My thoughts

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My thoughts
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Introduction

• I appreciate it that you have given me your
  time for reading my work. Im very proud that
  Ive accomplished so much this year. In this
  portfolio there are 5 sections followed by 15
  works of writing, included in this are 4
  justification questions about how I feel about my
  writing. I hope you enjoy reading my writing as
  much as I enjoyed writing them!!.

Table of Contents
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Table of Contents

• Portfolio 2
• Acting like a child
• Redemption
• Love Stinks
• Give me color, Or give me death
• Love Stinks
• Questions that will never be answered
• The Truth
• Take a picture
• In the Field
• The night my Knight came home

• Portfolio 1
• Water world
• Protesting at the Pond
• Free write
• 10 years from now
• Object perspective
• Moving to Virginia
• 1st and last kiss
• Christmas, He was, and my savior
• Reflection Questions

• Portfolio 3
• Journal Entry 1
• Journal Entry 2
• Journal Entry 3
• Journal Entry 4
• Journal Entry 5
• Writing Assignment
• Poetry
• Additional Work
• Reflections

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Water World
Every person would survive with having gills
behind their ears and ultimately feeding and
living off of sea life. A woman would have a
4-feet long fish like tail and every one would
have different colors depending on their families
colors. (kind of like a kilt color per family).
Men would have 5 to 6 feet long tails. Each
family would live in a cave under the sea near
the main port or city. There were schools held in
open water often shallow to see and have light.
The students would sit on their assigned rocks
and learn basic things like history of their
kingdom, proper language, math, science of the
sea and one extra course of their choice.
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Protest at the Pond
Down at the fishing hole gathered thousands of
protesters protesting Fish and animal rights.
Signs were painted and people were as red hot as
lava with anger. When the cops arrived they tried
to be polite but it finally had to come down to
jostling the crowd. It even came down to a woman
taking off her high heels and beating the cops
and pleading them to let go of her. Many people
were wounded and seriously hurt by the brutality
of the police men. But the police men were order
to be as brutal as ever everyone's favorite
major Major Donleavy. He was the major
responsible for ever thing that went on in this
little town. The protest finally got up from
their 34 hour sit in and went to Donleavys home
there they waited for him to answer the door, but
no luck. Finally one of the angry protesters got
a huge log out of no where and started at the
door. Pounding it and pounding it repeatedly.
Until finally what they thought was to be a door
opening was a car of the majors staring. We ran
around to the side of the home and found Donleavy
was driving of and right in their direction.
Luckily only one women was hurt. The same women
who threw her shoe at the cop. Karma sucks I
guess and with that Donleavy got away with
another crime.
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Free write
He was a new boy from Iowa and I was a girl
determined to stay away from any relationships
this year and focus finally upon school work. But
as soon as he met my eyes I was gravy. He has a
mahogany brown to his hair and gorgeous matching
eyes. He was the perfect height for me about 54.
Not to tall and not to short. He was in the pit
because he entered band to late and he actually
played the trumpet. The only problem was that he
was a freshman and me a junior. We were only a
year apart in age but a lifetime away in school.
I didnt talk to him until three or four weeks
from then on not until the first competition.
After we won 3rd place we got on the bus all mad
at ourselves and just pouted until McGee came on
the bus. He told us to try better next time and
we did great. Great? How could we have been
great if we got 3rd??? Anyways I was tired of
sitting in the back with all the juniors yelling
at each other and blaming themselves for the
third place title. So I went up to the front with
the drumline and pit and there were only two
seats opening. Either sit with David
(ex-boyfriend) or Mikenew cute freshman. Well I
sat next to him and begun talking and we both
felt like we knew each other since birth and
Eventually an hour into the bus ride I feel
asleep on his shoulder and had the best nap since
kindergarten.
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10 years from now
I would be living in uptown New York city with
two children named Ayden Kenneth ..and Elizabeth
Ann.. My husband would be working for the stock
market and myself would be working for the New
York Times. In our 5th Avenue Apartment complete
with 3 bedrooms and kitchen, 2bathrooms and 2
living rooms and one office is were a 3 family
and dog (pixie), hamster (buttons) and fish kin,
fin, bin, pop) all live. I would work from 730
a.m till 330 p.m just in time to drop off and
pick up the kids from school and my husband
worked from 730 till 400 p.m .
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Object Perspective
She grabbed me and my sisters and even the twins
from the closet and brought us outside. I watched
her stretch and run a lap around the parking lot.
After that she set me and my sisters all on our
yard lines. First all they did was a musical run
through that included me, the cousins, and the
twins. Then he said a real run through so she ran
us all back to our places and me to the 45 yard
line to begin. She played with me for a little
then with my first cousin then back to me then my
older sister and the twins then my younger
brother and my second cousin twice removed. Then
we were all done with playing so she rolled us up
together all nice and snug and put us into our
closet again until tomorrow to come out and smile.
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Coming to Virginia
The bleak cold of winter has finally starting to
die down and my nose if I still had one was
breathable through and it only got worse from
there. My dog and I were in the back of the
hunter green pick-up truck that we had since I
was six and inside was my brother, my mom, my dog
and me. I really didnt know what to expect when
I started school or what to expect of the people.
I really didnt know when I would be back. My
father seemed happy that I was leaving that I
would be in a better place. I didnt agree with
him one bit. This new place I had never been to
never wanted to go to, and never want to live
there. But I guess that idea is out the window.
My dog had just waken up and he looked like he
was drunk, but that is just they way he looks. He
is an English bulldog brown, white and smelly.
He's been with us for about three years and is my
right hand man. It was about sunset and it was
the coldest time of the day and I was just waking
up. My mother suggested we leave at 300 in the
mourning because we would have to arrive in the
mourning for breakfast. Me and my brother were
indifferent to getting another step-dad after
all this was number 3 in husband tally. The
Virginia welcome sign just passed and was upset
and excited for many reasons. Excited because I
would finally have a new bed and pist because I
wasnt home.
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Non-sense in the garden
The superfluous flowers Were growing like
towers The beladiss,yarsaws, treks Were
blooming up to the decks Nampmy-pampy was
playing After all shes the prophetess yall were
saying Hipmotized by the microliths daze She was
a creaming and shouting through the maze The
sweet smell of lachrymose Was treating her
disease by the dose The panhelium of the flowers
Was staring to make her run like a coward All
of this punk-munk Is not making sense, whod a
thunk All of these words need to stop Before the
make my brain go POP
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1st and Last kiss

We danced for some But talked for more At the
end of the night We ran out the door You pulled
me in close And gave me my first kiss It was so
quick I was lost I didnt know those feelings
exist In the middle of a puddle You got down on
one knee Fiddled something in your pocket I saw a
diamond the size of a pea You said no words None
had to be said Because I knew what I wanted You
and no man instead
We were friends since birth Eating crayons and
sand Occasionally mud-pies And other parts of the
earth Through grade school Past middle and
junior Then came the big one The worst years of
them all We stopped playing outside We stopped
tricker-treating Them came the girls and
buys Nothing but lying and cheating Through
fights, breakups, and bad grades We were there
for each other Then senior prom came along And
you asked no others

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More Writings
Whatever you do, dont Whatever you do,
dont Youll regret it that minute You be by
yourself all alone Youll lose it all Youll
never get it back No matter what you do When its
gone its gone You have no one to turn to You
wont miss it at first Not until they start to
know Theyll bother and bug you And ask you why
you lost your glow Youll be ashamed Youll feel
like nothing When you let it go Youve lost that
one special something
I dont understand I dont understand Why girls
are scared Why theyre afraid to be
themselves Why they dont act normal But most of
all Why guys change how a girl acts Why girls
give into the stereotypes Why they are loosing
self-respect What I understand most is Why some
girls have strength Why some flowers are late
bloomers Why waiting is worth waiting
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Reflections part 1

• The most challenging piece of righting to create
  was the memoir because I have many memories that
  I wanted to write about but I couldn't exactly
  pick one. Then came the challenge of how to start
  it and when to end it. The beginning was very
  hard for me because I was a little nervous about
  sharing this memory and how it would react to the
  reader and if the reader would like it and get
  hooked.
• I am very proud of my first and last kiss poem
  mainly because it is my 4th piece of writing that
  I have ever gotten published. I like that it
  sometimes rhythms and doesnt . I have been stuck
  in the idea that all poems have to rhythm and Im
  proud of myself for breaking that rule.
• My mystery was a good story but it didnt seem
  realistic and as interesting as my memoir and I
  didnt quite finish it in time and Im
  disappointed in that. It was also a very long
  story .
• Free writing
• Eventually an hour into the bus ride I feel
  asleep on his shoulder and had the best nap since
  kindergarten.
• Object Perspective
• She played with me for a little then with my
  first cousin then back to me then my older sister
  and the twins then my younger brother and my
  second cousin twice removed
• Memoir (Coming to Virginia)
• The Virginia welcome sign just passed and was
  upset and excited for many reasons. Excited
  because I would finally have a new bed and mad
  because I wasnt home.

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Acting like a child

• About 20 minutes after the last bus arrived to
  bring them home from school they were outside
  outside even though they were told and told time
  after time to stay in with the rain and storms
  coming. They couldnt and didnt understand it at
  the time but they were relieving their stress of
  all day. They were always outside even in the
  rain. They didnt care about the dangers that
  lurked everywhere, lightning, abduction, or even
  the idea of them falling and scraping their
  knees. I wanted to be like them. I wanted to have
  the sense and feeling just to play. I didnt want
  to care what people thought of me or if I feel I
  wouldnt be afraid and look around to see if
  anybody saw just be myself and have fun. They had
  something that I could never reach or see.

• They had freedom and confidence. The thing that
  made them kids and the thing I never could feel
  after I went to middle school. A middle school
  where growing up and being cool was cool but I
  lost my child hood to trying to fit in.

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Redemption
I see you walking with her And you try not to
look sad But all I can see is you and her All
happy and it makes me glad Glad or happy its
all the same Im just at peace to know your
free I found someone better and nice And our
relationship, I know its right to be Hes
sweet, funny, and he makes me happy I see you
walking with her Who cares if he is my race All I
see is his wonderful face I stopped seeing
colors after you And you try not to look sad But
now your only upset Because I with my perfect
man
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Give me Color, Or give or give me death
Why should I sit here in pain Knowing your so
vain You get your daily fix from me And you have
nothing to be You say Im boring and lazy Well,
I think your mean and crazy I have a mind that
can wonder It can think on its own and ponder I
have power to be anything And my mind can do
everything I can be red with rage Their going to
have to lock me in a cage I can be green with
envy Well... I just can be I can be as blue as
the sky And get so far Ill get a high My
feelings are like a rainbow That you could never
overthrow
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Love stinks

• I believe love should not be taken lightly. It
  can make or break an entire school year,
  friendships, team, or worse someone's life could
  end in an instant. We can never tell the power
  that love can install into a person. I have
  fallen in love and in a span of one phone cal it
  can end. They have stupid reasons fro breaking
  your heart. Either they found something better
  oryeah they found something better. The three
  words are always said to much to be taken
  seriously to more. Ive said it only once and I
  meant it. I dont like to be honest but here it
  goes.
• I love you is eight letters long.but so is bull
  st

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Questions that will never be answered
Why shall we feel small in such a small space Why
should a person be afraid to walk outside of
their own home Why is it intimating to look
someone in the face What is scary about a world
that we created Why should we be afraid of the
earth Why are we all scared since our own
birth Who is so scary that we need to use a
gun Why is violence always the answer Why are
these fights and wars never done Where will
there be peace among nations Why is religion and
color such a big problem Why is it so hard to
give time and your patience When will our nation
give the people their peace Why is it so hard to
give up your pride Why will the fighting never
seize How do you expect to act together Why our
children will be lost Why a nation can not agree
together
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The Truth
We live to only be born We love to only be
hurt We kill just to feel power We die just to be
reborn
We fall just to feel the wind We laugh just to
show emotion We cry only to receive pity We write
to show we are human
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Take a picture
Take a picture Because I will thrive Take a
picture To keep the moment alive Take a
picture For a lonely day Take a picture And to
keep the fears away Take a picture To keep you
joking Take a picture To keep you from
croaking
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It all happened when we started to play. We had
just moved here from New York and we didnt know
anyone, it was just me and you. We had friends
back home and we loved to play and be free with
them. But when we moved down here we were the
outcasts. The only time we saw a gun was when we
were hunting for food or when water came from the
end of it. Down here you see them everyday and
there is always a death happening. We were
playing in the street and that was after dinner
right before dark when it happened. We didnt
think it was a trouble to be outside at dark but
momma warned us. The car sped by and I heard
nothing you started to pull be back home but I
heard nothing and it felt like my feet were
planted in the ground. You were hurt and as soon
as I saw the blood all of the sounds came back to
my ears. The sirens came screaming towards me as
I cradled you in my arms crying and screaming
your name trying to keep you awake but it was no
good. All I prayed for that night you left was
to be back home. Back home in the fields playing
and laughing like we were young again. But it
will never happen we will never be in our field
again. Safe from harm and all the pain I went
through when you left. The daisies underneath us
as we ran around. The air that smelt as nice as
sweet and innocent as mom and the clouds that
were all different and the sun that would keep us
company all day and let us know when it was time
to go home. But it is all gone lie you are too.
The fields that were parts of our lives together
as brother and sister. I hear they are tearing up
the ground to make a mini-mall and I guess when
you left all things beautiful left also.
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The night my Knight came home
How was it only night When you came home After
the great fight With blood all over you You came
through that door And I didnt know what to do I
was told of your death And cried all my tears And
had breathed my last breath Then you said not
one word Because no words had to be said But we
couldnt help with what occurred You came home
to me that night And gave me your heart to be
mine And now I can live peacefully with my
knight
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Reflections part two

• I have grown more as a writer I have
• learned to be not afraid of what I may write
• and to be more stable in my writing in order for
  it to make
• sense. I have learned to be not so dependent on
  a thesaurus
• and just to write about what I am thinking. Also
  that
• shouldnt just care about what people might
  think when they
• read it and just let it be.
• I can apply my ability to write on a moments
  notice and also to write with honesty and
  truthfulness I can bring to my writing.
• I like personally The truth because I like
  that it doesnt rhythm and rhyming has been in
  almost all of my writings and I like how I kind
  of went outside of my box to work on my poetry.
• I believe not letting what others might think let
  my writing to be affected. And also to be not so
  restricted on one idea of poetry to free
  open-minded.
• My strengths that Ive gained through writing
  have been my abilities to manage my time and to
  put time an work into my writing. And to always
  make sure that you write with your heart and mind
  open and to never hold back just because, you
  might be scared of what people might say or do.
• I need to develeop more as a writer in my
  htoughts. Ican never write about what I am really
  thinking because it is so hard to put it down
  into words. Also the fact I need to expand into
  more genres and come out of everything and try
  something new like sci-fi or horror I never
  really write about them. And I feel like I need
  to brooden my horizens.