Today's crappy high school poem is brought to you by the tanka, a style of Japanese poetry. You probably know about the haiku, the poem written with five syllables on the first line, seven on the second, and five on the third. The tanka is similar. There are five lines, and the first three are just like the haiku. Then there are seven syllables on ( Read more... )

Today's edition of Crappy Poetry Week comes in sonnet form. I don't know what was going on in my head at the time. All I know was that doing a poetry unit right after a breakup was not a good idea. Too much bad romantic angst poetry comes from it ( Read more... )

Today's crappy poem is a high school poem of the getting over love variety. Specifically, getting over dating one of your best friends and everyone knowing it ( Read more... )

In the next installment of crappy poetry week, we have another poem from tenth grade. This one is supposed to look like the thing it's talking about. (There's a name for that, but I don't feel like looking it up.) I wrote mine comparing life to a hurricane.

Life is ( Read more... )

I went through some of my old papers today, and in those papers I found a poetry collection I did in tenth grade. Some of the poems were by other people, but a few of them were my own. Reading through my poems reminded me why I don't write poetry. Not because I'm bad at it (though I am), but because my writing style is much more suited for prose. ( Read more... )

I showed Jeffrey how to sell stuff on eBay a few nights ago. He wanted to get rid of some of his old textbooks (understandable), so we started looking through eBay and Amazon to see what would sell well. After doing some preliminary research we threw a few books on eBay I had to explain everything to him, and he had bought on eBay before, while I ( Read more... )

When I was a high school sophomore, we studied Julius Caesar in my English class. I'm guessing one of our assignments was to write something that reflected Caesar's character. Here's what I came up with.

In which the worlds of Squidward Tentacles and Julius Caesar collide (no, I'm not kidding ( Read more... )

Okay, time for the best part. High school math funnies ( Read more... )

I've been doing quite a bit of reading over the past few days. Among other things, I read Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson, which my brother had to read over the summer for his 11th grad honors English class. The only reason I remember this is because he showed me the list, and I noticed that he had some different books. I told him that I ( Read more... )

I'm back in Podunk! You know what this means ( Read more... )