Simple Sentences: Create a poem with at least 10 lines of simple sentences.
An Anti-Bucket List Declaration
I declare to never eat split pea soup, nor any dish involving mashed peas of any kind.
I will never go to the dentist without brushing my teeth to ensure the freshest of breath.
I will never own a bird. Think dive-bombing seagulls on a beach destroying my braided hair.
I will never sing opera or be a movie star. I just don’t have the talent.
I will never soar to outer space as I prefer the comfort of this place we call Earth.
I will never live in New York City or any major city for that matter. I need mountains, bodies of water, and clean air.
I declare to never visit a tanning salon or purposefully lay out in the sun. Melanoma scares me to death.
I will never enter into an agreement without keeping my promise to fulfill my obligations.
I will never be angry enough that I do not forgive and forget for forgiveness shows love and respect.
I will never make a person feel less than human by judging his race, color, age, or religion.
I will never be embarrassed for correcting your grammar. I want you to sound like an intelligent individual.
I will never live without reading and writing for they drive my passion and help me to explore the world in which I live.
An Anti-Bucket List Declaration
I declare to never eat split pea soup, nor any dish involving mashed peas of any kind.
I will never go to the dentist without brushing my teeth to ensure the freshest of breath.
I will never own a bird. Think dive-bombing seagulls on a beach destroying my braided hair.
I will never sing opera or be a movie star. I just don’t have the talent.
I will never soar to outer space as I prefer the comfort of this place we call Earth.
I will never live in New York City or any major city for that matter. I need mountains, bodies of water, and clean air.
I declare to never visit a tanning salon or purposefully lay out in the sun. Melanoma scares me to death.
I will never enter into an agreement without keeping my promise to fulfill my obligations.
I will never be angry enough that I do not forgive and forget for forgiveness shows love and respect.
I will never make a person feel less than human by judging his race, color, age, or religion.
I will never be embarrassed for correcting your grammar. I want you to sound like an intelligent individual.
I will never live without reading and writing for they drive my passion and help me to explore the world in which I live.
Compound Sentences: Create a poem with at least 10 lines that uses all coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS)
"Never Again"
never again will i be a fool that falls for your lies, for
never again will i put my trust in your hands, and
never again will i have so much shame, nor
will i go through so much pain, but
i can stand on my own, so
i will stand on my own
it took me awhile, but
now i know
that you took me as one big joke
i was blind, but
now i see
i see that you could never love me, yet
you were my first love and
my first heart break
deep down inside i still love you, or
at least I think I do, but
i can't be with you
not now, nor
later
not ever
Adapted from a poem by Brittany M.
http://www.scrapbook.com/poems/doc/43001.html
"Never Again"
never again will i be a fool that falls for your lies, for
never again will i put my trust in your hands, and
never again will i have so much shame, nor
will i go through so much pain, but
i can stand on my own, so
i will stand on my own
it took me awhile, but
now i know
that you took me as one big joke
i was blind, but
now i see
i see that you could never love me, yet
you were my first love and
my first heart break
deep down inside i still love you, or
at least I think I do, but
i can't be with you
not now, nor
later
not ever
Adapted from a poem by Brittany M.
http://www.scrapbook.com/poems/doc/43001.html
Complex Sentences: Create a poem with at least 10 lines that uses subordinating conjunctions (SWABI + 1)
"The Moment"
If you remember the moment when, after many years
of hard work and a long voyage,
you stand in the center of your room,
house, half-acre, square mile, island, country,
knowing at last how you got there,
you say, I own this,
Since this is the same moment when the trees unloose
their soft arms from around you,
After the birds take back their language,
Before the cliffs fissure and collapse,
the air moves back from you like a wave
and you can't breathe.
No, they whisper. You own nothing.
You were a visitor, time after time
climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming.
We never belonged to you
Because you never found us.
It was always the other way round.
Adapted from a poem by Margaret Atwood
"The Moment"
If you remember the moment when, after many years
of hard work and a long voyage,
you stand in the center of your room,
house, half-acre, square mile, island, country,
knowing at last how you got there,
you say, I own this,
Since this is the same moment when the trees unloose
their soft arms from around you,
After the birds take back their language,
Before the cliffs fissure and collapse,
the air moves back from you like a wave
and you can't breathe.
No, they whisper. You own nothing.
You were a visitor, time after time
climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming.
We never belonged to you
Because you never found us.
It was always the other way round.
Adapted from a poem by Margaret Atwood
Types of Sentences: Create a NEVER list that includes at least 10 items and at least one example of each of the four types of sentences (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative).
Excepts from 50 Things I Will Never Do
by MORGAN DRAGONWILLOW on JANUARY 22, 2014
Excepts from 50 Things I Will Never Do
by MORGAN DRAGONWILLOW on JANUARY 22, 2014
- Jump out of a perfectly good airplane. Not going to do it.
- Eat worms. Ewwww!
- Go on the game show Survivor. That is not even remotely something I would do. (I guess you think I am pretty boring about now. Don’t care.)
- Wrestle with a crocodile. Um why? Why would anyone want to?
- Eat monkey brains. I saw this on one of the Indiana Jones movies, and I am really not that adventurous.
- Work in a chicken processing plant. Enough said.
- Stay the night in a creepy haunted house. You can do that one.
- Swim with sharks. I know there are a lot of thrill seekers out there, but I’m really not one of them.
- Watch anymore scary movies. Not-going-to-do-it. I have nightmares for months, when I can even fall asleep.
- Tightrope walking. Not even if it is only a few feet off the ground.
- Run in a marathon. I love to speed walk but not a fan of running. I have been known to say, “I’m not running unless someone is chasing me.”
- Climb a ridiculously tall mountain. I know there are those that love this challenge, but I like breathing and all of my fingers and toes.
- Make everyone else more important than myself. We are equally important.
- Tell someone they weren’t talented. That’s just mean and everyone is talented at something.
- Roller coaster. Hate them, they make my stomach hurt horribly.
- Swim in a lake. I don’t like swimming in any water that I can’t see into. Just creepy.
- Hitch Hike. I’ve seen way too many movies that didn’t end well for the hitch hiker.
- Bungee jump. I was once told it felt like every bone was jerked out of the socket. Yeah like that is something I want to feel.