Rachael

Blessing by Imtiaz Dharker

The skin cracks like a pond. There never is enough water. Imagine the drip of it, the small splash, echo in a tin mug, the voice of a kindly god.

Sometimes, the sudden rush of fortune. The municipal pipe bursts, silver crashes to the ground and the flow has found a roar of tongues. From the huts, a congregation : every man woman child for streets around butts in, with pots, brass, copper, aluminum, plastic buckets, frantic hands,

and naked children screaming in the liquid sun, their highlights polished to perfection, flashing light, as the blessing sings over their small bones.

Defuski Island By: Rachael Hoffman

The water gleaming from the sun As the dolphins swim around us As we try to take pictures of them The boat moves Up and down up and down the dock is moving closer every time we look and finally we are there.

Our grandparents should be waiting there <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">We jump and jump but are blinded from the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">sun <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Getting off of the boat we look and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: blue; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">look <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Finally they spot <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">us <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">And coming running <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: fuchsia; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">down <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">We can’t wait to see <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">them

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">It has been a while since are last visit with <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">them <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">We drive to the house now we are finally <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: red; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">there <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">I look <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: fuchsia; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">down <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Then up as I get blinded by the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">sun <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">My grandma gestures <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> to <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">us <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">We go inside, I look and I <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: blue; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">look.

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Everything has changed, I just kept <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: blue; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">looking <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">At the pictures of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">them <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">The pictures of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">us <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Hanging on the wall here and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: red; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">there <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Some shinning from the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">sun <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">They are on all of the walls up and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: fuchsia; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">down

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Up and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: fuchsia; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">down <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">I keep <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: blue; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">looking <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">But the open window shows the shinning <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">sun <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">“ to the beach” said Bradley and I to <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">them <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">“we will get <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: red; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">there” <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">They replied to <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">us

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Their reply to <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">us <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Came true as we headed <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: fuchsia; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">down <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">To the beach, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">there <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">It is, we scream <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: blue; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">looking <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Out on the water, as we followed <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: red; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">them <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">To the sandy beach sparking in the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">sun

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">The fish in the water <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> looked at us looking <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Down on them as they ran away <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">it love it here I said, as I looked up to the sunny sky.

"fish in the water...... ran away" personification-- <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif;">fish are not human, they don’t have feet. Saying the fish ran away is another way of saying the fish swam away. "Grandma gestures" <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif;">Alliteration-- this tenchinque stays in the readers mind. As they read they tend to think back to the words that start with the same sound.

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By; Rachael Hoffman

Dreams are the life everybody wants. Reality is what stands in the way. When I go to bed, I lie there staring into the ceiling wishing, I could stay in my dreamland forever. Everything there is perfect. I have anything I could possibly wish for, And when something goes wrong I just close my eyes really tight and Bam ! it all goes away. It is so easy, it is like Magic. Every hour I spend in my dream, the more I want to stay. However when I wake in the morning nothing is the Same, so I long for the day my dreams become my reality.

"Bam" <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Onomatopoeia -- bam is a word that comes from a sound.

"same, so" alliteration-- same and so both start with "s" it is <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">the same consistent at the beginning of the words.