Taylor+Stover

-Caressia Combs
When I first saw you I looked the other way I saw nothing Then you came up to me and I started to see something, We talked, you caught my attention and became my friend I was hoping being with you would never end but it took a turn, probably for the worse Soon I couldn't be near you, not even to converse But I couldn't get away there was something about you that made me want to stay You started taking tolls on my emotions day by day But dear you, as much as I hate you,I can't get away. media type="file" key="Poem.m4a" width="300" height="50"
 * Memory poem. **

imagry appreciation. you're there when no one else is you make me feel better when no one else can You're so bad for me I know But I can't stop, i've tried you're no good
 * ode- **

In the long run you'll only hurt me but thats okay because you're here now and you'll be there tomorrow.

You may not really care but i'd like to pretend you do just so I feel a little better on the inside

You, you raised me you cared for me you hated me and you loved me I made you angry, and i made you happy you made me cry and you made me laugh I did well you were happy I messed up and everything was over you made sure i never failed and if i did you were there to fix it
 * Sonnet **

We all make mistakes i guess you never realized that I know you've made a lot of mistakes You still make mistakes, I wish i could yell and scream at you for yours but I cant I'm sorry for mine but are you truley sorry for yours?

We touch I feel a rush We clutch it isnt much but its enough to make me wonder whats in store for us (Eminem) Its starting to look like a lot more than lust, it may be more or it may be less You want me in way thats bad, in a way we shouldn't think about But I want you too, but do i really want you like that our relationship is like two trains crashing together, dangerous.
 * Riff **

My poet is Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen has a very unique way of writing. He likes to include detail. Many if not all of his poems seem to have some sort of memory attached to them, memories of love, woman, and beauty. His poetry shows a lot of appreciation towards woman, he doesn’t hold back his feelings or emotions. In my opinion Leonard Cohen is either madly in love with one women that he can’t take his mind off of, or there’s many women that he feels the need to appreciate. His poems and songs are highly influential. “When this American woman whose thighs are bound in casual red cloth” Leonard Cohen really takes the time to analyze a women’s body he also has a poem where he talks about his appreciation for a women’s breast, a topic which is usually viewed as “perverted” he made somewhat beautiful. Throughout his traveling of Europe in his early twenties he started to appreciate the beauty around him, and began to write it down. Not only does he have poems about woman but he has them about his life, which brings me back to the first point I made that he uses a lot of memories in his poetry. I really enjoyed reading his poetry and it really showed a lot about him which I also tried to have in my poem

I was raised by a strict dad an, a cool mom By rich kids whose parents had fancy cars By two faced catty drama By stupid mistakes that can’t be forgotten I was raised to think, that being bad was cool By doing things that had people talking By thinking that being talked about was the way to be

I was raised by mean girls I was raised to runaway from my problems instead of face them I was raised by drugs over hugs I was raised as a private school girl I was raised to think that’s how I would stay

But I grew up into a girl who learned not to care.

My poetry In my poetry I focused a lot on things that were going on in my life. Each one of my poems touched base with something that effected me greatly. In my memory poem I wrote about someone that is still in my life and probably will be for a while. For my I was raised poem I related it back to my “old” life by that I mean when I was a private school girl, and emotions that related back to my parents. My favorite technique in poetry is rhyming, although we could only use it once, what I believe to be my best poem was the one with rhyming. For my riff poem I used lyrics to a song that I feel best describes the “relationship” I have with someone, a lot of my poems had to do with that, yes it makes me look a little crazy but it helped! I really enjoyed the poetry unit, I feel like I got to express myself in a way that I normally don’t, I also felt as though it brought our stream closer together because poetry is deeper than writing an essay