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Tom Sawyer met a girl who wrote some verse
With lovely rhymes and meters oh so tight.
My teacher smirked. “The joke is that it’s worse
Than poems whose rhythm may not feel so right.
A poem’s subject shouldn’t be a fright
To make it dark. It should be from your heart.”
Most experts know that dark cannot beat light
Except in those who felt it from the start.
But even in my joy I make sad art…
I find what I write best is bittersweet.
Enforcing glee puts horse before the cart:
One’s art needs to be true to be complete.
No moment in our lives is joy OR sorrow;
Each one alone will bring its friend tomorrow.
With lovely rhymes and meters oh so tight.
My teacher smirked. “The joke is that it’s worse
Than poems whose rhythm may not feel so right.
A poem’s subject shouldn’t be a fright
To make it dark. It should be from your heart.”
Most experts know that dark cannot beat light
Except in those who felt it from the start.
But even in my joy I make sad art…
I find what I write best is bittersweet.
Enforcing glee puts horse before the cart:
One’s art needs to be true to be complete.
No moment in our lives is joy OR sorrow;
Each one alone will bring its friend tomorrow.
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Meter's not as tight as I'd like, but I'm reasonably happy with this for what it is.
~4themindandsoul recently engaged in a little meta by the title of "A Poem about Poems."
It made me think of a conversation I had with my American Lit teacher about Tom Sawyer, and then I wrote this.
Sorry dude.
~4themindandsoul recently engaged in a little meta by the title of "A Poem about Poems."
A Poem about PoemsToo many times,
when I read people's poetry,
They're filled with hate, resentment,
instead of joy and glee.
There are so many things,
That are utterly wonderful,
Flora, fauna, friends, love,
These things so cherishable.
Is there really this much saddness,
Contained within each person's heart?
Or are these poems just attempts,
At appearing clever and smart?
But alas, I may not,
Ever find out the answer to this,
But just try and go, to be happy,
This is my only wish.
It made me think of a conversation I had with my American Lit teacher about Tom Sawyer, and then I wrote this.
Sorry dude.
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Oh my win.