Jack is in Command Now!

Ralph overpowered,

Authority now belonging

To the one, who hides

In the mask of savageness,

With shocking supremacy.

You can’t have it all…

But you can have the refreshing balmy breeze,

Like swimming in a hot summer day.

You can have the little brother

Who you always criticize,

But reminds you of yourself when you were his age.

You can have that one out-of-place song

In your playlist that describes who you are,

And how you feel.

You can break up for the third time,

And just say, “Yeah it was expected…”

And life moves on.

You can have one of those bad days

And feel as if the world is going to end,

But keep a smile on your face

Because friends are always there for you.

You can have that stupid trip and fall,

Where you rupture a ligament,

But not cry

because there are worst things in life.

You can have the barking of the dogs at the pet store,

Waiting impatiently to meet their new owner,

But as I approach the clear glass

They ignore me,

As if they already knew that it will never be me.

You can have the nostalgic moments in life

Where you wished the past was the present,

Looking back at the good old days,

Similar to a man in his elder ages.

You can have the moment

When you are just jumping and dancing in the rain,

Not caring if you’re going to catch a cold.

You can have those friends,

who are always ready and prepared to help,

Like a soldier prepared for battle.

You can have teachers claiming

You can’t finish a project in a day,

But what comes to mind

Are these two simple words,

“Challenge Accepted…”

A Smile a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

Description: These poems will show you the true meaning of happiness and joy. Of the great moments in life, after you have overcome turbulent times, where you just feel a great warmth of happiness, and feel as life can’t get any better. Times when you just jump, punching the air and yelling out, “WOOHOO!!”

Synopsis: These poems will show you how there is always a bright side to any situation, how with happiness you can truly free yourself, and live without worrying about what might happen next.

Theme: Joy and happiness

Happy the Man by John Dryden

A Man In His Life by Yehuda Amichai

How still, how happy! by Emily Bronte

Happy Thought by Robert Louis Stevenson

How happy I was if I could forget by Emily Dickinson

A Happy Man by Edwin Arlington Robinson

Joy and Pleasure by William Henry Davies

Sadness and Joy by William Henry Davies

Where to go? – Benjamin Moore 2110-40

Where to go?

The left,

To the sweltering scorching sand

Where enormous sand castles

Stand.

Or the right

To the cold, chilly ocean

Where the waves

Are perfect,

Crashing not too soon

Nor too late.

Or maybe the middle,

Where everything

Is split in half

And you are

Lost in-between,

Undecided on which side to choose.

In-between where you

Have a bit of one side

And a bit of the other.

The young boy

Inexperienced,

A fledgling in life,

Thought of this…

Where to go…?

Maybe to a bar

Though I am not old enough,

Or a play ground,

But I am already

Too old.

He’s stuck in the middle

Where both ends

Meet,

Not knowing which side to choose…

Akin to a lost child

Trying to find their mother.

Book Review by Matthew Carlson

Catching fire by Suzanne Collins

Publisher: Scholastic

Genre: Science fiction, and Young Adult

Where I got it: It was the second book in the trilogy of the Hunger Games.

One Sentence Summary: It is the Quarter Quell, (the 75^th anniversary of when the Hunger Games started) all the 24 victors were forced to compete against each other in the Hunger Games again, Katniss knows that she is going to be competing against Peeta in the Games… again.

First sentence of the book: I clasp the Flask between my hands even though the warmth of the tea has long since leached into the frozen air.

Summary of first chapter: Katniss is being brought into the Victors Tour, where now she is going to live, as the victor of the hunger games. She was hoping to forget her traumatizing experience in the games, but living in the Victors tour made it impossible for her to forget. Her best friend Gale is now working on the mine. The occurrences in the hunger games have created a line between their friendship. Everything is different for Katniss since she got back from the games, and she knows they will never be the same. She always goes hunting leaving some food at Gales house, while he is at the mine. At the mob (the illegal trading area), she buys liquor for Haymitch (their Hunger Games trainer), and meets Haymitch at his house with Peeta. The chapter ends with Katniss encounter with the capitols president-President Snow, in her house in Victors tour.

Verdict: I liked this book, it was very interesting to see how Katniss and Peeta survived through the tortures and traumatizing experience in the hunger games again. How Katniss isn’t able to choose which one to love Peeta or Gale. The plot on how they survive through the arena and how Katniss does what she can to keep Peeta alive, keeps the readers intrigued, shocked, and amused. I recommend this book to people who like action and a bit of romance in it.

Cover: The cover attracts the reader at first sight, it gives them curiosity, makes them wonder why there is a bird-Jabberjay-on the cover? The Jabberjay is something that could kill them in the Hunger games. It uses their deepest fears, and their emotions to lead them into deadly life-threatening traps.

Ralph the Chosen Chief

He lost himself,

He was overcome

With astonishment.

He found himself understanding

the wearisomeness of this life.

The place of the assembly

In which he stood,

Was roughly a triangle

But irregular and sketchy,

Like everything

They made.

We have never had an assembly

This late,

But we need to put thing straight.

There must be no mistake

about this assembly,

no chasing imaginary.

The trouble is,

If your chief

You had to think

You had to be wise.

We need an assembly

Not for fun

Not for laughing,

And not for making jokes,

Or cleverness.

He took the conch,

The yellow and pink

To near-white and transperancy,

He faced the place of assembly

And put the conch on his lips.