Tell me, what do these faces make you feel? Or think?
Read More: The Faces of Romsey Cathedral
At Peace
My sister thought that she should try to write a poem out of thin air for fun, and I wrote it down as she did. Once she finished she said, “April, writing is kind of easy.” I can’t argue with that since the poem she wrote is actually quite good. We then talked about how in GCSE English Lit, we had to analyse poems and the meanings of the words and phrases used in the poems, when in reality you can write a seemingly meaningful poem without it actually having any significant meaning. Clever, isn’t it?
And so, here is her finished poem ‘At Peace’:
At peace
with the hourglass,
I sit
I watch
timeless it seems.
Alas,
within each grain
lies an untold tale,
yet the tranquility
empowers the soul.
Like a flame
snapped away
by a wisp,
time is less.
You sit,
you watch.
Humble is the touch
as you embrace
each moment
the hourglass
presents,
as the grains
of eternity
unfold.
Imagine you were a GCSE English Lit student, how would you analyse this poem?
Endlessly
My soul found you and said, “you’re the one”
you are all I want
we are one
I get lost in your blue eyes
endlessly
it was always you
I will tell you every day that you’re my world
let me be your love song
every time I’m with you, I fall deeper
in love
Challenge: Write a series of 10 poems going from 1 to 10 words in each poem. Reorder.
IntroToPoetry: Round-Up
This is my round up of all 2-3 times I have participated in the Blogging U course “Intro to Poetry”. I think as time went on I got a little more inventive with the interpretation, and I hope I got a little bit better, but you can judge that for yourselves. Some of them were quite difficult, and some were a bit easier. But I’m glad I participated in this challenge multiple times because I just love writing poetry. I hope you like reading them as much as I liked writing them! Here they all are:
Water
Face
Friend
Journey
Imperfect
Screen
Flavour
Pleasure
Landscape
Future
