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.
A Bed Made of Thorns
Give me black skies in the summer
Give me several lifetimes of endless winters
Let fire fall from the sky like rain
Let it consume me with unashamed glee
Let me walk barefeet on the sands
of the Lut desert in July
Accept my barter for a bed
Made of the thorns of roses
I'll take anything else
In exchange for this anguish
Hope?
Hope cannot pull me out
From the depths of my darkness despair
For I have lost
My childhood stuffed pet
Cow-cow