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This was an assignment to write about a place that was special to me.  I chose Carlisle Lake in Illinois...when the sun rises there it's spectacular.
This was also an assignment for my literature class and this is the follow up to the poem to the left.
The Lake
I'll Tell You How the Sun Rose
Have you seen it?
The place where
the sun meets
the water?
Surrounded by maples,
A bed of dry leaves
On the soft earth.
The birds sing
their 'good-morning' calls
the fish are stirring
round the shore
Landscaped in granite
and limestone white.
The wind carries
The campfire's scent,
My father's coffee
Brewing over a fire,
It's worth a world
Away from society
When you face the east
And that first ray
of golden sun
Streaks across the lake.
I'll tell you how the sun rose--
Streaks of liquid gold
White pillows pierced with yellow spears
The Blue Void illuminated with the glow.

The waters danced, now aflame,
Alive, it alerted upturned eyes
Angels danced across the sky
As the wind moved them along

The horizon slurped the glorious glow
The pillows stained in puple and pink
The eyes, they grow weary
As the spears are removed

The fire died and grew cold
Only embers now remained
Waiting to be poked and rekindled
for another day.
I wrote this one on a day where I felt all of the stereotypical propaganda that comes with school the hardest.  Hopefully, reading this will make you think.
A School More or Less Ordinary
The students sit; the bell rings
It's time to take the test
A teacher waves, teh chorus sings,
A school, just like all the rest.
Smiles and greetings, tossed about the hall
Oh, the company of friends.
They all seem to be having fun; but not all
One, just pretends.
Lunch: They sit and eat to refresh
Grouped in cliques of nine or ten
Some aren't allowed to sit wit the popular mesh
Intolerance, one of the evils of men.
One is forgotten, put down by them all.
The school is not a happy places
You can't walk proudly when the force you to crawl
The school is not a happy place(when you're a disgrace)
Since when was it a crime so foul
To be different, unique, to be your own?
Do you know what it's like when they look at you and scowl?
For how they treat you, you hope they'll reap what they've sown
There's only one thing that can remedy this
But it's something mankind seem incapable of
If you don't suffer like this, ignorance is bliss
Well, hurt would not be, if we could only learn to love.
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