Student Blogging Challenge Week 6: Poem

This is my original poem that I wrote when I was 6 years old! I hope that you enjoy it!

God to heaven

heaven to God

return to heaven

peace and mercy

I wrote this because God and heaven go together. God returns to heaven with peace and mercy. The whole piece together means God is heaven and heaven is God. Peace and mercy is everything is perfect and forgiven. There is no hate and everything is just the way it should be. In heaven there is peace and mercy. There are many different meanings in what this poem could mean but this is what it means to me and why I wrote it.

Choir Regionals!

This weekend I went to my choir regionals… I had sooooo much fun! We practiced all day and then in the evening we all had a concert. We had four different songs. Kyrie, A Red Red Rose, The Maidens Farewell, and Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.

Kyrie was a very slow graceful song. It was greek and there were only 3 words: Kyrie, eleison, and Christe. The pronunciation of Kyrie is Keehrieh. This means God. There are many different translations but this is the most common. Eleison is very soft and picky and is sung as eehlehyisōōn, the meanig is mercy. The final word is Christe. The pronunciation is very harsh with the C, Chreesteh, the meaning is Christ. This song you fill all of the R’s. All together the song is saying: God, God mercy. Christ, Christ mercy. But when sung in greek it is gorgeous.

A Red, Red Rose is a very beautiful slow song that requires a lot of strength. The harmonies are very difficult. There are 3 voice parts. Soprano 1, Soprano 2(thats what I am), and Alto. The melody belongs to the Soprano 1s, and the Altos and the Soprano 2s are the harmony. All together they have a beautiful song.

The Maidens Farewell is our A cappella piece. This tempo is very quick so we don’t get much of a break in between phrases to take a breath. This piece is an older lyric song and it requires you to open you mouth very tall like you are biting an apple. I love The Maiden Farewell because it has a very challenging way of singing it. The time signature is in 6/8 which all of the other pieces are in 4/4 or 3/4.

The final piece is Ain’t No Mountain High Enough. This is most likely a piece that you have heard but this was called our “fun piece”. The words on this was challenging to grasp especially when to come into sing. But this piece was up beat and fun. It was the last piece that we did and it is one of those songs that gets stuck in your head after you sing it.

I loved regionals and all the thugs that we sang but some of the songs were a little lengthy. I had a ton of fun but the best thing was performing.

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I am From…

I am from the colorful rooms,from the dog toys,from the bath scents.

I am from the two story house, with the old furniture.

I am from the palm trees in the front yard.

The flowers petals that have fallen off in the cold weather.

I am from the long line of over achievers and happiness.

From Valerie and John.

I am from the active and organized lifestyle, and from the telling of our best thing and our worst thing of our day.

I am from the lullabies that made me go to sleep and from the hopes and dreams, and from the never give up saying.

I am from the big family reunions.

I am from Austin,Texas and from the Germans, British,and Czechoslovakia,and the kolaches during Easter.
From the endless smiles from my mom when she sees all of us. From the recurring memories that I have every day.

Place

My favorite place in my house… The living room with the golden coach. I feel like I can think there. I can read there.
The blinding sunlight when I look out the window. I step back and see the sheer golden curtains glistening in the light. I grab my book and lay down on the coach with my back to the sun. The sun creates the perfect glow onto the pages of my book.
The golden swirls in the upholstery. The room is joyful. It doesn’t have a bunch of clutter or darkness, it’s perfect. The colors on the walls warm the room. My place is right in the living room, and I’m happy when I’m there.