Saturday, August 06, 2005

Dut, Da, Da, Da! Charge!

I'm going to write a poem and guess what?
This is it.
However, this poem, as I call it, will be...different.
(Uh oh!)
I'm not going to avoid ugly sounding words like...
snorkel!
belch!
and knuckle hair!
(Oh,my God!)
I'm going to end one of the lines with the unrhyming word...
orange.
(How awful!)
Everyone is happy!!!! How about that?
No meter am I showing, if you have noticed...
iambic, diambic, or pentameter.
none.
If you like, I might even point out that no one has
died,
been beaten,
raped,
heart broken,
alone,
in love,
in lust,
or has had sex.
So, it is probably being asked...
What is your point...
This is poetry isn't it?
Well, maybe that's the point.
I think, I'll end in the middle of a...

Pamela Karr - 10th Grade

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