Poetry to Film links
I just figured that we could post them here? So Ms. Klein can access them all in one place?
Jade Peterson: Numbers and Starbucks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JcWW_oVcpw
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here's the link to my video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KMGX-2B4Uw
sorry I won't be there today... do you guys think you can just watch it without me? I'll give Ms. Klein a copy of the poem, if you can't hear it.
Great idea, Jade--thank you for setting this up.
here's an edited version with WAY better sound:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AIhw6RBxzc
make sure to watch it all the way to the end, special messages and stuff in the credits 
This post was edited on: 2010-05-07 at 12:23 PM by: ameyer
aurora, you're awesome. your performance piece is...otherworldly (i don't even know how else to put it). and--i'll say it again--you have the greatest voice. would you post the text on here, please? i really want to read it!
Aurora, your piece is brilliantly beautiful. I loved it. The goodbye to the seniors at the end was adorable, the poem was thought-provoking and deeply intriguing, and the images of SMA woven in made me want to cry (but maybe it's just the time of year =]). And I remain obsessed with your voice lol. =)
-Katie
P.S.- Jen, my video is called "polyphony" and the link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHpUbsi0NjE
oh and i second emily's request for text! please!!!
here's mine....
(i hope this link works)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHp61xZs9n4
Here's the text for you guys. I'm glad you liked it. But I miss you guys, hope you all have a great time in college.
Thanks for the links Katie and Sarah, I really liked them. Hope everyone links!
There’s no
There’s no marrow in this poem
There’s no meat in its bones
It’s like dust that was somebody’s flesh
Floating in the breeze and I
Try to reconstruct their memory
There’s no reason to this rhyme
No meter ticking out predictable time; it just happens
Like stars sprinkling themselves
Naively across the skies
And human eyes take them in as constellations
Because these accidental shapes look too real
There’s no reason to believe in a constellation
When I look at my dark ceiling every night
At swirls of glow-in-the-dark stars
And I wonder, is the magic of the stars
simply that they make strikes of light
These plastic pieces have nearly the same magic
I’m thinking way too late at night
I look at the little star shaped-lights on the ceiling
And realize this is like graffiti this is fleeting human contact
Between me and the child who put the stars on my ceiling
And the Stickers on my door
Then removed their ghost to make room for me
The stars in the sky they are only a memory
Fleeting cosmic contact with galaxies from a long time ago
Even light can’t travel faster than life
The fleeting life of a child alive somewhere, and a star that may already be dead
But think if someday we could send a rocket ship to faraway galaxies
Find the new stars replacing every one we’ve seen before
But think if one day I meet this ghostly family
With grown up children who don’t believe in decoration anymore
The things that died have a record
Here
There’s no guarantee in an afterlife is there
There’s no way to prove it
Everyone who dies takes it with them
There’s no guarantee that my floating poem unanchored
By the weight of these human bones
Will mean anything to someone a long time away
There’s no parallel, is there, between this little poem
And a little prince who could fly into the stars
By leaving the weight of his body behind
This little poem is already weightless, but here is the irony
Why can’t it fly like a myth around the night sky, like beautiful and free
Must you always lose something to gain:
Eye for an eye, flesh for my flesh, wood for a little boy’s soul, heart for stone
What can you trade in when
There’s nothing
oh yeah, i love jade's video too. so don't think i've forgotten it, it was brilliant. (especially the "poetry isn't impossible" part)
Agreed--Jade's piece was so amazing that no one wanted to show theirs afterwards! : )
thanks for posting the text, aurora - i love it even more now that i can read along! beautiful, beautiful work, with and without the video.
thank you very much
Aurora Meyer
May 6, 2010 at 10:13 AM