Recently, I spent 2 weeks immersing myself in a poetry course at Vanderbilt University. During my time there, I was able to learn more about the art of poetry, and overall how to be a better writer. Below are 3 of my favorite poems selected from a larger chapbook I created and finalized during the class.
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Resonance
Birds singing their song to your soul
Into the endless cave where
time moves differently
Led to the ray of light in the empty field
where the red tulip lies alone
Forever awaiting its summer bloom
Like a four leaf clover
Found by chance in a dream
realized as imagination expands
From the youth of the sun
Reaching out its finger to yours
The tulip stays eternally young
Hope in Denial
The parched flowers waiting
for the rain that will never fall
From those stubborn clouds above
Burnt to a raisin by the sun
Denied of its oasis
Slowly in despair
They shrivel back to a seed
The Day Will Come
The music runs deep through your blood
It flows so smoothly
It ticks like a broken clock
Crawling inside your skin
8,000 ants within
But the ants all die
The indestructible spirit running
Through your fragile body
It killed them all
The spirit that wakes you up at sunrise
The spirit that dies when the sun sets for the last time
It’s a tragedy
That life is a chocolate
For eventually the orchestra stops conducting
The ants stop colonizing
The clock stops ticking
And you near the last bite
Of your final piece of chocolate
So sweet
So bitter
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