Sarena+Shuman


 * "A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom"- Robert Frost **

=** __Opposites Attract__ **=
 * By: Sarena Shuman **


 * He is the moth balls in granny house hold **
 * He is the scum between my gorgeous toes **
 * The very pit of the dump smelling so old **
 * He is the very curve the gangstas pose **
 * He is what they call sadly, cancerus **


 * She is a girl when gone many will miss **
 * She is a fresh breakfast that we all lust **
 * A satisfaction as soft as a kiss **
 * A swift gentle soft swipe, by a cool breeze **
 * O, she is a lovely pink lily, the nice cure **


 * He is allergic to her, forms a sneeze **
 * Ahh, was mumbled gazing in her eyes so pure **
 * Them together, oh, it is love itself **
 * He and she forms what we call love of weath **

=** __Strength at it's Best__ **=
 * By: Sarena Shuman **


 * 5'4 inches of strength **
 * Mind like Einstein **
 * The thick ball of beauty **
 * Smell like fresh flowers and honey sector **
 * You **
 * Oh,No **
 * Words can't describe **
 * Take care of us **
 * Take care of me **
 * You love unconditionally **
 * Without you I don't know where I would be **
 * You make my temperature rise **
 * Make my eyes roll so far in the back of my head **
 * But **
 * I look up to you and what you do **
 * Your words of wisdom, so true and stern **
 * <span style="color: #9502d9; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You Tell me I'm a go and be better than you **
 * <span style="color: #9502d9; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's hard to pull off **
 * <span style="color: #9502d9; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I admire you **
 * <span style="color: #9502d9; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I really do **
 * <span style="color: #9502d9; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mom your the example of great. **

= **__Raised__** = **By: Sarena Shuman**

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">See us ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">See this ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We are thick ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In all the right places ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Have him coming back for more" ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Type of women ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I want this ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I want that ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Im buy this ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And im damn sure wearing that ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"O i got it, im pay for it" ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Independent type of women **

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Line dancing ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shake that Bootay ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Drop it like it's hot ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"You wanna dance sweety" ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Take charge type of woman **

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Party hard ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Clean ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Break a nail ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fold them clothes ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"What you like to eat" ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Care for you type of sister **

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Im going to eat this ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'm going get my hair done ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nails with fresh designs ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fresh out the shower ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jeans and shirt pressed so tight ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Do I Look good" ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Type of girl **

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Free spirited ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mind real sharp ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dancer ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Artist ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Who you talking to?" ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Supportive ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"I have to study" ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"I Love you" ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Breed of gal **

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was Raised by Experts! **

= **__Eww Land!__** = **By: Sarena Shuman**

**The pain** **It moves from an achpello group called toes to the last hair on wild oak tree** **Every ligament and bone in the forest aches and pouts** **This rush** **Going through the world,** **Is utterly foul** **O The annoying sounds coming from this slouching place** **No body can understand** **This woman named throat is so damn rude!** **She’s like an infant at chuckee cheese** **Loud, rambunctious, and annoying** **Entering Snot Lake is a place where no one is allowed.** **They say there are boogiemen running around** **It screeches a lot there** **And everyone utter words that no one can understand** **God bless you god bless you** **Like Pause, What ARE YOU SAYING!** **Stuff like that** **It gets worst.** **I wake up from a dream** **And wipe the snot off my face** **Back to sleep I go**

= **__Author Statement__** = **My poetry is thought, and feelings, Sarena's own pazzaz and style. I'm a professional writer in my head, just because I love poetry. I don't rhyme, I don't have a specific way of writing my poem. I write what I fee,l the tone and how dramatic it is depend on how I write the poem. One line stanzas, You know the words or phrase is important. I try to be unique and creative. Also, I learn from the greatest and newest poets. Poetry is thoughts and feelings on paper, expressed how ever way you want. I call myself the free spirit poet.**

code I, too, sing America.
 * <span class="TITLE" style="color: #cc6600; font-family: verdana,arial,'lucida sans',helvetica,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">I, Too, Sing America ||||  ||
 * by <span style="color: #336699; font-family: verdana,arial,'lucida sans',helvetica,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-decoration: none;">[|Langston Hughes] ||

I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong.

Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then.

Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed--

I, too, am America. code || ** In the poem I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes. The author creates images in your head by the use of imagery and sarcasm. It has different tone levels, and mystery. Makes the reader want to dig in more, even when there is nothing left to read. The poem is about how an African American man, can't eat with white folk. The author feels so strong about this. The author sounds old- fashioned because racism is in the way. It's segregation, and un fair treatment exists. It's funny how he says “today they send me to the back to eat my food, and then tomorrow or next day he going eat with them at the table”. His imagination is beautiful but the structure is also. The structure of the poem is simple. Their isn't much rhyme schemes, but he does have stanza with a couple lines, then another stanza with 1 line. But the one-line stanzas give you that since of how important they are. There is not much repetition, kitchen is a word that repeats, and it’s the main focus point and story of the poem. Capitalization is used every new line, also punctuation is frequent. The lines are five words long, but nothing more. They are mostly short and straight to the point. Every stanza he changes his tone and the way things are. The author tone to me is very wishful, strong, stern, confident, and with a little splash of sarcasm. I feel like he knows that he is not going to be able to sit at the same eating table with them. Creates an image in my head, I chose a funny approach. All I can see is the white people face, shocked and stunned. When he said Tomorrow, I'll be at the table. When company comes. Langston Hughes wants to be noticed because he is a beautiful African American man. ** code I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.
 * <span class="TITLE" style="color: #cc6600; font-family: verdana,arial,'lucida sans',helvetica,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Life is Fine ||||  ||
 * by <span style="color: #336699; font-family: verdana,arial,'lucida sans',helvetica,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-decoration: none;">[|Langston Hughes] ||

I came up once and hollered! I came up twice and cried! If that water hadn't a-been so cold I might've sunk and died.

//But it was Cold in that water! It was cold!//

I took the elevator Sixteen floors above the ground. I thought about my baby And thought I would jump down.

I stood there and I hollered! I stood there and I cried! If it hadn't a-been so high I might've jumped and died.

//But it was High up there! It was high!//

So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born

Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.

//Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine! code || code To fling my arms wide In some place of the sun, To whirl and to dance Till the white day is done. Then rest at cool evening Beneath a tall tree While night comes on gently, Dark like me-- That is my dream!
 * In the poem Life is Fine by Langston Hughes. The author’s use of repetition and the way he wrote his poem has a certain notable effect. Makes the read real special and opens your mind up. This poem addresses a woman. Him being in love with her, and them breaking up or not being together anymore. Torment was shown in the poem because death was a word repeated a lot. But living/livin was a word that was recurring in the poem to. The two opposites showed that he had mixed feelings because he felt like he wanted to die because of affliction. But in the same token stay alive because he wants the women he loved to envy and see him strive with out her. Every word he repeated in the poem made you feel what he was saying. The way he wrote the poem, made you hear the tone, and how he felt. He says, "Life is fine, fine as wine". That one metaphor makes you endure his tone and how Sarcastic and Confident he is. But also in the same mouthful it's a sorrowful tone. His heart could have been broken down south, because the author speaks with a language that people say is "southern old". Saying words such as liven, I'll be dogged, sweet baby and a-been. You can tell he writes in a southern form. But that’s what makes the poem interesting, bringing out where he's from into the poem. He has a different style. He writes a line then adds two dashes and continues with a line that goes with it. Almost as if it's a sentence. The author ends the poem with a one-line stanza, which had two slashes before it starts, letting the reader know how important the line. //Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine! **
 * <span class="TITLE" style="color: #cc6600; font-family: verdana,arial,'lucida sans',helvetica,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Dream Variations ||||  ||
 * by <span style="color: #336699; font-family: verdana,arial,'lucida sans',helvetica,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-decoration: none;">[|Langston Hughes] ||

To fling my arms wide In the face of the sun, Dance! Whirl! Whirl! Till the quick day is done. Rest at pale evening. . . A tall, slim tree. . . Night coming tenderly Black like me. code || ** In the poem, Dream Variation By Langston Hughes. The author use of comparison and the way he wrote his poem has a certain way of keeping me attached. Makes the read interesting and wanting more. The poem is about how he dreams that life was equal. He compares his complexion to real life things. The comparison was brought out by the way he designed his poem because of how dark he is in them time periods (1920's) hold him back. He repeats the same line in almost every stanza. Mr. Hughes doesn’t rhyme much, in none of the lines. Most of the words he repeats are sun, wide, whirl, and like me. That really made me realize the meaning, with the repetition of words. But repetition wasn't all that made this poem good; it also was imagining the tone of the author. He sounds really serious and stern. Speaking from the heart and knowing what he want. He takes what he wants seriously. It gives me that real effect, and serious tone. The poem comes alive. I get the image that he wants to be noticed. “Dance! Whirl! Whirl! A tall, slim tree. **** Night coming tenderly. Black like me." **