I've given you the parameters of the Haiku to work within and now I'm setting you free. No limitations, no rules, no restrictions.
One word: "Unlocked"
Go.
*** ADDENDUM: Pay attention to directions children. Read between the lines. "And now I'm setting you free" means NO HAIKUS. This is a free verse poem with no limitations - any construction you want - just relate the poem to the one word prompt. Ugghh. Pay attention Pay-Leeze.
If you wrote a Haiku as your response, change it and re-post. Don't get lazy with these posts. They are a substantial part of your grade - low effort is going to drop your grade. Just so you know... Follow Ashley's lead. She consistently does a good job week to week - exemplary work Ash.
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The tempo of this world is meaningless, though the metronome does as it pleases
It races then it calms. Time, please stop, I'm scared I've taken too long
Take me away to a place with the moon and the stars,
The expressionless sky holds no answers and there are
spells being cast and magic I cannot control - this magic brings me back to easier times
far beyond that rabbit hole
Decipher, break, unlock, release. This is the song of my mind put together piece by piece
And my heart is so tired it smiles instead of crying - this song, I hate it, but my love is undying
I'm at war with my mind and I barely get along. Nothing will make me stop hating this song,
I'll never sing it again so I can finally stop thinking then
I can forget but the memories themselves will never go away.
What's left? High hopes for the future for heaven's sake.
Uhhhh I'm not really sure what we're supposed to do with this. Are we writing about whatever we want? Do we write a haiku or what Ashley did? I'm just going to write a haiku then...
I have a problem.
I am addicted to food.
It's just too damn good.
Unlocked. This word is like a golden ticket.
This is the day I have been waiting for.
I’m like a bird wanting to get out of my cadge.
This word is my hero.
It’s got true meaning to me
Been counting down the days
Until my world’s “unlocked”
I can’t wait much longer
Please, let this day come already
I’m ready for it, I feel prepared
Thanks for setting me free.
Now, my world is truly “unlocked,” its free
raech629@verizon.net
I was enclosed
in a case of glass
I was a hard shell
unable to be cracked
I was a door with a lock
but no key
That's what he made me
But you found
The right saw to
cut open the case
A crevice in my shell
to break it upon
And finally the key
to unlock my door
You unlocked me
Click. Click. Click.
Access Denied. Please try again.
Tap…tap…err…tap.
Access Granted. Please proceed.
Upon activation, the 18” x 12” screen comes alive;
My every wish is its command.
I have unlocked and unleashed its majesty.
I am free to navigate its massive storehouse of knowledge
In its entirety.
Selecting programs, documents, and games
To discover, create, build, or befuddle.
Spending hours and hours with my omniscient master
Where the memory is limitless.
e.e.butler@comcast.net
Locker Combination
5,7,32 Wrong
7,5,34 wrong
8,9,11 wrong
Mind boggling
spin, spin, spin, stop- 6
right
spin, spin, spin, stop- 12
left
spin, spin, spin, stop- 24
Click, Unlocked
I'm seven
I finally get to play in the brook
filled with adventure and danger
like the blood sucking ticks
I'm eleven
The brook is fun,
but now can play the james bond video games
thoroughly enjoying myself with the older kids
I'm sixteen
with some friends and car I own the streets
I can go to parties and whatever I want
I'm such a pro hanging with the bad asses
Next stop is 21
I'm hard at work in college getting a superior education
I'm living in a separate building, ridden of the parents
Total freedom
I'm only 22
but the army is forcing me into its war machine
Everyone in the row of my class was drafted
except for the girl
Why does she get more freedom than I do
We grow up wanting more
We grow up wanting "freedom"
We grow up demanding the rights of the country and society
But when will we have Total Freedom?
Email: nicocoup@msn.com
Where did we come from?
Where do we go when we die?
Is immortality possible?
Is immortal youth possible?
Is there a God?
Does fate exist?
These are questions people have asked for millenia
They have puzzled people for millenia.
They seem to have no answers.
Perhaps we will never know.
But I hope to one day,
Unlock them all.
shuffle, shuffle, grab.
shuffle, shuffle, grab.
A bag full of junk,
Yet I cannot find the only thing I need.
Please oh please,
I hope I remembered to take them!
Zip, un-zip.
There you are.
Top bolt,
Insert my key,
Turn left.
Doorknob,
Insert my key,
Turn right.
Finally, unlocked.
Syd1194@aol.com
I watch as anger crosses my brother's face.
A look of disgrace.
He viciously presses the keys.
Violence and killing on the screen he sees.
Finally, the level he has completed.
His life depleted.
The outside world he has blocked,
for the sake of an acheivement unlocked.
emmasharon94@yahoo.com
Come home from school
Finally free.
go into my cool basement
start blasting music
listening to thought provoking lyrics
nothing else matters
thats freedom
my mind is unlocked
BEEP,
I look around for the sound
BEEP
Im so confused and scared
BEEP
I cant move, Im restrained
BEEP
My life is in a panic
BEEP
I need to see my parents to say sorry
BEEP
I need to have tell my family i love them
BEEP
The BEEPS are getting slower
Must ... Say ... Sorry
BEEEEEEEEEP
Gateway to Heaven... Unlocked
I open my print bag
To my surprise there is no key inside
Where will I go what will I do
Ohh there is a spare
But where, where is the spare
It's not here not over there
wow the its right under there
Now open I'm finally here
Locked in a room
With no where to go
Hoping to find a little hole
To escape the crowded room
With no air to breathe
Suffocating from not being free
As my special day came in may
Blowing my wish to escape this way
The door unlocks
Letting me free
To explore the world with much to see
Unable to breathe
Suffocating, wondering when if I'll ever get out.
Seeing everyone around me
They have freedom, but what about me?
Stuck in this cage
Never to escape
Will I ever get my chance?
Will I ever get my wish?
Will I ever unlock this cage?
I guess if I'm destined to unlock this cage, my time will come soon.
I will get my chance.
I will get my wish.
I will unlock these bars, enclosing around, but not for longer.
kristie.varghese@gmail.com
Is this right?
Is this wrong?
Butterflies in my stomach
Words don't want to slip out my mouth
Thoughts of being hurt
Thoughts of happiness ready to spurt
Sweaty palms
Cheeks turning bright red
Holding onto the last bit of strength
Then. . .
I go on my tippy-toes
His arms wrap around me like an anaconda
The way he looks at me in my eyes
Hoping nothing he has told me were lies
I reach for his lips
It all seems like our first kiss
I've been finally unlocked
No longer do I have to keep love on lock
Walking through the town
Block after block, hill after hill
And what do I see
Emptiness
The idea that this is not meant to be
Is what i desperately want to see
This town, school, county, whatever it may be
All seems so fake to me
The desire to escape superceeds all others
Just so I can relieve myself from all these bothers
The people, their actions, even the dumb terrain
All cause some type of annoyance and even some pain
I see my my friends from the window I stare
I watch them closely and wish I could be
But from this window I can't seem to flea
Location Location Locaton is what screams out to me
Anywhere but this town is where I want to be...
How does it feel?
For a symbolic key to unlock
Like to Coming out of school after a stressful day
To take a shower in a clean bathroom
Like completing a level in a game that took you 20 hours
To hear silence after your troublesome nephew has gone to bed
To unlock a door with a worn key
After being stuck outside in the arctic chill for 2 hours
It is like a week long cough finally gone from your lungs
Like a research paper that is finally completed 10:00 at night
To come home from finals….
Knowing you don’t have to get out of bed at 5:50 in the morning
For 3 and half full months
To unlock is to unfold like a folding chair
In your nice shabby Patio, with a SOBE drink, and some music
F-R-E-E
My favorite word in the Webster Dictionary
Lets me be me
Allows me to fly
In the sky
With just me myself and I
Allows me to soar like a bird
Allows me to console my heart with these words – on my paper
Freedom lets my mind be the shaper
Of my unforeseen future
Allows me to measure the treasure that I have with leisure
F-R-E-E
You see these locks on my ankles and arms have been unlocked
These chains on my mind have been slain
These keys to my heart have finally been given to me
The new master of my own damn body
I can be myself
I don’t have to walk around all stealth-ily
And scared with my health
And scared to possess wealth
F-R-E-E
I am NOT jailed anymore
I can open the door to my own store
And not be abhorred by people
eo95@ymail.com
I never thought it would happen,
And especially to me,
This day it is so wondrous,
I can see the shining sea,
I’ve opened a world,
To a new beginning,
I can finally say these words,
I’m winning,
Years and years,
I have watched go bye,
Just as the stars do,
In the midnight sky,
I have found the secret,
The one no one could,
Who knew it was as hard,
As parenthood,
Locked away,
On these glorious days,
I’ve waited and waited,
To shout hooray!
The end has finally come,
And I say it’s not a dream,
But you should ask my heart,
It’s tearing seam by seam,
This day had grown closer,
Near and near,
One day I’ll be back,
Never ever fear,
The longer the days,
The longer the pain,
As I wait to end,
The never-ending rain,
Farewell and goodbye,
I’ll come visit you soon,
Just wait and wait,
For that special blue moon.
Wavering behind my locked existence
I feel you but I still don't know you
Sometimes this distance between us
Throws me into a rabid tantrum
It persuades me of your absence
And I feel empty
I fear that behind this locked door
Simply lies nothing
A nothing, which antagonizes and mocks
The interior that which has come to form me
A vestal incomplete
Occasionally this mighty door cracks
It reveals just enough for me to glimpse you
I’m complete
Everything is in tact and right
The picture is formed
It’s beautiful
I walk closer daring to see more
Like a cruel trick
A quick draft of wind
Re-Locks this seemly heavy door
Leaving once again what remains of this "me"
Olivia_taylor31@yahoo.com
'vestal' correction=vessel
Potential,
A word locked into my brain
Will I ever live up to it?
I've been trying to find the key
It seems as if it is non-existent
Time goes on.. Maturity strikes
I sense the key at the end of the tunnel
I am half way there
Two more years until all my hopes and dreams will be
Unlocked
In life we come to many doors
Most of the doors are locked
Theses are the obstacles in life
Many people spend days, weeks, years
Trying to avoid or get around these doors
People try so hard to avoid them,
It causes them to stress out
Makes them not think straight
While all this time
You had the right key
To unlock the door
Unlock the obstacle
joepedo@ymail.com
Age unlocks the world
When I'm 10 I can't wait to be called a teenager.
When I'm a teenager I can't wait to start driving.
When I start driving I can't wait to get into college.
When I get into college I can't wait to finally turn 21 and be of age.
After we are 21 we feel like everything is unlocked and we can accomplish any task we are faced with.
Age is what got us to the point with all of our responsibilities but when we age too much, we wish we had less responsibilities and were younger! We wish we still had our life to unlock so live life while you are young with all these locked doors because once they are all unlocked, life gets boring.
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