Mountain Peak White (OC-121)

Mountain peak white



Draw everything you truly want
Whatever the others say
This paper is yours
And you are the owner of the pencil,
It is in your hand,
You decide what to draw


When the others say:
You don't have an individuality;
Remember
You're just a little behind,
When the others have
Only painted on color on the paper,
You will fill the blank paper with
The colorful paints
And harmonize them on a
Simple blank sheet of paper,
That had nothing special


The world will ask you to
paint a white bubble
On a white paper with a white water color
Might sound like mountain
That is too steep,
You are afraid to put your first step,
And your brain can't function,
A white image is struck in your mind
Would you try?
(It might be the background of
The drawing that you're wishing for)

You might regret the aimless offer,
That the world gave you,
And the paint you waisted
But weren't you curious about
What and how it would be
And how you might have changed after?
Would you call this
That it was a loss?

There's a rule in life:
You always learn something
(And this is how you start your drawing)
After you do anything
It can be anything
Like you dropped a glass on the floor
And a piece cut your leg,
You learned that you should be
More careful when you carry a glass


Again, would you call this
That it was a loss?



Go back to color collective (middle mindz)

Where I'm From

I am from 4B pencil,
from the white canvas and colorful fabrics
I am from my Grandfather's cozy villa,
olive green leaves, white thin fur stuck on my blanket,
roughness of my grandmothers' palm through my chick,
my moms' warm voice calling my name

I am from the huge willow tree that attaches the cold lake which tickled my face,
rose Sharon, long wooden sticks that my brother used it as his secret sword,
the tall pine tree, deep red opium-puppy,
a purple olives that was always eaten by the bugs

I am from Sunday afternoon sleep,
doing laundry with the socks always inside out,
from Woojin and Sook and Keedong,
I am from the idea of forget about what bad happened and carry on,
and do what you truly want to do

From eat the vegetables evenly or else you will not see the prince,
don't lie other wise a tiger might fetch you
and take you to a deep, dark cave in the woods alone

I am from respect your parents and the adults,
you have a lot to learn from them

I am from the foggy house in Buenos Aires,
Jaewoo Kwak who was the first General in Korea
frozen grapes and boiling black tea

From my moms' old story about how she got a scar on her wrist
when she was trying to catch a frog,
the tears of my brother because the moon kept following him in the sky,
the power ranger play with my brother and I in a pool defeating
a tube from our dad

I am from the small ice-cream shop next to my school,
the the key board of my phone, texting with my friends
a quiet playground next to my house,
a bookstore filled with a sound of turning the page,
and the smell of my moms' old car.

I am from the andromeda, my heart is from the moon

I am from 2010, the most happiest time in my life that will never pass in my heart
I am from 2011, the mot depressing time in my life that I wished it will soon pass by


http://middlemindz.blogspot.com/#!/2012/05/where-im-from.html

Poetry Notebook

Life Is Fine

by Langston Hughes

Description: We can know that the speaker was trying to commit suicide. Why would the speaker commit suicide? Maybe because the speaker thought that 'life' is too much hard to handle, the speaker tries to give-up. And there are a lot of people who commits suicide.
 
Synopsis:The first four stanzas are saying that the speaker is committing suicide. In the part "I came up once and hollered! I came up twice and cried!", he was trying to drown himself in the water but he couldn't so he goes to a building and tries again. But at the last stanza we can know that the speaker is still alive and says that life is fine.  I heard from someone that when you are sick and tired of the world and you a preparing to commit suicide, you finally learn what life really is.

The Road Not Taken

 by Robert Frost

Description: The poem "The Road Not Taken" is about the way, or a choice in life.The two ways symbolizes any major choice a person may make in their lives. It also leaves it up to the reader as to whether or not taking the road less traveled is the better choice, since "and that has made all the difference" doesn't suggest whether it was positive or negative difference.

Synopsis:  The author is in a wood and in a place where he has to choose a road to go. He chose the one which is less-traveled road. And that someday he will go to the other road too. But I think that he won't be able to go the the other road because I think that life is to short to reach the end of one road and then start a whole new road.

There Is Another Sky

by Emily Dickinson

Description: Emily Dickinson wrote this poem to his brother and we can realize that she expressed her message writing about nature. She tries to lead the reader in a positive and hopeful way (She indirectly makes a statement that there is a light, and warmth). So the title "There Is Another Sky" means that there are colorful, hopeful, and positive sky in the world so don't be depressed, if you keep living, someday you will see the other sky. Also the other sky can also be a person's personality that there is another side of them even though if it's a bad side.

Synopsis: I imagined that I was following Emily Dickinson in a forest. At first you don't like the bugs and the scratches that the branches make, but as you get more deep into the forest you look around and see what is around you not what is next to you, then you will see the other side of the sky, world,and people and think that the world has a beautiful part but it's just hard to find it.

Dream Deferred

 by Langston Hughes

Description: Langston Hughes questions us what will happen if dreams defers. But I think that all the bad things that he listed in his poem won't actually happen. Dreams are not over, it is just deferred. Some people who are dying that they can't earn their dreams and the people who are around them are not supporting, it doesn't mean that your dream will explode or smell like rotten meat. So I think Langston Hughes gave us the way to do what we have to do for our dreams and to mot give up our dreams just because it is deferred. Dreams won't be dried or sore.

Synopsis: There are no particular synopsis in this poem, I think the order of this poem is the impact of what bad, might happen if your dreams are deferred.

In This Short Life

 by Emily Dickinson

Description: It is saying about how short our life is.  And this poem makes us think that we should do something special and not waisting the life "that only lasts an hour", life does not actually last one hour, but it goes really fast that you don't realize how much far you came till the end, so I think this is why she wrote that life lasts an hour.  To add on, the part "how much--how little -- is within our power" might be about our

Analysis: This poem makes me kind of afraid and worry about what I have to do while I'm living a life, and how to spend my time that I won't regret. All people are afraid of dying and I'm afraid that at the moment that I'm dying I don't want to think: "What did I do until now? Did I live a 'good' life?" Also, I think that Emily Dickinson wrote this poem when she was worried what to do with life "that only last an hour"

Dream Variations

 by Langston Hughes

Description: In the first stanza of this poem-- Dream Variation--wrote about what Langston Hughes or people like now a days who are busy and people who are tired of societys' dream. Not a dream that you dream while you are in  a sleep. A dream that you really wish for. This is a digression but my dream is to go back to 2010, because I belive that that was the most happiest time in my memory. Anyway, Langston HUghes continues about that day that he dreams of but at the last line it is written:Night coming tenderly Black like me.  I think that this part means that his dream is over and it will disapear in the dark. Or: It is just a dream, that won't happen.

Analysis: The flow of this poem is a timeline of a day. Morning to Night. Moring is a symbol of bright,positive,hopeful,cheerful and Night is dark, spooky and hopeless (maybe this is why we dream at might, to get rid the hopeless). In the middle of the evening time he said:While night comes on gently,Dark like me-That is my dream! I think that he wrote himself as dark twice, in the poem and I think it is because most of the people has a depression somewhere deep in their heart.

A Dream of Trees

 by Mary Oliver

Description: This poem makes you draw an image in your mind and feel the poem. In my opinion I don't think that you interpret a poem, you feel the poem and think what it means. So Itried to think about the poem and I realized that most od the poems about dream that I chose ends hopless. The poetries are human too, I guess they want to dream to, but we are living in the world that disturbs you from earning things.And maybe dreams are just dreams, it doesn;t come to reality.

Analysis: It starts with a dreamlike mood. And the speaker seems to dream a place where it's far away from the society and have some margin.But at the end the poem "A Dreams of Trees" ends with the sentence:Who ever made music of a mild day? I tried to figure it out, what it means and I'm not sure but I  think it is like this: Why did someone ever make a music of a mild day which really makes me feel that I'm having a mild day. And I think the reader is rejecting the reality by accusing the person who made the mild day music.

i shall imagine life

by E. E. Cummings

Description: This poem is not for people who are beautiful as roses it is for people who are weed. It tells us that a weed can be beautiful than a rose and the rose will just smile. This poem is about life and it depends on how the rose smiled but at the end it all means that you can do it and one day the people will smile at you (because you made it), which in the poem it is written that the rose will smile at you.

Analysis: The meaning of the last stanza would mean that there are those that will settle for less than the best they can do and convince themselves that a weed is a beautiful as a rose, and the rose will smile at them.

An Innocent Death

A men should take his atonement when he went against the law and especially if he took someone’s innocent life.  And this is not an exception to Zimmerman-who killed Trayvon Martin (17-years-old, African American). Life is an only one chance and Zimmerman just took that only one chance from a young boy who was in an age to dream about his future.  When Martin was coming back from the supermarket with a skiddle and an ice tea on his hands-which are totally not overawe, Zimmerman called the police, saying that a black man looks “suspicious”; the police told Zimmerman to stay still and do nothing, and they will mobilize, but Zimmerman shot Martin.

The effect of “prejudice” in justice is major. People might take a wrong side-which there was a misunderstanding and after a misunderstanding, most will be highly influenced by his stereotype. Human are a weak creature, they get agitated.  And when they start to feel unrest, there won’t be a fair trial. The trial might incline to one side-which might be beneficial or disadvantage.

The individuals have a responsibility to protect the innocent by: being educated about how one’s life is precious and you never take one’s life without justification and also make the steps of gun ownership more complicated. It is hard to illegalize gun ownership because many Americans see gun ownership as much of a civil right as freedom of speech, religion and freedom of the press. They should intense the education of one’s life to the teenagers also the adults.

Gender can stereotypes influence people’s behavior by the outlook. Most of the people have a stereotype that men are strong and women are weak and men have to protect them. Usually men are the criminals when it causes force. Also when a man wears a criminal looking clothes, people will think that they are an actual criminal and starts to flatter-trying to look good so they won’t be harmed. On the other hand some people might call the police or move their body to a safe place. But when a woman wears her clothes like a criminal, people might think that she’s a prostitute. And treat her low-which means not treating like a human. They will think that they can beat her because she’s a woman.

Although Zimmerman is saying that he was self-defending, I think he knows that he is wrong. He should feel guilty for what he has done and people should learn that one’s life is something they will never get again and they must respect the others. Martin’s death is not a vain anymore to me. I deeply learned that you should never ever take one’s life, and people must have realized that they should never do what Zimmerman did. So Martin saved at least one life – which is very precious.

W.W vocabulary6 - TKMB chap 9

After Miss Maudie's house burned down, Jem told me that maybe some people might have conspired to burn her house. I asked him why and he said,
"Scout, Miss Maudie doesn't really gossips or even barely talks with the grown-ups."
"But not gossiping is a good thing. Isn't it?" I asked Jem again.
"I don't know that neither, it's the grown-ups thing to judge people" He answered.
I started to believe Jem's words. Miss Maudie was always meticulous with her place (especially the earth, according to what she said). A fire can't start from nowhere. This should be a calamity to her...

"Jem!I have a new idea of what we can do in our play! I'll be Miss Maudie and you be the person who started the fire." I exclaimed.
"No, you two won't never do that!" Atticus bowled.
"No, but.." I said, with my voice in a very small tone, noone can hear it. We always have a dissesion
about the play with Atticus. Atticus warned us again and went to his room. Jem's eyes followed Atticus and checked if Atticus closed his door.
"We're still gonna do the play okay Scout?" said Jem quietly.
Although we know that the day when Atticus realizes it is imminent we were already discussing about how our play will end. both of us wanted a happy ending so the criminal will get apprehended and he will also pay Miss MAudie the money back to recover her house and her garden again. We also decided that he has to work 200hours of service, picking up trashes as Miss Maudie will wish to do.
And we found a perfect twig to use it as a shackle to arrest Jem at the end of the play.
"But who's Dill gonna be?" I questioned.
"Maybe he could be the other man, I guess" he said. "Or he could be Boo Radley watching the people burning the house."
"But that will be really boring to Dill" I said
"Who cares. He will find his own play" Jem said.
I should've realize that this play was getting to realistic. And also Miss Maudie looking at us.

Dear May

Dear May,

May, times elapsed  since you've left us. We had a calamity after you were gone, but we still love you. I know you won't get this letter but I believe that you are always beside me. And I know you will read this letter.

Lily, that little girl is already taller than me. She is learning how to love with Zach and the bees. Zach became a lawyer as his dreams and he's preparing a wedding ring to Lily (and we are conspiring also. I think their marriage is imminent) . He's very meticulous to Lily right now. Oh! I forgot to tell you about Zach after he got apprehended. Do you remember the white lawyer whom Zach used to deliver honey?He helped us to release Zach and the next day you left us, we saw Zach coming out from a car with a shackle around his arm, but he was still smiling at us as of nothing had happened. The white lawyer just tolled me that Zach was arraigned for spending time with Lily at apublic place.When he came inside, we didn't interrogate him what has happened - we just tried to assimilate him like how you would do.

Remember when Neil and June had dissension about their marriage? I have a clear image of your face when they were arguing - I won't say it because I know you you'll feel embarrassing. They said that they had an anarchy in that time but I think that it's an excuse. Anyway, they are married and they have three cute daughters which they are collecting honey with Lily right now. They kind of lionize Lily and I don't know why. And also the last girl, really reminds me of you. Why? Because she also sometimes has a bizarre behaviour.

Rosaleen is still a single because she thinks you're a single too, so in her words she's saying that she can't leave you alone - but I say that it's 'self-justisfication'. Even though she's not married, she's always happy and smiling so you don't have to worry about her.

Now, I have to go teach June's daughters, sweltering outside to teach them how to clean the bee house. I'll soon write another letter for you.

Bye Honey.

Love From, August

The Problem We All Live With - Norman Rockwell

The Problem We All Live With

The picture 'The Problem We All Live With " which was a painting of a very famous painter in the 1960s named Norman Rockwell, shows the major problem very simple but abound meanings at U.S. back then

When you look at the picture, first of all you will see a little black girl (Rudy Bridges) wearing a pure white dress which makes her skin look more darker, holding her school materials on her hand and walking with four mans encompassed around her to protect her from the white people such as K.K.K (if you see the top left corner, you will see a scribble written K.K.K and also written 'NIGGER' on the wall.) because they threw stuffs like tomato which is actually drew on the painting, to give her fervertion. And to add on, her body looks very stiffened but not only her, the guardians too. Norman Rockwell hasn't draw the face of the guardians but I predict that they were sure not smiling at all.

When people move their eyes on the picture, most of the people might think "Oh, it's a painting about racism" and just pass by, but Norman Rockwell didn't draw this painting to make people just think and pass by, I think he wanted every one to remember the day when black people felt a deep pain on their heart and mind. But on the other hand, few people would think how Rudy Bridges have felt and also how they woulf have falt. In my opinion I'm not brave enough to walk through the hates just to go to school.

Even though Norman Rockwell had used few bright color at his drawing, don't know reason but it has a dark feeling maybe because of the mood. And also the proportion, she seems to walk fast to arive at school fast so she won't hear hurtful word from white people. Because, between the guardians at the back and Rudy, there's a gap and Rudy is nearly catching up the two guardians at her front. I hope there will never be a child like Rudy, hurted their innocent heart just because of 'Different skin color' anymore in the future