1. Common Elements
By Fern
picture By aussiegall

2. Wind
Whistling past your ears
Telling you something you don’t know
Knocking at your window
Crunching the leaves at your front door
Filling lies before your eyes
Carrying feelings of hate and war
Silent or noisy
Buffets of air
One clan can have two sides to bare
By TopTechWriter.US

3. Reflection
Tool: heart
Why the idea: Because its one of the elements
Was it easy or hard?: It was pretty hard because I was not very
interested in the subject
Revision: I think I could have made it rhyme a little more

4. Fire
Fire is sharp
Fire has temper
Try hard if you want a mentor
Fire is fluid
Fire is lasting
Do you even feel the blasting
Fire burns
Fire hurts
You never know where it can lurk
Fire is light
Fire is Dark By ViaMoi
Fire lights heat in the middle of the hearth

5. Reflection
Tool: heart
Why this idea?: Because its one of the elements
Hard or Easy: I think it was not too hard and not too easy
because it was an easy topic but it was hard to rhyme
Revision: I think I could have made it a little longer

6. Earth
Hard and Grieving
A place we call earth
What we step on
We mention to Church
Hard and Grieving
Is also evil
Many believe
You can saw it with a chisel

7. Reflection
Tool: Heart
Why this idea?: Because its one of the four elements
Hard or easy: I think this was the hardest of all the poems
because there was not very much to write about earth
Revision: I wanted to make it longer but I didn’t find anything else to fit it

8. Water
Running wild
And forever free
Is dreamer
To you and me
A clear minded
One of a kind
Maybe heavy
In its own times
Emotional and Empathetic
May follow its own path
Through Success
And Creativity

9. Reflection
Tool: Heart
Why this idea: Because its one of the elements
Hard or easy: It was pretty easy because I already had a source to take from
Revision: I think I could have made it rhyme a little more

10. Death
When the body lies flat
When your blood starts to rust
When your beat softens
When your veins creak and crumble
When your eyes close and stay
You can no longer move
Your breath escapes your grasp
Your hands twitch and shiver
Your body rots and decays
Waiting and waiting... By JKönig
Your time is right
Your soul leaves
Your heart dies
Your brain rots
In a blink you are no longer there...

11. Reflection
Tool: Heart
Why this idea: I just wanted to add it because its one of my favorite subject
Hard or easy: I think it was easy because I already planned it two years ago
Revision: I think I could have made it more descriptive

12. Common Elements Reflection
Why did you choose this theme?: I chose this theme
because I love to describe things and objects
Thought of myself as a poet: I think I like serious
rhyming poems than funny and silly poems
Comments: I think I did a not too bad job on this anthology

13. The End
Picture By jsmoral