A Morning in the Rainforest

 A morning in the rainforest,

As breathtaking as can be,

The birds twitter cheerfully,

As the sun is set free,

A bear pokes his head,

Out of his homely den,

As the beetles scutter for leaves,

To keep their little ones fed,

The sun's rays delicately touch 

A sleeping pack of wolves,

"Wake up," the sun says, "it's time for a new day".

A young wolf pup stirs awake,

Roused by the sun's very first ray,

Nearby a butterfly,

Slurps its nectar,

Watching the rainforest rise,

Yesterday is gone,

Tomorrow is yet to come.

So get ready for what today lies. 

Uplifting poem: Almost Flying

 

Almost Flying

The branch stands ready,

Perfect to perch on,

It’s too high to jump,

Too high to leap,

But there is a way,

A way that no one’s tried;

Close your eyes,

And break the chains that hold you down,

Unknot the ties that keep you from

Breaking into flight

Up and up and up you go,

Oh, gravity, you are defied,

But instead of reaching for the branch,

You reach for the sky.

New Poem: Home

Home : 05/16/2021

Look out the window,

Look out of the city,

Into the fertile lands,

This is Earth we all share,

And her fate is in our hands

Through hardship and despair,

Mother Earth was always there,

Can’t we do the same for her?

Beckoning you to her warm embrace,

With open arms she waits

For you to hug her back,

Listen to her heartbeat echo through the ground,

Listen as she breathes gracefully in and out,

Rustling her trees and grass,

Then look at what you have done to her,

Where there was once a pine,

Now lies a house,

Where a family of bears once lived,

Now lies a school.

My question is:

How could we be so cruel?

Cruel to our planet,

To the beautiful land we have misused,

This is not a fight,

Nor an argument,

It is a truth,

Don’t fight,

Unite. 

Bring light,

Into the growing darkness,

Let’s take a stand for home

For we must face,

What we have done wrong,

We cannot wait,

Until it is too late,

We must do it now. 

Help this small lonely speckle in space,

We have wronged her;

We must make it right;

This sphere of blue and green,

This orb of beauties unseen,

Earth is more than just a dazzling dome,

Earth is our one, our only, our beautiful home.

The Ghost of the Mountain

Disclaimer and Advisory: Ages 9 and up. 

A great story for sleepovers. Show this picture as either an online background or just a beginning pic. Scary music provided. 

High up the mountain, down, past the butcher's cabin, lies a grave. Marked with just numbers. It is said that every year September 2nd (the end of World War II) the grave awakens. A terrible fate awaits the person who sees the ghost. The ghost's heart is set on revenge. Revenge against the Nazis and their descendants.  

Everyone on that mountain knows this poem:

Slowly, swiftly that ghost glides,

On a dark night with cloudy skies,

High in the mountains,

through the winding path,

Get ready to face thy waiting wrath,

No moon to guide thee,

Now, the ghost is free. 

This is the story of a foolish girl named Anne.

It was a particularly rainy day on Mt. Breton. Ann was vacationing at her grandparents' house.  The mountain was named after her great-grandfather, so Anne was respected in the mountain. Little did she know that this mountain was haunted. As the rain started pouring, Anne raced to her grandparent's house.  As she went to the window. Anne saw a figure outside. The rain stopped. The droplets came together. Anne watched in astonishment as the droplets formed the shape of the face. It had no eye sockets, it was deformed. The thing opened its mouth. 

Anne was frozen she couldn't scream! 

Then the thing spoke. Its voice was raspy. It spoke like a rusty nail scraping against metal. " It's coming tonight, beware." Just as it came, the thing vanished. The rain pounded on.

Anne couldn't get the words out of her head. "It's coming tonight". She made a mental note to stick close to her parents that night. Curiosity won the fight against fear. Anne started walking toward the mountain. She trudged up the gloomy mountain. On the way, Anne found a cemetery. So she creaked open the gate and went inside. Suddenly, her watch beeped. It was sundown. Whatever it was it is coming tonight. Anne ran toward the cemetery entrance. But it was too late. The gate had locked. 

Grave started was moving. The ground rumbled. Anne hears a bloodcurdling scream from inside the grave. The ground parted. Anne had expected there to be a corpse. But instead, there were multiple bodies. One looked like it was buried recently. It was a girl about her age. With a stunned expression on her face. She looked like she was screaming. The main coffin rose into the air, right in front of Anne. 

"Open me," a raspy voice said from nowhere in particular. 

"OPEN ME".

 Anne reached out trembling hand and opened the coffin.

 The ghost was unleashed !!

This Morning

Hello loyal readers! Sorry about the long break. This is a new poem. It is based on a true story of what I heard in the morning of Feb 19th 2021. Hope you like it. 

 This Morning

This morning I woke up at three am

To the pounding rain and thunder

The lightning flashed in the sky,

The covers, I went under,

The rain started coming in waves,

And its ominous shadows skidded my dark room,

It didn’t stop it just coming,

I thought it was the beginning of my doom,

But then I thought of the burnt-sienna-grass,

Shriveled from winter cold,

I don’t like to see the grass this way, 

Its sad and thirsty, brown and gold

The grass slurps the rain up and swallows it joyfully,

Regardless of its salty taste,

It takes each sip with a sigh of relief

Nice and happy-faced.

Book vs. movie review: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

 The Harry Potter series consists of seven books, all are written by the author J.K. Rowling. Click on the link below to learn more about her.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Rowling

The world of Harry Potter is a magical world. Harry James Potter starts out as a young boy living under the staircase in his abusive aunt and uncle's house. His parents were killed by an evil wizard, Lord Voldemort, who was taking over the Muggle (non- wizard) and Wizarding world. Voldemort tried to kill baby Harry but fails. Harry was the first person to survive the killing curse. The curse left nothing but a cursed scar on Harry's forehead. His aunt and uncle (who hated Harry's parents) convinced him that his parents were killed in a car crash. On his eleventh birthday, a stranger comes into the house that the Dursleys and Harry were temporarily living in. The stranger, named Rubeus Hagrid, claimed to be the groundskeeper at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He said that Harry was a wizard and that Harry had been chosen to go to Hogwarts to learn magic. For the first time, Harry felt like he was home. He made friends and foes. He played the most famous Wizarding sport: Quidditch. But, unexpectedly, Harry stumbles on something top secret. He and his best friends, Hermione Jean Granger and Ronald Bilius Weasley, find themselves in a forbidden room with a giant dog with three heads. It seemed as if the dog was guarding something. But what? After many days at the library, they soon find the answer. It was a stone. A stone of immortality referred to as the Sorcerer's Stone. Could the Sorcerer's Stone be in danger? Harry soon finds himself in a life or death situation? Can he survive? Will he be able to save the stone? In this epic fantasy novel, J.K. Rowling takes the reader into land of magic and friendship. Bravery and courage. But all in all, she takes us into a land of magic and wizardry.

Of course, the movie was a famous too. The first Harry Potter book: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was made into a movie and released on November 14th, 2001. The movie starred Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, Emma Watson as Hermione Granger (one of Harry's best friends), and Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley (one of Harry's best friends). The movie, directed by Chris Columbus, became a hit soon after it released. The movie crew had lots of help from the Harry Potter series writer: J.K. Rowling. 

In my opinion, I like the movie in some parts and the book in the others. The movie left out some parts, as movies does(as it is difficult to comprehend such a lengthy book in 2 hr 30 minutes movie), but overall it provided a  good visual aspect of the book. There are some scenes where movies did the justice to the fantastic story while in other part book was more detail.  For example, I think that the movie exaggerated Hermione's bossiness which is not very visible in the book. Also, the movie had more humor than the book. The book definitely made more sense than the movie because it was more descriptive. 

Both the book and the movie are amazing to watch and read. But what I would suggest the young readers to read the book first and then watch the movie. This will help all to understand the characters and story better. 

 

POEM: Spark

In the depths of a great, deep hole, a boulder rolls down,

crushing us but not our souls.

We have ridden the tides of the sea,

sometimes struggling, sometimes free.

Because, like a phoenix, we shall rise from our ashes,

and fly like a bird that never crashes.

But now when we are tormented and messed,

tired and suppressed.

There is still a spark, that will always be there,

a lingering seed which we will never forswear.

The spark turns to a dancing flame,

Beautiful and bright, wild and untamed.

However bad things might get,

remember that flicker, that seed, that spark.

That light that will lead you, no matter how dark.