How to Self-Publish Your Poem

   Yes, indeed, today, I am here to present  you my ways of self-publishing my poems. This project actually requires a trememdous amount of brainstorming as well as effort and time. Thanks to Ms. K that we can have this opportunity to show our own poem to the public and to experience the joy of receiving other's recognition.

This is the video i made, hope you will enjoy it! :)

These are the poems I published...

Silence

-E.C.

I was born of a silence,

Between the sea and the olive tree,

Where roaring waves are

Like whispering birds;

Where shattered thoughts are

Like nfinished books;

Where my soul rests upon

A bed of dead leaves.

I was born of a silence.





You Deserve
-E.C.

You deserve love letters with roses attached

You deserve birthday wishes every day

You deserve ice cream sundaes at 3 am 

You deserve the smell of rain splashing on you

You deserve whispers through your ears

You deserve warm hugs after a long day

You deserve smiles from anyone

You deserve to be reminded how beautiful you are

Troubled Soul

-E.C.

Chasing lights

Morning tea

Lost in the thoughts

Silence,

Warmth,

Comfort,

Here in the moment

The chasm of an inadequate void filled with despondency

A weary heart and a troubled soul

 

Silence

Silence

-E.C.

I was born of a silence,

Between the sea and the olive tree,

Where roaring waves are

Like whispering birds;

Where shattered thoughts are

Like nfinished books;

Where my soul rests upon

A bed of dead leaves.

I was born of a silence.

Photo Credit @E.C.

Troubled Soul

Troubled Soul

-E.C.

Chasing lights

Morning tea

Lost in the thoughts

Silence,

Warmth,

Comfort,

Here in the moment

The chasm of an inadequate void filled with despondency

A weary heart and a troubled soul

Photo Credit E.C.

Stronger

Stronger

-E.C.

What doesn’t 

Kill you makes 

You stronger

Unless 

During the 

Process of 

Nearly Killing 

You

It somehow made

You weaker

Static Shocks

<Poem writing in the style of Michael Ondaatje' "Sweet Like a Crow">

Your hands feel like a bullet fired from a pistol

penetrating my chest

Like stepping on shattered galsses with bare feet

Like the wrinkly skin of a pug

Like a long piece of sandpaper, like someone smashing a guitare 

that is out of tune, like a crumpled piece of paper,

A forgotton scar from the time you fell over,

A burnt piece of bread, 

A dead fish washed onto the shore.

Like dusty old pages of a book,

Like piercings on the tongue,

Like being hit by hails in the summer,

An expiered milk, the cliffhanger from 

An episode you've been waiting forever

Like trying to pull off a wedding ring

Like the dissonant sound from an unskilled choir,

A snake's shed skin, like a hundred musqitos 

buzzing around you, like someone calling 

you in the middle of the night,

The pain when pumping onto a wall,

A sharp sting from a bumblebee,

The touch of thorns when pulling a rose off hastily

Like nails scrtacthed across a chalkboard

Like the jumpscares your friend sent you for amusement

Like poems that overuse the word "like"

Like the tangled earphones that

someone gave up trying to untangle them, 

Like the fat needles the nurse failed to inject it correctly

Like a sudden cramp on your leg 

Like the numbness from a cold shower 

Like the static shock you feel from someone you don't know 

when pushing through a crowd. 

A Mother's Frying Pan

A Mother's Frying Pan

<Poems writing in the style of William Carols Williams>

So much 

depends upon

A mother's 

frying pan

Stained by 

the smell of an overcooked egg

Left on top of 

the forgotten stove

:)

Cactis afternoon with strawberry slusshhy

🌵

SELFIE SHOUTOUT

What if we stopped making negative comments about ourselves?
What if we start embrace our imperfections and discover things that had been blinded by our negativities?
Post a picture or selfie of yourself on instagram with saying something you like about yourself, it could be physical appearance or your personality. After that, please put hashtag #SELFHEARTSELF or simply comment hashtag under one of your picture to show your support.

REMEMBER TO HASHTAG #SELFHEARTSELF AND STAY POSITIVE :)

My Winterbreak Catchup

Pshh, it's been such a long time since I'm back on Blogger. Too many things happenning recently that kept me busy. 

During the winter break, me and my family went to Yellowknife to watch aurora and also enjoyed tons of fun acitivities on ice. Maybe the best way to spend your New Year's Eve is to be under a sky of green light mixed with faint pink with your family or maybe friends. It was freezing at Yellowknife and it was like approximately minus 28 degree. We had to rant super thick jackets and boots but even with that it was still so cold that frost started to form on your eyelashes the minute you go outside. We had to wait for 4 hours full to see aurora and by the time we saw it, it was already 2 a.m. in the morning.

Fishing on icee. It took me forever to break the ice since it was so thick and we just used a huge net to catch the fish. Because it was cold for the fish to move, it was very easy for us to catch tons of fishies. 

Overall it was a very fun experience and I think everyone needs to see aurora at least once in their lifetime :)))))

Photos taken by @_1923

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone,

hope you all have a wonderful holiday!

My Dog

My Dog 

Barking all day long

Mom's little arrogant spy

I still love you so

-"Cooper"

Cold

Cold

Outside, the wind

Tearing the trees;

Dark comes into the room

Like a stranger

And we are embraced

By the endless loneliness

- @LizzieCacti

“All About The Grades”

Parody of "All About That Bass" by Meghan Trainor 

-lIZZIE CACTIC

Because you know

I'm all about the grades

'Bout the grades, no failing

I'm all about the grades

'Bout the grades, no failing

I'm all about the grades

'Bout the grades, no failing

I'm all about that grades

'Bout that graaaades

Yeah, it's pretty clear, I’m failing English

But I can shake it, shake it

Like I'm supposed to do

'Cause I got that S. A. T. that all the Asian ace

And all the straight A’s in all the major subjects

I see them working hard copying from others

We know that stuff ain't right

C'mon now, make it stop

If you got ethic, ethic, just don’t do that

'Cause every subject you can ace it

If you work hard and don’t stop

Yeah, my mama she told me don't worry about your grades

She says, "Grades don’t define your future successfulness."

You know I won't be no more of competitive cheaters

So if that’s what we are into then go ahead and fail with me

Because you know

I'm all about the grades

'Bout the grades, no failing

I'm all about the grades

'Bout the grades, no failing

I'm all about the grades

'Bout the grades, no failing

I'm all about that grades

'Bout that grades

Hey!

I'm bringing average back

Go ahead and tell them smarty people that

No, I’m not kidding, I know you think I’m dumb

But I'm here to tell ya

Every subject I will ace it from the bottom to the top

Yeah, my mama she told me don't worry about your grades

She says, "Grades don’t define your future successfulness."

You know I won't be no more of competitive cheaters

So if that’s what we are into then go ahead and fail with me

Because you know

I'm all about the grades

'Bout the grades, no failing

I'm all about the grades

'Bout the grades, no failing

I'm all about the grades

'Bout the grades, no failing

I'm all about that grades

'Bout that grades

Hey you know

Grades Are All that Matters

Fall

<November 26.2014>

A little song for the autumn theme.

Enjoy :)

Falling Stars -Rainer Maria Rilke

Falling Stars

 Do you remember still 

the falling stars

that like swift horses 

through the heavens raced

and suddenly leaped 

across the hurdles of our wishes 

do you recall? 

And we did make so many! 

For there were countless numbers of stars: 

each time we looked above 

we were astounded 

by the swiftness of their daring play,

while in our hearts 

we felt safe and secure

watching 

these brilliant bodies  disintegrate,

knowing somehow we had survived their fall.

― Rainer Maria Rilke

Picture credit to @LizzieCacti

Trees

 “From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”

-Edvard Munch

<November 21,2014>

Picture credit to @simonlarsen

The Matchstick Man

Midnight Edit

"The Matchstick Man"

by @LizzieCacti

The Metaphors

A poem based on The Metaphor by Budge Wilson

The first metaphor I wrote

With excitement and a little fear for taking a peek of literature 

That

The absence of feeling echoed in the empty corridors 

The ostensibly impeccable interier 

But an undesirable perfection

In dedication to a place called home. 

The second metaphor I wrote

With respect but also fear

That

The indifferent presence 

Bitterly depicted 

The unapproachable love and care

of my one and only mother

The last metaphor I wrote

With sorrows and numbness of tears

That

The torned-apart regrets with 

The incomplete metaphors and

The gratitude and acknowledgement that has not yet shown

And the final farewell that never took place 

All hindered by the fear of judgements

This poem

In remembrance of

Ms. Hancock

Hollyhocks, Can You Hear Me

A poetic response to "The sound of the Hollyhocks" by H. Garner 

Hollyhocks,

Can you hear me?

My abondoned soul,

Penetrated by her broken vows .

Hollyhocks,

Can you hear me?

My desperation

To be reborn 

To be free

Hollyhocks,

Can you hear me?

My ambiguous fate

In the clutches of

"the Bitch of Belsen"

It was never my own

Hollyhocks,

Can you hear me?

My tears and sorrow

Has no cure

since the day

She went away

Hollyhocks,

Tell me how,

Tell me where,

The way back home.

Hollyhocks,

My last goodbye.

My final relief.

I'm finally home.

 Taken by @LizzieCacti

How to Edit Cool Photos On iPhone

       If you think that being a good photograher only requires a professional, might as well expensive camera, a breathtaking view, and the right time, then you're probably wrong. Photo editing can be very important whether for a photographer or just for normal photo takers. In fact, photo editing can make a big difference on your photo even if you aren't a professional or you don't own a high resolution camera. It can be very useful for the selfie lovers too!
      Here are some of the pictures I took using only an iPhone and of course, with special editings using some photography apps.

     These are some of the apps that i used for photo-editing the pictures above.

This app is the ensential photo editor for any kind of photo. It can turn very ordinary pictures into those ones you've only seen it on magazines.  Vsco Camera contains great varity of filters and other editings.

This app is used generally for photo collage and special lighting or exposure effects.

This app is a very interesting and fancy blender that only blends two photos together partially yet using very smooth transition.






This app requires payment in order to download it but it is definately worth it if you want to create perfect cropping.





No. 1

The making of this picture of the house with half in balck and white and another half in full colours involved two apps listed above: Vsco Camera & Mixar.

1) First, I opened Vsco Cam and inserted the origional pictur of the house. 

2) Next, I used two differet filters to create two different style of the house, in this case, I used filter LV1 to enhence the origional colour and for another one I used filter LV2 to create black&white effect. 

 

  3) After saving both photos to my camera roll, I then opened Mixar app. You will open up to the following page. From here you could insert the two photos you just saved by clicking the two circles at the bottom.

   4) By clicking the clock-like thing at the bottom right corner, you can adjust the specific part of the picture that you would like to be blended.

No. 2

The picture of the Fiji water with a black and white backgrounded was made possible by using the Adobe Photoshop Mix & Picsart.

1) First of all, we need to create the background by using the collage function on Piscart.
2) Find two wallpaper-like picture, one completely white, another pure black.

3) Select collage-grid-squre, you will see the first grid with two rectangles in a squre.

4) Insert the plain black and white picture and adjust the border to 0. It will then create the speccial background. 

5) After you create the background, open the Adobe Photoshop Mix. Insert the background picture and the picture you want to cut out, in this case would be the Fiji water picture. 

6) After inserting both of your pictures, click the "cut out" selection on the bottom with a scissor sign. From here you could start cutting out the figure you desire. My suggestion would be try using the smart selection in which the system would autoatically detect the part of the picture you want to cut out. This will make everything much easier and faster.

7) This is what it looks like after you finish. Remember to save your picture to your camera roll after editing.

I hope my explanation would present you with a clearer understanding of how photo editing works and I hope after reading this, you would develope an interest in the art of photography. Feel free to leave any comments if you have any questions :)