Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo

This poem was about anything and everything that happens at the kitchen table. From eating to gossiping, all that goes on happens when a group of people are enjoying themselves, after a long days work. In a way, its like the author is saying that this table has gone through so many different moments and will continue to do so in the future. "This table has been a house in the rain and an umbrella in the sun." The speaker is trying to say that no matter what the situation is, the table will always be used in many ways.

Ballad by Sonia Sanchez

In this poem, I thought that the speaker was explaining how herself was too old to learn about love so there was no point in thinking about it and such like that while the person she speaks of is too young to even mention the meaning of love. There was a moment where the speaker knew what love was and what it was about and she also experienced it herself, but as she got older, she lost her skill and knowledge of it. She remembered all that went with the memory of love that she experienced. The "rain", "grass" and "stone" was like the nature of love, she had memories for each and every one of those things.

Makeup on Empty Space by Anne Waldman

I actually really liked this poem, I pictured all of the color she used and applied it to what made it seem like she was painting. In every empty space, she just seemed to have add things here and there so that the space is now used up in every inch. It just seemed like she put the most random things together and next to each other, etc. She was able to stuff, jam, pack, rebuild everything and anything and put them all together. She would take colors out of everything and created an image for the empty space that was there. It was as if she had amazing abilities and was able to do anything.

Round About Midnight by Bob Kaufman

The speaker seems to live in a place where jazz music is number one with the radio in hand and a lady that is into jazz as well. The more you read, the more the speaker shows the reader that they are in a "jazz" moment where they are surrounded by the jazz melody, a girl that is the kind that loves jazz as much as the speaker does, the "piano laughter" which may also represent people all around the area playing the piano that has a jazz melody to it, while laughing at the lyrics they create, as well as the "soft blue voices" that is heard throughout the air. It seems like every night there is always a "jazz mood" in the air, around the time of 12 midnight.

Harlem By Langston Hughes

This poem seems like it is able a person who has had a dream but has deferred it....meaning they postponed or delayed it for another time in which they will have their dreams come true and be reality. So then they questioned themselves as to what would happen if the dream is deferred, though at the end when the speaker asks "Or does it explode?" it shows that the word "Deferred" not only means "To postpone, to delay" but it also means "to exempt temporarily from induction into military service." It could relate to the military coming in on the speaker and taking everything away so that the dream will not take place, but instead it will "explode."

Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy

I actually liked this poem alot. The title of it, described the girl in the poem alot, from childhood to death. When she was born, she was probably a beautiful baby and got introduced to barbie dolls, something that she didnt know she'd try and look like in the future. She definitely got made fun of after puberty and got poked fun at for her nose and her legs. She was a completely normal person until she took action and destroyed herself by having surgery on her legs and nose. I really liked this poem because it shows that this girl had to try so hard to fit in, it shows that some girls are very self-conscious of their bodys and will do anything to look like a beautiful person, hence why the title is "Barbie Doll." Any girl would kill to look like one of those plastic dolls.

Bird With Two Right Wings by lawrence Ferlinghetti

I think that this poem is about having to do with the Air Force, of course, and having to do with America training for combat, i guess, or being in the middle of the war. I am not entirely sure what was going on in the poem; I couldnt really picture what was going on because there wasnt much imagery going on. It seems as if the poem is describing the logo on captain's cap as a donkey, elephant, and donkephant. I'm not entirely sure what has happened in that part of the poem but i do know that towards the end of the poem, i pictured people sitting down in the passenger seats, listening to what is going on in the air.