Response to Post Secret

It was pretty interesting reading through some of the secrets that people had posted. I dont think i would ever post any of my secrets..i mean they're called secrets for a reason; it kind of defeats the whole purpose to post them and have millions of people reading them. It's still pretty cool though. I really liked the secret..."I never had a family of my own. Today i was invited to the annual family reunion of a girl i met on past secret. I have a family; a sister."
That must have been shocking for that person. I think i would have been speechless for days.
-Alissar

Killing yourself to live feedback

This book is very complex, and i think thats a cool thing because things that are simple are boring but then again its so confusing that it gets annoying. I find myself having to go back and read paragraphs over and skim over the previous reading to understand the time. (whether its past, present, future.) I dont really feel like anything exciting happens, so i'm kinda thrown off at times. I dont think i would really recommend this book to anyone unless i know a certain someone that likes reading these types of books that follow such a storyline.
Basically, the weaknesses in this book would probably have to be the fact that its something hard to comprehend certain timeframes. I also dont think this book has enough imagery. I might be wrong but so far, thats what i feel. Many of the situations in the story dont really make the reader feel a sense of rush. My opinion might be different that others. I just like to read a book that makes me feel like i am 100% apart of it and makes me WANT to keep reading.
The book isnt horrible, there are strengths...
I like the fact that the author allows the reader to feel what he is feeling.
This book has very strong dialogue as well, which is a very important aspect for an author to keep in mind. In all, this book isnt bad, but i dont think i would talk about it to my friends. I'm not crazy about it.

My Favorite Halloween Monster/Character

I love love love halloween! It's probably my favorite time of year just because there are so many exciting things going on and me and my friends always end up doing something crazy like going to a cemetery just to freak ourselves out. Well if i could choose my favorite monster, (which isnt really considered a monster but oh well), i would choose mike myers. I love all the mike myers movies and i even bought the mask to scare kids on halloween when we give out candy. Heres a picture of Mike Myers for those who dont know him!

One of the poems i chose...THE MOON

WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL I ALWAYS DREAMT OF GOING UP TO THE MOON AND BEING THE ONLY PERSON THERE, STARING DOWN AT THE WORLD. NOW I STILL DREAM OF IT AND I WONDER WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE BEING THE ONLY SOUL ON THE MOON LOOKING DOWN AT THE EARTH. IMAGINING IT, IT WOULD BE SO QUIET AND SO PEACEFUL AND THE EARTH WOULD LOOK SO DIFFERENT. THINGS ALWAYS APPEAR TO BE SO DIFFERENT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THEM FROM AFAR BUT IN REALITY OUR EARTH IS SO CHAOTIC. I WISH OUR EARTH COULD BE MORE PEACEFUL AND SERENE LIKE IT APPEARS FROM THE MOON.
-ALISSAR

I was inspired to write this poem because i always thought of the moon as such a fascinating place and i just wanted to write about something that moved me. Sometimes we overlook the beauty of the moon because its always there and we became immune to it because we always see it, but to me, i think its an extraordinary place and that's why i chose to write about it. I actually didnt face any challenges in writing this poem just because i wasnt taking it too seriously and i was writing from the heart so it wasnt difficult for me to write. I believe when someone is pressured or writing to please others, they will face difficulties.

Pablo Neruda

POETRY BY : Pablo Neruda

And it was at that age...
Poetry arrived in search of me.
I don't know, I don't know where it came from,
from winter or a river.
I don't know how or when,
no, they were not voices,
they were not words, nor silence,
but from a street I was summoned,
from the branches of night,
abruptly from the others,
among violent fires
or returning alone,
there I was without a face
and it touched me.

I did not know what to say,
my mouth had no way with names
my eyes were blind,
and something started in my soul,
fever or forgotten wings,
and I made my own way,
deciphering that fire
and I wrote the first faint line,
faint, without substance,
pure nonsense,
pure wisdom
of someone who knows nothing,
and suddenly I saw the heavens unfastened and open,
planets,
palpitating planations,
shadow perforated,
riddled with arrows, fire and flowers,
the winding night, the universe.


And I, infinitesmal being,
drunk with the great starry void,
likeness, image of mystery,
I felt myself a pure part of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke free on the open sky.

One of the four poems i chose is called, "Love's philosophy" By Percy Bysshe Shelley

The fountains mingle with the river,And the rivers with the ocean;The winds of heaven mix forever,With a sweet emotion;Nothing in the world is single;All things by a law divineIn one another's being mingle;--Why not I with thine?
See! the mountains kiss high heaven,And the waves clasp one another;No sister flower would be forgiven,If it disdained it's brother;And the sunlight clasps the earth,And the moonbeams kiss the sea;--What are all these kissings worth,If thou kiss not me?

I really enjoyed reading this poem because it has it really nice flow and a strong meaning coorelated with it. I liked the fact that shelly incorporated nature as a focal point instead of strictly describing love alone. Instead he compared love to the way nature is structured where everything is linked or connected to something else. Then, he concludes with, "What is all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?"

My picture

This is a picture that I've always been fascinated by. I have this picture as my background picture on my laptop because every time i look at it, it puts me in a calm state. It makes me think of how heaven is because its such a beautiful scene and there's nothing like this on earth. I never really noticed that there was a person standing on the shore until the other day just because the main focal point is the ocean area. If i could be in any imaginary place, i would definitely go here.

Snow white ~part 2~

On a beautiful sunny day, Snow white is awakened by a soft kiss on her cheek from her prince. She almost forgets that she has married and now lives with this handsome prince in a glorious castle with anything she desires at her service. As she gazes out her window, she remembers her friends, the seven dwarfs. She begins to remember the wonderful memories that they had together when she was living in their home. Tears begin to fall from her eyes at the thought of how she left them all alone; they must be miserable without her presence. She decides to visit them, so she tells her prince that she will be back within a couple of hours. She quickly gets dressed and makes her way outside; she heads off skipping with a big smile on her face, and waves goodbye to her prince.
Meanwhile, the prince begins to think of what to do while his princess is gone, so he decides to go into the garden and pick some fruit off the trees. While he is doing so, an old woman walks into the garden and asks him if he could help her find her way back home for she is lost. The prince feels with this old woman and tells her that he will be happy to help her but while he begins to walk towards her, he recognizes her face and remembers that she is the witch that once tried to kill his princess, snow white. Before he is able to say a word, the witch begins to put a spell on him and hypnotizes him so that everything she commands, he must do. Evidently, the witch has not given up on getting rid of the princess so that she can be "The fairest one of all", so she tells the prince tha he must kill the princess. The witch picks a peach off one of the trees and puts poison in it and tells the prince that he must feed it to snow white. The hypnotized prince is compelled to kill the princess so he waits for her to arrive home. An hour or so goes by when the prince sees snow white walking up from the trail towards the castle. The witch sees snow white coming, hides behind a tree and waits anxiously for the prince to feed snow white the peach. The prince begins to walk towards snow white and tells her that she must be hungry from all that walking and offers her the peach.
Luckily, a bird witnesses everything that happened between the witch and the prince and wants to save poor snow white from becoming poisoned by the peach. So while the prince is giving snow white the peach, the bird fly's down from a tree and knocks the peach out of snow whites hand. The witch becomes furious and without thinking she screams out, "No!" Snow white is startled by this scream and quickly turns around and notices her behind the tree.
Snow white is so frightened that she begins running down the trail towards the home of the seven dwarfs. The witch begins chasing her but before she gets close enough, a flock of birds come flying towards the witch and surround her so that she has no where to go. The birds then hold the witch up into the air with their beaks and carry her to an old, far away, abandoned house and drop her into the chimney. The witch is enraged as she climbs out and dusts her self off. As she looks around she notices a huge mirror hung across the wall. She looks into it and an image appears before her. The image then says, "You will never be the fairest one of all."