Tuesday, May 09, 2006

- Poem by Zach Dionise, Grade 7

Once solid and strong, now thrown off balance.
Broken on the shore, unstable evermore,
Steady and undivided, now riffs gaping large.
Undecided, hesitant, loyalties destroyed.
In an instant, an endless, timeless, compassionate instant,
Everything thrown carelessly in disarray ... Dismay.
Dismay for precious moments lost,
Lost in the endless, timeless, compassionate instant.

Restore.
Restore what seemed to be lost for evermore.
Throw back lies, and return strong ties,
Growing slowly as long lost summer's heat.
With moving words and gentle words, may this life be revived?
Yet with each small step, of trust and truth,
Troubles won and lost each way,
Each show equally victories and failures,
Only with this will the life be restored.

However, is it strong, is it of merit worth?
Will this broken shell's restore survive for evermore?
Time will tell, and time will kill,
Nevertheless, time will help all to grow.
Grow to the sky, up and up,
Or down to Satan's halls.
Only time will tell,
If the endless, timeless, compassionate instant will prove fatal after all!

Does Zach's poem remind you of another famous poem? Click on comments to make your guess.

Hint: "chamber door"

The first person to answer correctly will receive a whole lot of thunderous applause here in the comments section.

(Zach, Zach's friends, Zach's family, and Zach's pet armadillo are ineligible for this mind-numbing prize... As is everyone on staff here at Weekly Reader... Walk away, Jives... just walk away.)


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StudentWriter    Posted by
StudentWriter
on 5/9/2006
4:19 PM
5/10/2006 2:52:44 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
I know the answer! But I feel like keeping it to myself because I'm oh so strange and elusive. But here's another hint. If you speak Swedish.

Trött en natt jag satt och drömde vid en gammal bok, där glömde,
bakom seklers förlåt gömde tankar hägrade förbi.
Knappt jag börjat slumra, förrän något knackade på dörren,
något pickade på dörren, ticketick det ljöd däri.
Upp jag blickade och sade, väckt ut ur mitt drömmeri:
"Nå stig in! Vem söker ni?"
5/10/2006 11:20:30 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
well, I don't know Swedish, and I'm too lazy to look up the translation, soo...let's see repeated use of evermore, hint was chamber door. Lemme guess, is it Edgar Allan Poe's, the Raven? :D
5/11/2006 7:44:28 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
Yay!!!! Em/Smo-mo is the winner!!! Yes of course, "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe was what we were looking for. Now, as promised, here is your thunderous applause...

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10/27/2006 8:42:19 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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