POEM STARTER

Submitted by Maranda Quinn

Write a poem from the perspective of someone who obviously hates — or is just extremely bad at — poetry.

Try to consider why someone may feel pressured to write a poem. Love? A school project?

Lack Of Understanding

Poetry

Drama

I never understood why people like poems

Or how they see what they claim to see through them

Bittersweet words and flowery messages

Over complicated analogies of bare bone skeletons

Writers with feelings they can’t seem to process

So they write it all down for the world to see

Well the world seems to understand their stresses

So tell me, why is it that the world doesn’t include me?

Comments 1

Cats against Schrödinger

6 months ago

Good pacing. The lines/stanzas give good form. The voice is heard best while reading aloud. It’s a regular speaking voice. It sounds like a legit critique of poetry.