New Poem

Today in poetry we learned about Sestina poems where a poet uses the same words at the end of a line in various patterns through-out the poem. I thought I'd take a swing at it and I think it turned out pretty cool. To write something like this you have to keep circling around with the same topics but it still has to tell some sort of story and make sense. They say you should write what you know so I did. Here it is. Also, I should mention that I am currently reading Virgina Woolfe (a type of feminist) so that had a minor impact on the theme. ;)

Education 3-30-10

Sometimes I tire of going to school
Spending days, hours, wasting my time
Reading about feminists and their books
Scribbling down essay after essay
When I’d rather use beautiful words
And spend hours alone just writing.

All day I’d sit comfortably and write
Under some tree instead of in school
And use my own wonderful words
To make every second of my time
More important than some essay
About a feminist’s angry book.

One day I hope to publish a book
So every thought I carefully write
Practicing grammar in my essays
While I spend days, hours, in school
Patiently abiding my precious time
And drawing on paper magical words.

Emotion marked with passionate words
Could form an educational book
That would hold still all of time
So I carefully scratch and write
About the importance of schools
For yet another English class essay.

The necessity of all kinds of essays
Is to learn about many types of words –
While studying studiously in school –
And the variety of uses in books,
So women have the ability to write
Since they are educated about their time.

Countless hours and amounts of time
Are taken to make perfect an essay –
Considered the best piece of writing,
The spectacular use of intelligent words –
In hopes it will someday become a book
And teach women everything in school.