Fall As Autumn Comes

We are all leaves on a tree
waiting to fall as autumn comes.
We hold on trying not to drop too soon,
up high we all have each other,
but we are all alone,
this is true.
One by one we fall,
just another leaf on the ground.
We can never be forced,
we'll never be found.
As the snow melts,
and the fear is gone.
We all blossom again,
into the summer sun.
New fears and guilts,
success and love,
begins another thanksgiving
as autumn comes.

Curiosity

The beginning of this poem is very unique. It starts out with the title, rather than the first sentence itself. But that is one of the few things i liked about the poem. I love poetry and deep meaningful thoughts, but i actually thought by the beginning of this poem, that it was going to be about cats! I am not the crazy cat lady, but it probably would have been more enjoyable for me to read about something simple for once. The poet used great metaphors, but since i had an image of what the poem was supposed to be; it kind of ruined what the poem was. I give the poet credit for using a create way of turning curiosity into a human problem rather than a cat problem since we are born into that believing. Over all though, i did not enjoy reading this poem. I honestly read it 5 times, and still cannot catch the meaning. Maybe it's the fact i put that wall up because it is'nt what i wanted it to be about.

For The Sleepwalkers

I interpreted this poem as if the author was trying to tell the readers that some people just walk through this life carelessly and sometimes those people wake up to be the happiest or most content. Some people live their lives searching for love and hoping and that doesnt always get them far, but with people living their lives without the search of love sometimes life just gently guides them to their happiness. Life guides them with little hints such as the arrow in the floor and faith in their legs. I think this poem was beautifully written and has a lot to do with love when looking at it with that persepective.

A Noiseless Patient Spider

This poem uses many metaphors in order to get his ideas across about how everything has more than one vast meaning. A spider is often never thought as a meaningful being of life, we can kill spiders without feeling guilty and never think about it twice. Humans on the other hand, have that ability to know they are meaningful, but people do not usually understand that they are important to others. Many people feel like a part of darkness in space, and nothing more. Mostly people who have experienced a stroke or some other illnesses have the same feeling of not knowing where their bodies begin and where they end. They feel as if space itself has expanded and that is what they are. This poem makes me relate to that feeling that i've been learning about in my other classes. The poet Walt Whitman after resesarching was known for having a stroke and having an amazing medical team and family to help him back to a healthier state. This was an amzing discovery for me because i believe that may have been a motive for writing such an unexplaned poem. Also in this poem the word filament was used in repetition, i looked up the word, and filamentation is anomalous growth such as E. Coli, this definition may not have been what the poet was meaning to get across, but i believe this poem had a complete medical, symbolic message. And Gossamer thread is a spider silk! just some crazy facts that ended up falling together that i wonder if other students figured out this same meaning, because i am 99.9% sure now that this is what the poet was trying to express.