Dréquan+Taylor

D.Taylor

"Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art." - Thomas Hardy


 * ODE:**

** Wing Chun **

The style that I see as the best, Well at least for me, The style I have wanted to learn for a while, The technique, that was created by a women, Is now famous through Bruce Lee mainly. I’ve been interested in this style, Before I ever learned about the greats, The greats who used it, It captured my interest, From its philosophy and history. The concept to protect the “center line” Keep your center of balance, The stance is like bamboo, Firm but flexible. Bases on Close Range, Striking and Grappling Takes about 15-20 years to master, But im to the challenge.


 * SONNET:**


 * "Raised By":**

I was raised by like 20 people Some short older women Church going Old school clothes wearing "Are you hungry" type of women

Some older men some big & some small all stocky All dressed up suit and tie wearing "Man take care of your mom" type of men.

Some stay at home brewski drinking cigarette smoking yelling at the tv house dress wearing "Hey"..." Get me some chicken from Danny Wok" kind of people

Some loud laughing Always singing tight with money Sweat pant and sweat jacket wearing Hardworking "I'd always rather be in my own house" kind of people


 * POEM OF CHOICE:**

YOUR SAY DOES NOT DERIVE FROM WHAT YOU SAY By: Nicholas Gordon

Your say does not derive from what you say. A child hears the one most often here, And loves the one whose love's most often near. You must have known that when you went away. The power lies with those who choose to stay, For parents rule by love far more than fear, And children follow those they hold most dear. It takes far more than will to have your way. And now you want to tell me what to do, Not having earned the right through years of love But claiming the authority of seed; While I will give precisely what is due, Returning love to those who loving prove; Serving those who long have served my need.

When I write a poem it’s usually about my feelings or what I see in everyday life. Sometimes my poems rhyme, but most of the time that’s not the ultimate goal. I write various types of poems such as: sonnets, haiku, Rhymes, Lyric poetry, Name poem, Limerick, Couplets, Imagery poems…etc. I write with meaning and feeling, sometimes I just let my mind free and flow with my pen.

** THREE POEMS BY AUTHOR: **

** The Souls Expression ** BY ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

With stammering lips and insufficient sound (10) A I strive and struggle to deliver right (10) B  That music of my nature, day and night (10) B  With dream and thought and feeling interwound, (10) A  And inly answering all the senses round (10) A  With octaves of a mystic depth and height (10) B  Which step out grandly to the infinite (10) C  From the dark edges of the sensual ground. (10) A This song of soul I struggle to outbear (10) C  Though portals of the sense, sublime and whole, (10) D  And utter all myself into the air: (10) C  But if I did it,-- as the thunder-roll (10) D  Breaks its own cloud, my flesh would perish there, (10) C  Before that dread apocalypse of soul. (10) D

This poem is the author expressing her feelings on her current relationship. Not necessarily mentioning who the person is or describing much about them at all. She mentions “With dream and thought and feeling interwound” She put into words her view of things. She is saying that she wants the reader to see how she has mixed emotions and how they are all cemented into one now. She responds to her feelings internally instead of aloud as everyone else. She lives her life and expresses her feelings to herself and strives to handle them all on her own. This poem is a sonnet, because it has iambic pentameters in each sentence. The last few lines have a little bit of a different meaning. It is still the author talking to the reader, but it reveals her feelings as dull or painful as earlier she seemed gloomy I guess.

Love BY ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

We cannot live, except thus mutually (10) (A) We alternate, aware or unaware, (10) (B) The reflex act of life: and when we bear (10) (B) Our virtue onward most impulsively, (10) (A) Most full of invocation, and to be (10) (A) Most instantly compellant, certes, there (10) (B) We live most life, whoever breathes most air (10) (B) And counts his dying years by sun and sea. (10) (A) But when a soul, by choice and conscience, doth (10) (C) Throw out her full force on another soul, (10) (D) The conscience and the concentration both (10) (C) Make mere life, Love. For Life in perfect whole (10) (D) And aim consummated, is Love in sooth, (10) (C) As nature’s magnet-heat rounds pole with pole. (10) (D)

In this poem “Love” The author creates a sonnet therefore each line has Ten syllables in each line. It has a fluent rhyme scene as I listed above. The words We and Must are used a lot in the poem. No specific punctuation but there a few commas in the whole thing and only two periods. The beginning of each line is capitalized, and Love and Life are capitalized a few times later in the poem. When the reader reads this poem they can see that the author is writing about her and a person she loves. It looks as if maybe the person she loves may be old or is dying right before her eyes. The enjambments in this poem cause the reader to pause between lines; it engages the reader and it requires the reader to think more on the line that they just read. The author does this to hook the reader and get them to grasp the full understanding of her poem.

** When our two souls...(Sonnet 22) ** BY ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

When our two souls stand up erect and strong, (10) (A) Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher, (10) (B) Until the lengthening wings break into fire(10) (B) At either curved point,---what bitter wrong (10) (A) Can the earth do to us, that we should not long (10) (A) Be here contented? Think! In mounting higher, (10) (B) The angels would press on us and aspire (10) (B) To drop some golden orb of perfect song (10) (A) Into our deep, dear silence. Let us stay (10) (C) Rather on earth, Beloved,---where the unfit (10) (D) Contrarious moods of men recoil away (10) (C) And isolate pure spirits, and permit (10) (D) A place to stand and love in for a day, (10) (C) With darkness and the death-hour rounding it. (10) (D)

In “When our two souls…” the author is talking about her and her “soul mate”. It’s about two being in love, and how their feelings for each other are immensely strong. There is a rhyme scheme that I labeled through out this poem. This poem is also a sonnet because all of the lines have 10 syllables or iambic pentameters. There is no repetition that is intentional. There is a couple of --- throughout the poem to conceivably get the reader to wonder why they are there, or perhaps to get the reader to pause the sentence instead of just reading the sentence. It slows the reader down from just flowing through the sentence. A sentence spaced out between lines has a different meaning or consists of a different sound.