Assignment 5 - Parallel Poems

CLAYTON HALBERT

Sun shined                                                                                                   Lights shined

 summer  wind blew                                                                                  whistle blew

 dust down the avenue.                                                                            Dirt flew down the field

trucks moved through it                                                                          I moved through it all

while the child gazed.                                                                              While the quarterback stood crippled

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Jaclyn Largin

I twist my heart round

So the bad is on the outside

The good on the inside

Trying to find a way

To be what I would lie,

If there weren’t people living in the world.

1-      I twist my heart round

           to cover from any sorrow.

         So not even I get to my heart.

           You want a way in

          But I have to let you.

             Maybe I could

        If there weren’t so much

        sorrow living in the world.

2-      You twist me,

To better me.

But what am I

To only beat.

You’re the controller

I’m the holder.

Time wears you down

As it does me.

But you see,

I still happily and strongly beat.

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Loey Peete

Faith 

Confidence in things hoped for

Assurance about things unseen

Past generations earned a good reputation    

Worlds framed by the word of God  

Abel still speaks by example                              

Enoch was taken up without dying                  

Impossible to please without

Noah saved his family from the flood              

Abraham went without knowing his destination

Looking forward to a city with eternal foundations

Sarah believed God would keep His promise  

Now there is no way to count them 

People died still believing His promises

Looking for a heavenly homeland

Abraham was ready to sacrifice his only son

And, in a sense, received him back from the dead

Joseph said confidently that Israel would leave Egypt

Moses’ parents were not afraid to disobey the king’s command

Moses chose to share the oppression of God’s people  

He was looking ahead to his great reward

Israel walked on dry ground

But all the Egyptians drowned

The walls of Jericho came crashing down

Rahab was not destroyed with the people in her city

All earned a good reputation

Yet none of them received all that was promised

There was something better in mind for us

Parents

Confidence in kindness hoped for    

Assurance about things not deserved

Past pairs earned their respect from selflessness            

Love framed by the words of forgiveness        

Patience still speaks by example

Cherished moments taken up without notice

Impossible to not give out

Saves his family from the floods

She prays without knowing their destination  

Looking forward to a day when they have secure foundations

Even when I don’t keep my promise

Trustworthy is the way they count me

And they still believe our next promises

Looking for our hearts, they know them

People ready to sacrifice their only life

And, in a sense, receive it back through their children

Have said confidently that they will never leave

People not afraid to disobey the world’s demands

They choose to share the oppression given to us by other people

They are looking ahead to the best reward

Sometimes they walk on dry ground for us

But pick us up when we drown

The walls of the world may come crashing down

But destroyed, their children will not be

They earn a good reputation

Yet none of them receive all that they deserve

Because there was something better in mind for their children

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Auston Wingard

White-tailed deer, bucks and does,

more than one bedding site.

In pine's, old fields,

river and creek bottoms,

or in the forest,

they spend most of their time in a bedroom.

Eating clover, a buck vanishes into the timber.

He gradually scales the slope

and knows his destination.

He reaches the knoll, circles and stops.

Legs positioned

He lowers his chest into a classic deer bed.

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Baseball players, children and adults,

more than one playing field.

In city parks, backyards, 

high schools and colleges,

or in a dome,

they spend most of their time practicing.

Striking out, a player vanishes into the dugout.

He gradually scales the diamond

and knows his position.

He reaches the mound, toes the rubber and spits.

Legs positioned

He raises his hands into a classic wind up.    

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Destiny Dillard
Gazing at the edge of the pond,                                      Looking off the edge of a cliff,                                         
I felt an eternal bond,                                                    I felt a sudden scare,
Saw my image, water bound,                                         Saw myself, merely flesh and bones,
A mirage craning bound to the ground.                          Plummeting to the ground.                       




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Austin Davis

I have a dream

for the red hills of Georgia

I have a dream

for the state of Mississippi

I have a dream

that this nation will rise up

I have a dream

of an oasis of freedom

I have a dream

that men are created equal

I have a dream

for former slaves and their sons

I have a dream

of a table of brotherhood

I have a dream

for my four little children

I have a dream today.

I had a nightmare

of red trucks spewing water

I had a nightmare

in my state of Alabama

I had a nightmare

of a nation sunk down deep

I had a nightmare

of a desert of imprisonment

I had a nightmare

that my people could not call themselves equal

I had a nightmare

of white men and their sons

I had a nightmare 

we could not even share their water

I had a nightmare

about my four little children

I had a nightmare last night.

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Chase Payne

The farm was more prosperous now

Two enlarged fields, windmills, a

threshing machine

a hay elevator, and many buildings.

Animals were hard at work

Building another windmill,

The dynamos will be installed.

The luxuries of which Snowball had

once talked about,

Were no longer talked about.

Napoleon denounced such ideas,

Saying,the truest happiness,

 Lays in working hard and living

frugally.

The Party was bumping now

Two stereo systems

Chips and dip

A plasma T.V.

And plenty of the woman variety.

My boys were hard at work

Building a pool for everyone.

The girls would surely jump in,

But the luxuries my boys strived for

Were no longer expected.

The girls said goodbye.

As they were leaving they said

We should have never came,

We are going back home.

Jonathan Rochester 

A women so beautiful,                                 

With all advantages but luck,

Birthed boney children,

And showed them no love,

No one saw this,

But her and her kids.

A tiny little town,

With all the right places,

Yet a young man could not stand,

All the tight spaces,

He had to move away,

And has no place to say,

This is my home,

Its where I belong. 

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Grant Martin

I turned to the voice that spoke

I saw one like the Son of Man

Clothed in

A long robe

A Golden sash

His hair white as wool

His eyes like a mighty fire

His feet as bronze

As He held seven stars, his voice roared

From His mouth came a two edged sword

And His face like the sun shined brightly.

I turned to the man beside me

I saw a face I did not know

Among him

A woman

A child

His body stood strong

His presence even stronger

As his wife weeped

He held several names, He cried angrily

 From his mouth came words of disbelief and sorrow.

The names he held now cease to live. 

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Jana Armstrong

A lifelong surfer,

Felt at home in the sea.

One fateful morning,

A shark emerged from the depths.

Her life changed

In the blink of an eye.

Reaching the shore,

Her left arm gone,

Never surf again?

Faith and determination

Reclaimed the title.

A long time criminal,

Felt lost in his sin.

One fateful friendship,

Brought him out of the depths.

His life changed

In a drastic way.

Reaching the end,

His sins all gone,

Never run again?

Faith and new direction

Reclaimed his life.

Faith

Confidence in things hoped for

Assurance about things unseen

Past generations earned a good reputation

Worlds framed by the word of God  

Abel still speaks by example                        

Enoch was taken up without dying      

Impossible to please without

Noah saved his family from the flood 

Abraham went without knowing his destination

Looking forward to a city with eternal foundations

Sarah believed God would keep His promise

Now there is no way to count them

People died still believing His promises

Looking for a heavenly homeland

Abraham was ready to sacrifice his only son

And, in a sense, received him back from the dead

Joseph said confidently that Israel would leave Egypt

Moses’ parents were not afraid to disobey the king’s command

Moses chose to share the oppression of God’s people  

He was looking ahead to his great reward

Israel walked on dry ground

But all the Egyptians drowned

The walls of Jericho came crashing down

Rahab was not destroyed with the people in her city

All earned a good reputation

Yet none of them received all that was promised

There was something better in mind for us



Parents

Confidence in kindness hoped for    

Assurance about things not deserved

Past pairs earned their respect from selflessness            

Love framed by the words of forgiveness        

Patience still speaks by example

Cherished moments taken up without notice

Impossible to not give out

Saves his family from the floods

She prays without knowing their destination  

Looking forward to a day when they have secure foundations

Even when I don’t keep my promise

Trustworthy is the way they count me

And they still believe our next promises

Looking for our hearts, they know them

People ready to sacrifice their only life

And, in a sense, receive it back through their children

Have said confidently that they will never leave

People not afraid to disobey the world’s demands

They choose to share the oppression given to us by other people

They are looking ahead to the best reward

Sometimes they walk on dry ground for us

But pick us up when we drown

The walls of the world may come crashing down

But destroyed, their children will not be

They earn a good reputation

Yet none of them receive all that they deserve

Because there was something better in mind for their children