Poems About Power Feel Free to Quote Copy

Poems About Power Feel Free to Quote!

Copy this into your Writer’s Notebook A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. -- John Keats

My Hero by Billy Collins Just as the hare is zipping across the finish line, the tortoise has stopped once again by the roadside, this time to stick out his neck and nibble a bit of sweet grass, unlike the previous time when he was distracted by a bee humming in the heart of a wildflower.

“The Courage that My Mother Had” by Edna St. Vincent Millay Find and read today’s poem on page 393 of your textbook.

Grandfather by Ted Kooser Driving the team, he came up over the hill and looked down. In the white bowl of the snow-covered valley, his house was aflame like a wick, drawing up into itself all that he’d worked for. Once, forty years later, we passed. It was October. The cellar was filled by the flame of young trees. I got out, but he sat in the back and stared straight ahead, this old, old man, still tight on the reins of his years.

Nothing Gold Can Stay by: Robert Frost Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

CHOOSE THE single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other. -- Carl Sandburg

The Balloon Of The Mind Hands, do what you're bid: Bring the balloon of the mind That bellies and drags in the wind Into its narrow shed. William Butler Yeats

A boy had stopped his car To save a turtle in the road; I was not far Behind, and slowed, And stopped to watch as he began To shoo it off into the undergrowth— An Interruption by Robert Foote This wild reminder of an ancient past, Lumbering to some Late Triassic bog, Till it was just a rustle in the grass, Till it was gone. I hope I told him with a look As I passed by, How I was glad he'd stopped me there, And what I felt for both Of them, something I took To be a kind of love, And of a troubled thought I had, for man, Of how we ought To let life go on where And when it can. In your Writer’s Notebook, summarize this poem using four vocab words from our current vocab unit.

“ 21 Guns” by Green Day (excerpt) One, 21 guns Lay down your arms, give up the fight One, 21 guns Throw up your arms into the sky, you and I Did you try to live on your own When you burned down the house and home? Did you stand too close to the fire Like a liar looking forgiveness from a stone? http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=qc. OK_YATp 6 U

“Restless Heart” by Matt Hires Pretty girls come from the ugliest places You come from the worst of them all Heartbreakers like you are hard to erase You lift me up just so I fall Hey you got a restless heart Beat it out, out on your sleeve And I won't let this fire start You say love is all that you need Well you're not gonna get it from me 1. How do people generally acquire and maintain power? 2. What happens when there is a change in power? 3. What makes a person or group powerful at any given place or time? 4. How can power be used to accomplish good? 5. What constitutes an abuse of power and how do

1. How do people generally acquire and maintain power? 2. What happens You held me down, but I got up (HEY!) when there is a Already brushing off the dust change in power? You hear my voice, you hear that sound 3. What makes a Like thunder gonna shake the ground person or group You held me down, but I got up (HEY!) powerful at any given place or Get ready ’cause I’ve had enough time? I see it all, I see it now 4. How can power be used to I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing through the accomplish fire good? ‘Cause I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me roar 5. What constitutes an abuse of power Louder, louder than a lion ‘Cause I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me roar and how do people respond to such abuses? “Roar” by Katy Perry COMPARE AND CONTRAST: SIMILARITIES TO OUR READING?

“Fix You” by Coldplay And the tears come streaming down your face When you lose something you can't replace When you love someone but it goes to waste Could it be worse? Using Power for Good Lights will guide you home And ignite your bones And I will try to fix you http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=trda 5 n. HIZLo “The Cub” “Thank You Ma’am” The Wave The Holicong Elite Eight