling
     Knowing it was right

     I'll never ask again
     To have you back
     Because my love
     Is something you'll lack



  

10 Things You Didn't Know About Austin.

1. I have bowled a 300.

2. I have donate a total of over 650 dollars to a charity called Forgotten Voices.

3. I have college credit for RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology).

4. I have 2 dogs (Maxx and Micci) and 1 cat (Patches).

5. I have 2 sisters (Ashlyn 17, Alexa 15) Alexa and I are twins. (We have different birthdays).

6. I have only been out of state 4 times (Connecticut, Deleware, Florida, and Pennsylvania)

7. I like country, rap, deathcore, heavy metal, hardcore, and "screamo".

8. I spend my summers mowing lawns and landscaping.

9. I like fishing, bowling, baseball, football, lacrosse, and golf.

10. I like to read intruiging books.