6 Original Poems

My creative writing class is almost worthy of calling life changing. I had forgotten about the world that writing takes you into. The world of words that are more than words, whose words mean different things to everyone who reads them, whose words change and challenge minds and inspire new thoughts and ideas, whose words turn thoughts and ideas into ambition and dreams. It's a world you've never been to if you've never poured out your heart and soul onto a piece of paper or into a keyboard.

We just finished our poetry unit in the creative writing class, where we wrote six different poems. I'm going to pretend that I'm 100% confident in every word that spilled out of my mind onto the page, and just share all six of them with you.

Number ONE:

The first poem I wrote is an ekphrasis, or a description of a work of art, in this case a painting, in the form of a poem or literary passage. I looked at this image below, by Mary Cassatt, and wrote a poem based on the story I imagined when I examined the portrait.

The Depth of Beauty

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IhN6dutNd1dKmr4tfSH3XfJJISl-leTGmsR3NKVcp9g/edit?usp=sharing

Number TWO:

The second poem I wrote is definitely my favorite of all, simply because I love the style and flow of this type of poem. It's called a Villanelle, which is written with a very specific rhyme scheme and order of the lines. The first and third line in the first stanza are repeated several times throughout the poem. This one represents how people are so helpless and don't rely on their faith in God to carry them over the mountain of their struggles, even though he is right there waiting to be called upon.

The Mighty One Waits

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12ZFufWJXMhj...sp=sharing 

Number THREE:

The third poem is my free verse, which means there is no specific rules or rhyme scheme to follow. My favorite poems are the ones that flow without having to rhyme, because they usually carry a deeper message and use more figurative language. This poem is full of oxymorons, and before you claim that they don't make sense, scan your mind to find a possible relation between the line and your life. You may have to get really creative and poetic to uncover the illustrative message in disguise.

Flawless Misery

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R7o2hj4ZklqPoNOQsVNCU-03xenpIEBtV2DkHYH3zu8/edit?usp=sharing


Number FOUR:

This fourth poem is actually a song. It's the first song I've ever written, and I've matched it up to some chords on my guitar. It's not very good, at least I don't think so, but I think it's decent for my first go at songwriting. :)

I Need You to Know

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YgMNZbjRYdrTQ4flyL8Sc77C4J-zsay5m4zoApo2j6k/edit?usp=sharing


Number FIVE:

Number five is a haiku- definitely not my favorite type of poem, to write nor to read, so I made it in about 3 minutes and went on with my live. It's only three lines, there's no rhyme scheme, and you'll rarely see a haiku that actually appears to make sense. Since it'd so short, I'm just going to paste it below right onto the blog.

Destroyed

Severed and beaten,
from light to darkness it fades,
a mind now crumbling to ashes.

Number SIX:

Last but not least, this is my Shakespearean sonnet. Oh, the good old sonnet... 14 lines, rhyme scheme A B A B C D C D E F E F G G (in human terminology- every other line rhymes, and then the last two rhyme), all written in this annoying thing called iambic pentameter that I couldn't begin to try to explain, but if you've gone through a high school English or literature course, you'll know what I'm talking about. This sonnet is simply about the change of season, and the Fall spirit that permeates through the air at this time of year.

The Rise of Autumn

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-Fm3_tuDdAX2b-ydKC-bxGIeRk85jdoZYHk4_rXOd8Y/edit?usp=sharing


I hope you enjoyed my poems and they were too terribly awful. I can post all my assignments from my creative writing course throughout the year, if anyone would be interested. Let me know in the comments what you thought!