POEM STARTER
Title your poem after someone you have felt profoundly influenced by in your life.
It doesn’t have to be someone you know personally, but the poem should reflect why this person is important to you, even if it is not directly about them.
John Lennon’s Glasses
This is how I left the war.
This is how I turned the words
How I couldn’t grow my hair
How I couldn’t free the birds.
Here is where I start to hide.
Here is where I closed my eyes
How I couldn’t hold your hand.
How I couldn’t loosen ties.
That was how I saw my life.
That was how I faced the day.
In the towns where I was born
In the friends I turned away.
This is how I leave the years.
This is where I fall.
Cracked and speckled, National Health.
Pictured on a wall.
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