MV writing

Cooper Feltes

English 9

Mr. Salsich

October 10, 2010

Martha’s Vineyard Freestyle Poems:

Poems from the Heart Written on Martha’s Vineyard

Ugliness of Nature:

Take nature, for example, and compare it only to what we see. What is available for us to look upon is limited by what we can discover. The creatures of the deep ocean need not be beautiful, for there are no eyes that are able to judge it. Whereas upon the shore, the people and animals are all easily seen by each other, for the haze of the murky water is unapparent. The people who experience utter and pure beauty on a regular basis do not know how to react at such vile looks, but the creature doesn’t mind, for it understands that these beautiful people know not what they do. From the creature’s point of view, this astounding beauty standing before him is incomprehensible. For days the beast tries to understand what it saw like an indoor cat that is let into the outside world for no more than  five minutes to explore everything it can, but when  the time expires, it is returned to its indoor environment. Naturally, the cat needs to get back out to keep exploring. Absorbing so many new things, as the creature has seen  so much unfamiliar beauty , the creature goes insane, even to a larger degree than the cat would, having seen such an unfamiliar world.

Keep them High:

Keep your thoughts high, for people will put you down, like the roaring and ferocious sea will see to it that the dunes will be destroyed and demolished by the raw power of nature. Dunes, using the same power, put the ocean back in its place by rebuilding itself. It keeps its thoughts high and realizes nothing that has happened in the past, and focuses only on rebuilding what it had, only better. The ocean is not satisfied. The waves keep trying and trying again, each time seeing the successful dune steal away its pride by becoming successively more powerful each cycle of tearing down and building up. The ocean doesn’t understand why it can’t defeat such a seemingly helpless enemy. The ocean hasn’t yet realized that the dune has a powerful mind that shields its eyes from the past and keeps looking towards the future. That is the way to live. The past can’t be changed, but it is only a matter of time until the once helpless dune basks in the defeat of its once more powerful enemy. That mental strength keeps the dune alive and strengthens it to a higher degree ever cycle of destruction and creation.

Hand Soap:

Forgiveness is like a full bottle of hand soap. A single person has only so much capacity to forgive a person until they realize that the people who constantly need forgiveness are the ones that can’t learn lessons. Patience eventually runs thin, and the bottle will run out of hand soap. Different people take different amounts of soap from the bottle of forgiveness, sometimes in big globs, or in little squirts. Being together with my classmates on Martha’s Vineyard for three straight days has taken out of my bottle, and I have had to forgive people time and time again for numerous different reasons. I am young, so my soap bottle is relatively full, but as I grow older, that won’t be the case. Refilling this soap bottle is a slow and lengthy process that can take years to reproduce any soap. The bottle itself gets worn down after decades of use, wear, and tear. Whether or not you decide to take the time to fill you bottle and concentrate on it, or whether you have noticed that people don’t break habits, you are eventually going to need a new bottle.