MY two Poem Response DUE 9/10/10

Frankie Pena

ENG 102

9/9/10

Response to “Immigration On Are Own Land” and “Compendium of Lost Objects”

The date was 9/8/10 a young blood fresh off the land of phoenix. Decided to read two poems that he could relate to they were “Immigration On Are Own Land” and “Compendium of Lost Objects”. After reading these two poems Frankie thought just how he can relate to these poems. Each one had something special that he felt a deep connection with.
Good afternoon everyone, I am Frankie, and after reading “Immigration On Are Own Land”. I could not ignore the connection there was between myself and the poem. In the poem the author (Jimmy Santiago Baca) describes how he looks at are world today. One section in the poem “We came here to get away from false promises, from dictators in our neighborhoods, who wore blue suits and broke our doors down when they wanted, arrested us when they felt like, swinging clubs and shooting guns as they pleased. But it’s no different here. It’s all concentrated. The doctors don’t care, our bodies decay, our minds deteriorate, we learn nothing of value. Our lives don’t get better, we go down quick"(Baca). This is exactly how things look sometimes especially with sheriff Joe Arpaio in phoenix. This man will shoot down anyone that tries to change their life. There are bad immigrants and there are good. They should spend more time on the drug trafficking and less on the immigrants who are here working. This is clearly a tenth of the crimes that go down and we need to focus on the rest that are tearing are dreams apart.
The next poem I read and had a connection with is “Compendium of Lost Objects”.
In the poem the author (Nicole Cooley) talks about a list full of objects that are lost. Here is a line in the poem that really caught my attention "or the pink-shuttered house on the streetcar line, where you were married. The connection in here is when the author looks at a house and it brings back old memories. This happens every time I look at the race it brings back the spot where I received my first kiss. The author clearly thinks a lot about anything and it brings back a good memory which is pretty awesome.
These two poems each have something special about them and because I could list every way I felt a connection there will further detail soon to come. Hopefully when time comes we all will be able to touch someone like these poems have touched us.
LINK: http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/