Welcome to the Kenwood English IV Poetry Blog!

Students from Kenwood's Honors English IV classes have written poems inspired by the poems, poets and poetic forms that they've studied during this term's poetry unit. Some students wrote Ballads and Sonnets while others responded to the work of poets like e.e. cummings, Sylvia Plath and Rainer Marie Rilke. Many poems are profound, heartfelt and deeply insightful. Others are fun and lighthearted. But, all of the poems illustrate the students understanding and appreciation of the genre of poetry. We invite you to read this work and offer your comments. Thank you.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

The End

Everything I have seen during my narcissistic
Days there lives, the pretentious one perishing
In his own righteousness and then there is the
Malicious one eternalizing his menacing.

For even calamity may make a wise man
Act crazy and love can destroy the heart.
A name surpasses life itself and fatality
Than the day of one’s childbearing.

Initially there is life. We live, we play, we
Work, we regret, we forget. In the beginning
There is absence of knowledge, the end is
A world of memories, a pool of hope.

Better is the conclusion afterward of a matter
Than its beginning. The end is death.

Inspired by the Elegy form
By Amanda H. 1ST PERIOD
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