The meaning of Sunglight by Paulina Ergas

S parkling

U V rays

N ectar

L ambent

I lluminating

G olden

H ot

T orrid

Growing up, everyone is always exposed to acrostic poems. I have used them to make cards, or even speeches. Though, I have never considered an acrostic poem, to actually be a creative poem. I decided to challenge my childhood work and put thought into writing an acrostic poem. I wrote about the sunlight, and essentially took everyones first thoughts on the sun and turned them into imagery words. I used two senses,: seeing and feeling. I did find it difficult to write this poem, because it is hard to find words that describe the subject for every letter.

The Man in the Moon by Paulina Ergas

There once was a man in the moon,

Who could barely even sing a tune.

Though out from his throat,

He belted a note,

And the stars didn’t return until June.

Most of the poems that I had written previous to this one were very lovely, but more serious. I wanted something humorous and light and remembered learning how to write limericks from previous school years. A limerick is a poem where the first, second, and last lines rhyme, and the third and fourth rhyme. There is the metrical foot consisting of two unaccented or short syllables followed by one stressed or long syllable: da-da-dum; the first two lines are three anapests, the second two are two anapests, and the last line is three. Limericks are usually funny as well. I wrote about the man in the moon trying to sing, but scaring all the stars away because he was so bad. I always found poems about people attempting to sing and are bad, funny, because I don't exactly have the nicest voice in the world. This poem may be relate able to a lot of people!

In the Peace of the Night by Paulina Ergas

Lucid white moonlight

Stirs whispers across world

Coyotes howl

Here is a haiku that I wrote. A haiku has 5-7-5 syllables in each line. I wrote about the calm and quite of the night. When the night comes to mind, the first think I always think about is the silent night, where the wolves howl in the moon. However, I tried to spin if off, and make it more relate able to where we are now (Vancouver) and replaced wolves with coyotes. I used alliteration in the second line, with the letter 'S' in the first three words. Using this abled the readers to appeal to the hearing sense, and imagine the whispers spreading through the night. I really enjoyed writing this haiku.

As the Day Turns In by Paulina Ergas

Tinged with speckled pink

Golden orb sinks beneath ground

As the day turns in

Stars plaster the charcoal sky

Shadows dance in the moonlight

So I decided that a nice way to start and end my calendar would be to have poems that contrast the two subjects of my theme, day and night. This poem is called a Tanka, and it is the first one of this type that I have written. The syllables in each line are 5-7-5-7-7. I started the poem out by describing the sun setting, with a pink sky, and then converted it into a dark grey sky with shadows and stars. I wanted the poem to flow nicely so I didn't change the mood of day and night, they are both calm, just the scene and images alter. I really enjoyed writing the Tanka, just like i enjoy writing Haikus. They are two of my favorite poems.

THEME

DAY AND NIGHT

Night and Day by Lisa Piper

Diamonds cover

The velvet sky
Twinkling just enough
To show off their elegance
Gracefully dancing
Around the most
Beautiful pearl
So bright
She lights the heavens
And all the earth
She stands above
Dark segments of cotton
Intermittently obscure
Her sparkling luster
As the wind silently
Pushes them
Across the midnight sky
Soon the pearl begins
Gently falling
Toward the horizon
As a golden ring
Appears on the opposite
End of the world

The poem, Day and Night by Lisa Piper is a free verse poem as it has no proper rhyme scheme. It is about the exchange of the moon and stars to the sun, or the changing from night to day. I really enjoyed some of the images created in my head from this poem. For instance, the 'Diamonds covering the velvet sky", "the beautiful pearl", or the "golden ring". "Diamonds cover the velvet sky twinkling just enough to show off their elegance gracefully dancing," was the perfect use of a personification to create beautiful imagery. The whole poem seems like a personification with the line, "Soon the pearl begins gently falling," as well.

The Sun Rising, John Donne

BUSY old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains, call on us ?
Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run ?
Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide
Late school-boys and sour prentices,
Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride,
Call country ants to harvest offices ;
Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Thy beams so reverend, and strong
Why shouldst thou think ?
I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink,
But that I would not lose her sight so long.
If her eyes have not blinded thine,
Look, and to-morrow late tell me,
Whether both th' Indias of spice and mine
Be where thou left'st them, or lie here with me.
Ask for those kings whom thou saw'st yesterday,
And thou shalt hear, "All here in one bed lay."

She's all states, and all princes I ;
Nothing else is ;
Princes do but play us ; compared to this,
All honour's mimic, all wealth alchemy.
Thou, Sun, art half as happy as we,
In that the world's contracted thus ;
Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, that's done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere ;
This bed thy center is, these walls thy sphere.

The Sun Rising, a poem by John Donne, is an aubade poem which is a a song or poem about lovers separating at dawn. The speaker and his lover are in bed together when the sunlight comes through the windows. The speaker tells the sun to leave them alone. The Speaker says that their love together is complete, and that the sun is interrupting and being annoying. He then tells the sun that his lover is worth more than anything the sun can ever find outside their bedroom. In the end, he says the sun is old and so it should rest because its duty is to warm the world and since they are the world has been completed. The speaker continues and then cleverly adds how it has centered itself upon the room of his love and so they are the sun, the center of the universe. Some poetic devices used are apostrophes. The sun is being characterized as a “busy old fool” and “saucy pedantic wretch”. Now, since an aubade is about lovers separating at dawn, i think that the sign is a symbol of an intruder, and is what is separating them at dawn.