The Works of Brynne Marin

"To write a poem is to hide from your fears. Sure, your words are flowered and fluffed with silly similes and melodic metaphors... But for what? Why not write out your thoughts in a plain, full-lined manner? (As any fair man might do.) Because you are afraid! You hide behind your rhyming rhetoric and ambiguous alliteration because you fear that they will disagree! You make them strip away your babbling bark so that only your most dedicated and trustworthy readers will know your secrets! Well, hear me now, and hear me well, I disdain your methods and spit on your "pieces of art" and until the day the grim reaper takes me like a stand of wheat I will always hate poetry ."

Once thought I life be dark shades of shadow; Pondering a bane abhorring color, But whisk’d, I stood to tip on a plateau, Life rocked and tilt’d me; I lacked valor, I fell; falling, I glimpsed a world too sweet, One taste: mind crashed huge waves of confusion, Sight bore thou gleaming in quaint waves of heat; Thy hair a rainbow: surely delusion? And suddenly the grey tint fled my view, Lovely as lights flash on thy crystal gaze, My world held splashes of color anew, I perepend’d it a dream shroud in haze, Until I glanced at thee once more, I see, I have fallen still for the heart of thee.

The Conquests of the Spanish Conquistadors: For the Greater Good? In 1492, the renowned explorer, Christopher Columbus, reached the sandy shore of Hispaniola and kick-started the great Era of Exploration encouraging more Spanish explorers to voyage to the Americas. These explorers, dubbed conquistadors , journeyed to four parts of the Americas: the Caribbean Islands, Central America, the Mainland, and finally, northwestern South America. Although they weren’t always the kindest conquerors, their accomplishments were commonly for the greater good. First, the Spanish routes to the Americas first directed the conquistadors to the Caribbean Islands. The conquistadors, like Columbus, had many reasons to travel there, such as for the attainment of gold, slaves, and fame, and the mere call of curiosity. All of these hopes were achieved, and the settlements they established were the beginning of settlements soon to cover half of the Americas. Although their colonization of these islands was...

"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" - A Poem Based on the Movie (Based on the Play) Movie (and Play) Directed and Written by Tom Stoppard Poem by Brynne Mittleider The flip of a coin: an endless pattern of heads Never to show tails it may seem The water spirals in an endless cycle, A whirlpool at the start? While beyond is a journey The storytellers met The foretelling foretold The conflict beginning to rise The waves gain force Power has risen! Discoveries are made in the distance Important, though not does it seem That much heed is paid from the skeptic To the discoverer… Further on the horizon the skeptic and the discoverer search Until- He is found! He is watched! He is questioned… Does the placement of weight on this man’s shoulders mean he must be made dead? His wonders… His sorrows… His common question: to be or not to be? A voyage across waters has begun With the discoverer and the skeptic labelled as esc...