Tenzin+Ngawang

** "Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside of you- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist- or else it is nothing..." - F. Scott Firzgerald **



**My Poetry Analysis**
I am not good at writing poem but I try my best at everything so, I think I did a pretty good job at writing poem in here. It’s kind of hard to write poem when you don’t have enough vocabulary to describe every single detail of what you really want to say and also I’m not really a good writer. I write what I speak and when you write, you’re supposed to sound completely different than what you speak and it’s really hard for me. Poetry is the same. I can’t go around and around to have deeper meaning to what I’m actually writing.  In my poems, I chose to use a lot of line breaks because it seems more poetic to do that. I also tried using rhymes but it didn’t work so well. Repetition is also one of the most things I did. In every one of my poems, I tried describing what I really felt during a specific time or like little details that would represent me in a poem. Like for example, “I was raised to treat others before self”, “Smiles hide everything”, “Food, Food, Food”, or “Philadelphia, the city I like… Out of all the countries, I came here…” All these phrases relate to me like I smile all the time, I love eating and Philadelphia was my first city perspective of United States when I immigrated in ’07.

=//__A Night__//= by Tenzin Ngawang Sweat Sweat Sweat Thats how the auditorium was. Once was all quiet Turned into a really loud place

People were everywhere "Hey there!" I called Noticing a friend from kindergarden Came to enjoy this amazing day

Checking my pocket 10 more to spend Perfect for two ticket

Me and my friend talked and talked about life, about my life.

Cool movies. Food Food Food Everything was everywhere

Like a electricity that goes through wire from the switch The night ended. The day ended. It was such a crazy night. I want to relive.

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= = =__**//The Ode to Trees//**__= //Tall and wide// //Perfect for me to hide// //from enemies, from the world// //The rough surface brushed my back// //I can hear the hissing bugs, hissing// //Nature surrounds me// //You provide oxygen// //I provide you nitrogen// //Now that I think, we're no different// //The roots can be your head// //The trunk can be your body// //The branches can be your arms// //You breathe,// //I breathe// //We're all the same.//

=//__A Riff Poem__//=

"Everyone thinks that i have it all but it's so empty living behind these castle walls." - Castle Walls, Christina Aguilera.

Smile, Smile, Smile Capture, Capture, Capture Looking bold as ever People everywhere.

Everyone thinks I have it all but its so empty living behind these walls of smiles.

Smiles hides everything One day, you're close one dies but you have pride

=//__**"I Was Raised By..." Loving People**__//=

I was raised in religious community where people believed in god where god was everything

I was raised by love. Ones who knew the term "Compassion."

I was raised to treat others before self I was raised to look up to god.

I was raised for a better future for myself, my siblings, my parents, my cousins.

I was raised in boarding school where everyone had to do chores where everyone was treated equal.

I was raised by the world filled with love.

=//__**SONNET**__//= Philadelphia, the city I like The city known for it's brotherly love Out of all the countries, I came here like Everyday is like a new beginning The sun shinning so bright, it is soothing

Poet: Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder is currently a professor in University of California. He still writes poems and publishes his poems. He has won couple awards for his writings. Gary was an environmental activist so it has a big influence on his poetry writings. Most of his poems are about nature and how beautiful the nature is etc. He is Zen Buddhist, a really spiritual person. All his poems are really calm and soothing. In the poem “Mid- August at Sourdough mountain Lookout” he seems like he was hiking and he’s describing how it really feels like when you are on the mountain. He has a lot of line breaks but he doesn’t seem to use rhyme much. He is more into getting deep in his words instead of paying attention to his rhyming schemes. In “Meeting the Mountains”, he talks about the excitement of getting to the top of the mountain. He has repetition and the poem is in perspective of a little boy. He keeps on repeating, starting with “He” during the whole poem. As you have seen in only two poems, he has written poems about a mountain climber, that’s because he loved being a mountain climber.

