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.
Dying
I.
The look on his face
Is sad
determination.
He seems to know grace
And to be done with
procrastination.
II.
His has learned, I think,
How to die
Well
He is not going to blink,
And he has no stories to
Tell.
III
Where did he learn to be so strong?
His look is a
call.
It isn’t long
Before he jumps or fakes a
Fall.
IV
You can see a kind of homing
In the eyes that look
Ahead
He learned this was coming
From what he had done and what he had
Read.
V
He carried his courage with
A smile and a laugh for those he
Loved
Meaning lay not in myth
But in his own hand floating
Above.
VI
Empty.