Essay #21 Friendship

Friendship

Dear reader,

            This essay of mine is meant to stimulate multiple genres of writing. This multi-genre essay is made to explain what friendship means to me. Please read the following with care and an open and deep consideration for what it means.

Expository paragraph:

            Friendship takes its twists and turns, sometimes ending up in better shape than before. Sometimes not(purposeful sentence fragment). I have multiple friends that follow this pattern. I won’t mention any names, but some days I feel this friend is my best friend, and other days this friend doesn’t want to be anywhere near me. I never really know if he is my friend or not. Some friends that I have follow this pattern in larger periods of time. For example, I used to be friends with some people a year ago, but have lost touch with them since. This is because friendship follows its patterns of ups and downs. Through this pattern, we are able to find who our true friends are by who we keep as friends.

Haiku:

They were always friends,

Forgot about each other.

Never talked again

Picture poem:

Look at these gentleman.

They’ve most likely been friends for decades.

They’ve taken and passed the friendship test.

Now they just have to keep in touch.

This friendship is a friendship that is only given at an older age.

It doesn’t matter to these two if the other is republican or democrat,

which is sometimes a real problem in friendships of adults,

or black or white, they just have fun together. 

They most likely can't remember where they met,

or how for that matter!

I imagine both of them sitting on the stage of a bar,

playing jazz and entertaining hundreds of people.

These people are out at the bar with their friends.

I see two young friends asking the two older gentleman to take a picture with them.

All four of them smile a wide and photogenic smile, and snap the photo.

This photo will be kept, to remind both pairs of friends that they know how to have a good time.

Free verse(about Romeo and Juliet)

Oh Juliet,

you tease your new boyfriend.

Isn't that a good idea?

Keep him interested while you add years onto your grand total.

Smart idea!

Your mother did set an example as a young one,

but thats okay.

You seem to be making the right decision.

Yet look at you! You're a beautiful young woman who was born from a young womb.

Doesn't that make it possible that your child will be the same way?

I mean, if a mother is beautiful, her daughter will most likely be the same.

Not to worry Juliet, you have a handle on the situation.

You are keeping "the worm" out of your "bud".

Though your decisions may upset Romeo, he will accept it, because he loves you. 

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Self Assessment:


This essay was AWESOME! especially the freestyle poem. I don't know what it was about it, but I had a lot of fun writing it. I felt like I repeated quite a few things in the picture poem and in the freestyle poem, but I usually have a lot of trouble doing this, and it is still something I am working on.
Self-grade,
A-