POEM STARTER
Write a blank verse poem on a topic that's important to you.
Blank verse poetry doesn't rhyme, but has a very strict structure which builds a melody through rhythm. (One way to create this is to structure each line with the same amount of syllables, and the same syllabic stresses, like you might if you were writing the verses of a song.)
A Room Without A View
A room without a view
A dark room where winter is endless
in my own heart
Sumptuously tragic
Sumptuously alone
Feelings almost extinguished
but still there
This weariness in the face of incomprehension
Of life, of love, of death
The uncertainty of the present
and yet very present
A dark room, wet with tears
Crying combined with all the seasons of my life
The story does not end like this
This was only the beginning
Many people have been locked up
Drowned in suffering
For me, this was not the case,
A door to life
Towards infinity and answers to unasked questions
I trade my darkness for hope
The dawn of a life and of a previously unknown love that I was waiting for in this dark room and that is now here.
