Poems

Yesterday I was so scared! We had to say our poems that we picked to the whole class. I was scared because I had to memorize it off by heart. We also had to mark each others poems on their actions, expression, speed, confidence how loud they were. My poem that I chose was by  J. R. R.  Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Once I had done it I was so relived. The poem goes like this. 

Although now long estranged,

Man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed.

Dis-graced he may be, yet is not de-throned,

and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned:

Man, Sub-creator, the refracted Light

through whom is splintered from a single White

to many hues, and endlessly combined

in living shapes that move from mind to mind.

Though all the crannies of the world we filled

with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build

Gods and their houses out of dark and light,

and sowed the seed of dragons- 'twas our right

(used or misused). That right has not decayed: 

we make still by the law in which we're made.

I memorized the whole thing! I did it so well that the depute principal came to see me and Ari and said we were great. I loved the rest of the day after that. I had a great time.