Poetry.

1. Limericks Ghazals Ballads Free Verse What is it? Sonnets Songs Epics Poetry. Odes By Kyle Hudson, Rebecca Thomason, Gavin Shelton

2. A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. • Diane Ackerman

3. Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense. • Isaac Barrow

4. The task of the poet is not to describe what actually happened, but the kind of thing that might happen according to probability or necessity … For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history. • Aristotle

5. Poetry is the expression of ones soul through extravagant language. Kyle Hudson, Gavin Shelton, Rebecca Thomason

6. Lonesome Tree The dark and torn land before me Crying and weeping in agony But there, I see A sole lonesome tree There it stood A thin willow of white wood Sad and alone In a land, dry as a bone. Gavin Shelton

7. The Rainbow. • Red is a color in a rainbow…it’s the color of the blood dripping down his skull. • Orange is the next color in a rainow…its also the color of his cheetofested fingernails • Yellow is the next color in the rainbow…its also the color of my joy when I find his body. • Green is the next color in a rainbow…it’s the envy I feel that I did something like that • Blue is the next color in a rainbow…its also the color of my feelings • Purple is the next color in a rainbow…its also the color of bruise she got yesterday • Black may not be a color in a rainbow, but it’s the color of the murder in my heart • Just Kidding! Rebecca Thomason

8. Hunter. • Get out of bed, put on the days wear • Grab thy sheath and thy shield, secure. • The day is a new, fresh, with the smell of evil and monster • His job, adventure, is to slay them. • He, with his blade and shield, is proud of the labor he works. • Kyle Hudson

9. And as all things must begin, all things must end. And this here…. This is the end of this presentation.