Alina

When Death Comes By Mary Oliver

When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn ; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse

to buy me, and snaps the purse shut; when death comes like the measle-pox

when death comes like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,

I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness ?

And therefore I look upon everything as a brotherhood and a sisterhood, and I look upon time as no more than an idea, and I consider eternity as another possibility,

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">and I think of each life as a flower, as common <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">as a field daisy, and as singular,

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">and each name a comfortable music in the mouth, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">tending, as all music does, toward silence,

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">and each body a lion of courage, and something <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">precious to the earth.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">When it's over, I want to say all my life <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">I was a bride married to amazement. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">When it's over, I don't want to wonder <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">if I have made of my life something particular, and real.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">or full of argument.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.



<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">The Mysteries of the human heart <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By Alina <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Others might say that they are like a ball of yarn; with one tug they will become unraveled. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am the opposite; it takes much more than a little tug for me to unravel. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Others cry over the simplest things, <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But my tears do not flow freely. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When I cry it must truly be devastating. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You see I am different. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have been hardened by the actualities of life. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I wonder why people go and see scary movies, <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When reality is scary enough <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When you think about it we are traveling into the unknown. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We will not know what the future has in store for us. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We are no longer children nor are we adults. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We are expected to be able to make our own decisions, but we don’t always know what is good for us. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We are caught in the middle. The area that helps define us <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Where we build who we are in a safe environment <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is where we learn everything from when and how to love someone to how to pass a geometry test. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">With all of this you might think that I do not love freely, but that is one contradiction to who I am <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When I love someone I give them my whole heart. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And I will not let them go of them as long as they don’t let go of me. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is great, but it is also a curse. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When you love someone and you give them your heart, that had been broken so many times before. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You think that they are the one exception, the one that will love you and give you their heart <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But as always they are not the exception they are in fact the rule. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then your heart just gets broken into a million pieces again. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But no matter what they do they always seem to take a piece of your heart with them, so no matter what you do your heart will never be whole again. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hopefully I will be able to hold onto enough pieces of my heart so that when I do find the exception I will be able to give him my fragile heart <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then maybe my heart can start to heal <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Maybe it will someday be whole again.


 * Grammar** **By Alina**

<range type="comment" id="194069">I am the one thing you have not mastered

I wonder why you can’t just understand

I hear nothing that you say

I see you slaving over your tests and quizzes

I worry that you will fail because I am too hard

I want to be the most beloved thing about English class

I pretend to be easy

I<range type="comment" id="412926"> feel remorseful when I make you cry

I touch the deepest and darkest places of your heart

I worry your parents about your grades

I cry only when I have not done my job

I am your biggest nightmare

I understand that you hate me

I say only things that will get me noticed

I dream of making children like you realize your full potential

I hope that I will not ever be too hard for you

I am grammar


 * English Class By Alina**
 * E**cstatic in the mornings when I find that,
 * N**othing stands in the way of me having English class first period.
 * <range type="comment" id="953664">G**liding up the stairs trying to get there as fast as I can
 * L**oving every minute of English class
 * I**t is inconceivable how anybody would not like it
 * S**ure enough it is the best class in the world, and its home is the class room that is
 * H**ome to Mrs. Nobles
 * C**reativity is never ending in this class
 * <range type="comment" id="976288">L**earning the lessons of English is the best part of my day.
 * A**fter English class I am sad because I won’t have it again until tomorrow, One English class a day is not
 * S**ufficient for me, I
 * S**hould just stay in English class all day

**A**ll knowing **N**ot interested **T**umultuous **I**ndecisive **D**oting **I**nstinctive **S**elf-pitied **E**namored **S**ultry **T**ime wasting **A**bolishment **B**ullying **L**ord of establishment **I**ncite me with the **S**hared knowledge of the world **H**inder my thought process with all of your achievements **M**ake me want to establish something, you **E**gotistical **N**emesis of **T**he world **A**re you happy? **R**eceiving the retributions of our society **I**ntellectual beasts holding us **A**gainst our will waiting for us to  **N**ot have knowledge of your real goal **I**nstead of helping the world become a better place you **S**nub our comments and ignore our **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">M **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">ad cries for help
 * Antidisestablishmentarianism **