POEM STARTER
Write a blank verse poem on a topic that's important to you.
Blank verse poetry doesn't rhyme, but has a very strict structure which builds a melody through rhythm. (One way to create this is to structure each line with the same amount of syllables, and the same syllabic stresses, like you might if you were writing the verses of a song.)
Museum Of Crumbling Statues
I work in a museum
A museum filled will crumbling statues
Statues still alive
Alive but returning to stone
Stone eyes that seem to know
To know who they are
They are lost in the past
The past filled with life
Life seems so slippery now
Now it’s hard to remember
To remember who they were
They were once free
Free to love their families
Families are fading in their minds
Minds that spill out memories
Memories that they live out every day
Every day I try to stop the crumbling
Crumbling that will never end
End the fear within their hearts
Hearts not made of marble
Marbles just a rock
Rock can’t feel their pain
Pain that stiffens until they die
That’s where I work
