My Choice: Tides of Man: Descent

Well this week's My Choice Blog is another music video. This time the video is Descent(from Destiny) by one of my favorite bands, Tides of Man. Now what I like about this particular song is that its lyrics are a poem with each stanza/verse beginning with one of the letters of the word Descent. I thought that was just so creative. I really do admire that type of ingenuity and cleverness. Here are the lyrics:

D: The Descent from Destiny
By a Dark Deed Done
Was Disclosed in Divination
Death of a Dead man's son
Deranged, Deprived Delivery
Darkened his Decor

E: Ever-loathsome, the Executor's Edict
Estranges he from himself
Evermore

S: So Soon the Service
Sealed his fated Strife
A Sacrifice Seduced
To Save his threatened life

C: And Cowardice nor Commerce
Could Call the Child to Cease
Thought the Cycle of Criminal Commissions
Could never Co-exist with peace
He Could Count only
On the Combustion of his Chamber
As he lay the Child to the floor

E: Ever-loathsome, the Executor's Edict
Estranges he from himself
Evermore

N: Never to Neglect this Night again
As Naught for Nuances extend
Innocuously Numbing him into Nullification

T: Terribly Taken by The Task That Transpired
Tonight a Tantalizing new Testament was acquired
Thundering upon his tormented heart
From Temptation and Treachery
His almighty Teachings Tore him apart



Hooray for alliteration!!

Just because I'm in a sharing mood, I'll share one of my poems that I have written.

Here it is:

Feel

by ~Michael Peak

Stars when you shine you know how I feel.
The fact of the matter is I'm not real.
Breaking illusions, my mirrors shatter.
Do I exist? Am I matter?
I'm strings.
If anything.
Vibrating the music of the soul.
Throughout all which is not whole.
But incomplete.
Near defeat.
Those who need to be lifted.
The broke, the destitute, the gifted.

Wind when you whip, you know how I feel.
When you whistle you distort all that is real.
All that's secure.
All that's endured.
Falls to their knees at the majesty of freedom.
Yet they do not draw away, you intrigue them.
They've not seen one like you, with such a presence and power.
They want to be like you, and yet they cower.
Away from such sights.
And away from such heights.
Because they can not reach them.
Yet, they feel as all of it is beneath them.

Fire when you burn, you know how I feel.
When you ravage the forest or city, you destroy all that's real.
No more security.
You can take their reality.
And make it insanity.
Do you do this for your vanity?
No you burn because it's your purpose.
It's the only reason for this.
This powerful eruption.
Of your corruption.
Of your sovereignty.
And while it doesn't bother me.
It disturbs me in a way.
To know you can't burn every day.
And while I think that you should.
All I know is that when you burn.
I'm feelin' good.

Where'd all the time go? (Mentor Meeting & Connections Blog)

So, this week has taught me a lot about time management and the ability to plan ahead, two things I have been seemingly running around high school without. Unfortunately I did not meet with my mentor this week, but it wasn't her fault. It was mine. I need to come up with a convenient time for both of us to meet but I haven't really taken the initiative to plan this out. Also, I haven't been giving enough time to my research paper, even though, ever since I've changed my research thesis I've been able to get a lot more work done.

SO, I was thinking, if I want my senior project to be a success, I'm going to need to learn how to manage time correctly. I need to learn how to plan things out and stick to them, which is something Mr. Abrams has been trying to teach us all along. I've got a lot on my plate, with quarterlys this week and a history research paper due Friday, but I need to learn how to manage all my work correctly and prepare properly for all the work coming my way.

Meeting with Flood (Sponsor visit #7)

Well, I was starting to think that my Senior Project had reached a screeching halt after Suessical had ended. I had no idea what Mr. Flood and I were going to be doing from now on, but luckily, Mr. Flood was prepared as always. I sat in my latest Mentor Meeting with Mrs. Trip and Mr. Flood eating deliciously decadent Ghiredelli chocolate bars and brainstorming when, Mr. Flood asked me what I was doing the next two weekends. Well I told him, this weekend I had to babysit, but next weekend I was free on Sunday, so then he suggested we go see "Romeo and Juliet" on Sunday at Rowan University.

So, we started planning that trip, and I got really excited, but we started to think that with the plethora of activities going on in the school there's got to be something I can participate in that will further my goals in Senior Project. Then we thought about Mrs Porter's Senior citizen dessert Broadway night, and the fact that Mrs. Trip needs to fill an hours worth of entertainment. So, they decided that I could also help with the planning for this.

Also, Mr. Flood and I finally got approval, so I'll be going to Rowan soon(maybe this week) to go sit in on an actual college theatre course! I'm really excited about that and I think that'll be one of the most enriching parts of Senior Project yet. I can't wait to go.

Before all of these plans were made, I was wondering what the world held in store for me in relation to senior project, but now I can see a bright future ahead of me, as far as Senior project is concerned, and I can't wait to face it.