Loren+Jenkins


 * // " Poetry is art that is created with emotions, strong vocabulary, and a piece of you."- Loren Jenkins //**



For this poetry unit I want to explore more out side of the box. I wonder how can tell people a story about life with out telling them. I want to make a whole poem out off personification giving imagery to an object with out telling you what the object it. I want to use breaks between lines and periods. I want people to be able to look at my work and know how it should be read the first time they see it. I want people my age and older to be able to relate to at least one line that is said. I want to reach into my soul and take out something that no one ever knew about me, and write in a poem. I just want to explore. Explore the world on a birds view, a knife view, and anything that can be the most extreme. I want to play around with the vocabulary. I want to use words that sound so unique, but happens to really mean the littlest thing like cute. I want to be able to give imagery of a scene that is basic, but when you read it you can view different scenes.

Memory Poem: The new smell of a new town released a new friendship between a human being and a pet.

They played all day in sun rise to sunset, they walked up the road side by side which they have never left each other side.

He was only a puppy that was three of age. He was as tall as me standing on four legs. If his skin was compared to me he would be a shade lighter then mines.

The wanging tail running towards me while I was on the swing, made it  worth while playing with my new best friend.

On the porch at night we'll rest real tight, looking up at the fire flies flying around at night. When it was time to sleep, he would go through the woods to his dog house to rest.

For the next morning due to us being together morning through night.

Ode:

Your filming life has end to soon. You was just given to me two years ago. I wish you was working so you could capture all the new things I see. When we where together we created harmony, Through photos of course.

One Snap. Two Views. One for me and multiple for you. We where able to share our different views, and if I didn't like yours you would let me take yours over. Through your lens you thought I was different, weird, and something else then normal.In my eyes I was the realist person alive.

I lived through you and saw what you seen. Every picture was different. Even if the pose was the same. One second over time something has to always change. I never looked the same any of the frames. But I looked the same to you in your own frame.

You never judged based on what I wore, you just complemented on my taste of style. Never ending tips for make-up. Showing me different angles I could take pictures in.

SInce, your injury my frames has never been the same. You was able to make my captures so clear to view. Now I have to put you back in the purple case until I get the funds to fix you. A few more lens would be added to you which equals more frames with you. Audio to poem:media type="file" key="Camera peom.m4a" width="300" height="50"

Raff Poem: Stating Lines In PURPLE are by: Nicki Minaj

I'm a young black woman of my own. I believe that I will become something big, worth more then ancient clock, and seen past my beauty. I can rule the world if the government would give it to me. If I was powerful enough I would just take it from them.

This society has with drawn from being true to anyone. Some many secrets, lies, and unreaveled things. I don't want to live in a place like this. I want to be where i'm not judge on my color, age, sex, or the area I life in. You think your better them me because your not the same as me?

Wrong.

I life for more then you would ever like. I wasn't created to seat down, and watch you become something I wish I could be. I'v e only one chance one bullet in the gun This is my life and I only got one yea The safeties off and I put it on stun

See me I gotta a pocket full of joysome. I got a soul full of warmth that one day me this young black woman would make those who cry smile make those who are stressed feel relieved. Make those who feel overwhelmed finally feel achieved.

I want to be the government of desires, hope, and change.

I was raised by poem: I was raised by... A family that was given a new sweet dream. A flower with blooming rose petals, Awaiting a longer steam to grow. In order for her to grow healthy and strong she needed

Sunlight

Air

Water

Soil..

Everything that a sprout needed to grow. The warmth from the sun gave the petals joy. The breeze from the air provide smooth comfort sleep. The fresh prickle of water when the flower glupped it down through thirst. The softness from the soil to control the steam growth before if became to late. This is how I was raised, by love! Sonnet: I am the solider alone in the night I am the strong one who fights your battles I am the smart one who helps you though pain I am the struggle that made you better I am the strength that gave you guidance I am the self that make who I am me.

All poems are oringainted by: Loren Jenkins
** // I believe that poetry is a unique individual that can be used by anyone who has creativity. That’s why I have chosen Nikki Giovanni to be my poet to focus on because she knows how to use many techniques to form his poetry. A lot of her poems focus on love, friendships, old times, and the struggles she had to go through. I really like the topics she talks about because they show that she knows how to connect to people’s feelings and hearts. I know that I could connect a lot to her poems because they talk about subjects even teens can relate too. // ** ** //  As far as her writing I can say that it is a little different. There are times when some of her poem stanza’s would be shorter then the rest or longer. Sometimes she doesn’t even use stanzas but just write a poem using breaks, spaces, and commas. I like the way she uses her line structure, and also how she makes her worlds together easily. It’s fun when you read it because you can get into and start to feel the beat, or the rhythm that she creates. I love her artistic ways the way they are. // ** ** //  Something that is different that I don’ t think people found in Nikki Giovanni poems are that most of them are from experience. Some poets just put 2 and 2 together to create a nice poem. It takes experience of life to right such heartfelt art. There are poets who do the same as Nikki do not get me wrong. I just find her more excited because she is a black-woman who is strong. She also knows who to entertain any age group. She has made poems based on the songs that my generation of teenagers listen to and dance to. To be the age that she is that means she pays a lot of attention to those who look to her for inspiration. // ** ** //  In this poem:  // ** **// All I Gotta Do  //** ** // all i gotta do   // ** ** // is sit and wait   // ** ** // sit and wait   // ** ** // and it's gonna find   // ** ** // me   // ** ** // all i gotta do   // ** ** // is sit and wait   // ** ** // if i can learn how  // ** ** //  what i need to do  is sit and wait  cause i'm a woman  sit and wait  what i gotta do  is sit and wait  cause i'm a woman  it'll find me  // ** ** //  you get yours  and i'll get mine  if i learn  to sit and wait  you got yours  i want mine  and i'm gonna get it  cause i gotta get it  cause i need to get it  if i learn how  // ** ** //  thought about calling  for it on the phone  asked for a delivery  but they didn't have it  thought about going  to the store to get it  walked to the corner  but they didn't have it  // ** ** //  called your name  in my sleep  sitting and waiting  thought you would awake me  called your name  lying in my bed  but you didn't have it  offered to go get it  but you didn't have it  so i'm sitting  // ** ** //  all i know  is sitting and waiting  waiting and sitting  cause i'm a woman  all i know  is sitting and waiting  cause i gotta wait  wait for it to find  me  // ** **// Written by Nikki Giovanni //**
 * // I really love this poem because I can relate to it as being a teenager. A lot of teenage girls sometimes have to question themselves who they really are. It’s a way to explore who we want to be before it becomes to late for us to change. That’s why I love Nikki Giovanni because she knows how to connect through emotions, love, heart, and life. //**