Tomorrow Begins a New Day

Author's Note: In book club we are partially focusing on poetry.  We started simple and read Robert Frost's Nothing Gold Can Stay.  Then we went over the mode, theme, and symbolism and any questions about the poem.  We were challenged to write a poem parallel to Robert Frost's but with different mode, theme, and symbolism.  I thought that this was somewhat difficult but with some help I managed to write one. 

Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost

Nature's first green is cold
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her first leaf's a flower,
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Tomorrow Begins a New Day by Mai Vo

Death’s last breath is slow
Something so soon to go
Snow will peacefully fall
With no other sound at all
Then darkness struck by light
Reveals a starry night
Death - cold, still and grey --
Tomorrow begins a new day

The Whole Picture

Author's Note:  I love looking at pictures on National Geographic and I found this one.  It's beautiful and I love way and time that this pictures was taken.  The reflection of the mountain on the lake is amazing and the colors in the sky at sunrise are so radiant.  In this poem I'm working on a better description for the picture. 

Matterhorn

The sun just begins to rise above

the horizon

Sending beams of pink, blue, and purple

in the sky

The majestic mountain stands tall

on the lake

Snow-capped, broad, powerful

like the kings land

The lake shimmers like diamonds

as it sits still

Looking out I see a mirror, reflecting

the sunrise, mountain,

and the sum of its parts

Perspective

Author's Note: I found the picture below on National Geographic.  When I saw this picture I thought it was a black bird with a yellow beak and legs and it was flying above a sidewalk with rose petals.  I showed it to Ashton and she thought it looked like a biker, I didn't see that.  The picture is called Cyclist, Dublin.  It really made me think about the perspective of things and how everyone will see something different.  

 Perspective

Clouds, I may see

A bunny

You may see

A tree

Point of view

Gives different meaning

To a story,

 a picture,

a scene

It makes the everybody, everything

Unique

A scribble to me

Can be art to you

Shadows

Either a bird or a plane

Perspective
Makes everything special in
a different way
And shows the world in
a million views

Mount Rainier

Author's Note: I felt like doing a short poem so I decided to do a haiku.  A haiku is a poem usually about nature and the lines are five, seven, and five syllables.  I like to go on National Geographic and look at the nature pictures for ideas. 

Mount Rainier Seattle, WA

Great, snow-capped mountains

Blossomed flowers, swaying grass

A picturesque scene