POEM STARTER

submitted by The Teen Writer

Write an elegy centered around the following words:

Hope

Darkness

Rose

An elegy is a poem that reflects upon death or mourning. They commonly have themes of sorrow and loss, but also explore redemption and consolation.

Morning Journal

Pink fabric enrobed

Blue lines pages

Marked with a rose colored satin ribbon


Yellow legal pads

Erupting with tight cursive arcs

Of the characters in her head


Brown skinned girl bent over a book

Sheltered in her closet

Escaping into technicolor worlds

To world building in shades of her own


Hope rose from darkness


But

Little girls grow up

Big dreams overshadowed, left fallow


Buried

Beneath obligations and a sink of dirty dishes

Bright roots awaken


Cardinal clad

Gray lined pages

Bursting within a tight elastic band


From darkness, hope rose

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