Hands across the Oceans

Acrostic Poems

Instructions:

Write an acrostic poem about recycling and water. You may choose any other scientific word, e.g. oxygen, nitrogen fixation, organic compounds, electricity, physics. If it is a poem, it should rhyme (die/lie, life/wife).

http://www.readwritethink.org/MATERIALS/ACROSTIC/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/C42

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A43701086

E.g Guide

Go ahead, I’ll follow you

Until the end of time.

I hope my dreams will once come true:

Dreams, that you will be mine,

Eventually here to stay,

Showing me the way.

1 Recycling

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2 Water

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B Haiku

A Haiku is a 3 line poem

http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/

http://www.haiku.insouthsea.co.uk/teachbasho_self1.htm

1 The Avenues

Sitting in the Avenues

Watching the world go by

I thought about my life

2

Whitecaps on the Bay

A broken signboard banging

In the April wind.

Richard Wright (collected in Haiku: This Other World, Arcade Publishing)

Maha Toma Al-Shammari

Once I heard that ” Dreams

are created to not be true ”

but I have always believed that without dreams nothing

can be true …

10 – 6 -2005

Saturday

To climb the highest mountain .. is an adventure

To fight wild animals in that dark forest .. is an adventure

To cross a barren desert with no fear .. is an adventure

But ..

The huge adventure is .. to live in this world happily and die with smile on your face

11 – 6 -2005

Sunday

Sometimes you need to lie to prove to others that you are still what they want you to be ..

12 – 6 -2005

Today .. to live in this world is more frightening than death itself!

Monday

In court you can be on the defense’s side to prove your innocence ..

Or ..

be on the prosecutor’s side where you can prove that man’s guilt

But ..

When ” fate ” becomes the judge , none of us will have the ability to open his or mouth or even breathe, and his or her words will be the last thing you hear ..

13 – 6 – 2005

Tuesday

If you have the ability to create

Then ..

You will have the ability to change this world, for better or worse!!

14-6-2005

Everything dies except love. It remains till the last breath

15-6-2005

Thursday

Only those who don’t believe in normality can change the world .

2 -3- 2006

Saturday

Humans always have a reasonable excuse for their reactions and mistakes, whenever you tell them they are guilty.

25-3-2006

Tuesday

1. Friends are the vein of life..

The heart..

And the smile..

2. A person with no friends has no soul

29-3-2006

Saturday

Don’t be sad cause a year has been added to your

age ..

Be thankful ..

It’s God’s gift to you and remember that if a year was added here, a year died over there on the other side of the world J

1-4-2006

Monday

Don’t forget to play after every storm.

10-4-2006