Casey Warren
Insomnia
Tikulli
Night comes wrapped in raven wings
and it it's solitary loveliness
like forbidden lovers
the mind and heart meet
thoughts stumble on each other
like perplexed mass
strange voices touched with pain
glide past each other like spirits
sleep eludes me in your presence
and in absence, tears keep it at bay
I lie still
in silent mirages of hope
the illusionist takes over
a world streams out of me
and dissolves in me
dreams rise and wall
like ovean waves
quiescent I watch
This poem shows how lack of sleep can affect a person. Throughout the novel Winterdance, Gary Paulsen is dealing with a mojor lack of sleep where he hallucinates and doesn't remember things. It shows how he's feeling when he is beginning to drift into a different state.
Finest Companions
Curtis Surovy
Adventuring up blue ice mountains
panting dogs conquer the frozen slope
where firgid air like thorns in the lungs doubles you.
With whistle signal sled travelers halt,
dismount and approach the humble beasts,
bare fingers course through frozen fur's sharp edges.
Their prideful stature spent, thses finest companions
now compliant with loose tongues fapping, bellies grounded
blow out exhaustion with every breath
until standing again the hounds bark readiness
to descend, tails wagging.
I chose this poem to represent Winterdance because it really shows and explains the way that the sled dogs act and the way that they are. It also sounds like it's coming from the musher's point of view and shows how the musher feels about his or her dogs. This poem shows how the dogs are always ready and happy to go.
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Allie Miller
Snow & Ice
Quincy Troupe
Ice sheets sweep this slick mirrored dark place
space as keys that turn in tight, trigger
pain of situations
where we move ever so slowly
so gently into time - traced agony
the bright turning of imagination
so slowly
grooved through revolving doors, opening up to enter
mountains where spirits walk voices, ever so slowly
swept by cold, breathing fire
as these elliptical moments of illusion
link fragilr loves sunk deep in snows as footprints
the coice prints cold black gesticulations
bone bare voices
chewed skeletal choices
in fangs of piranha gales
spewing out silvers of raucous laughter
glinting bright as hard polished silver nails.
This poem shows how difficult it can be out in the freezing snow and ice just like Gary Paulsen experiences on his adventure ride through the Iditarod. In this poem, it says multiple times that everything is so slow, relating to the fact that Gary's dogs can sometimes be going slow in the snow and ice.
Works Cited:
" Snow & Ice - Poem by Quincy Troupe." Famous Poets and Poems - Read and Enjoy Poetry.
Web. 14 Mar. 2011.
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Marissa Goetz
Called Alaska
by Theresa F Koch
The air is so crisp it teases my very senses
new growth twists abounding about my feet
pinesmells flaot whimsically around in the wind
here one could get lost in the forests time
Birds sing a hurried song for all that will hear
while off in the distance a lone gray wolf calls
mother moose quietly feeds openly on the willows
whiles bear eats readily upon the blue berry bushes
The rail cars whistle is echoing on old canyon walls
only this disturbs this ancient places alluring peace
walking i hope not to disturb natures hearts pendulum
Silence! earth is giving birth at this very moment
Spring sweet how with graxe i enjoy thee
this second happily viewing your fragrant skin
love truly is in you here in this wondrous place
this harch yet beautiful place on earth called Alaska
I This poem described the essence of Alaska very well, and with great detail. It really paints Alaska as a beautiful place. At the beginning, this poem talks about the animals in Alaska relating to the wolf story in Winter Dance. This poem also talks about someone being afraid to interrupt the peace of Alaska, which can be related to Gary and how the racing may distrub the peace of the envirement.
Works Cited :
"Called Alaska poem) by Theresa F Koch on AuthorsDen." AuthorDen. Wed. 14 Mar. 2011