Poetry Month Celebration!

In honor of Poetry Month, I thought I would share a couple of the poems that I wrote for my school poetry contest! We had to write all kinds of different styles for this, so it was an interesting experiment. I generally write prose, but here's my attempt at something a little different.

Sinking Through Time

Slowly she sinks, slipping into the sands of time

She shouldn't sink, even so slowly, but she does

"Stop!" she screams to her sinking soul

She shan't see the sadness that sinks her soul

She shall search silently for why

She sinks so far away so easily forgotten

Unanswered Questions

It is a dim path everyone is wandering

Often it leaves them pondering

The questions one never got to ask

Discovering the answer becomes the task

But one cannot answer for someone silent

It seems that the universe is much too defiant

To fill the questions that go unanswered 

Really, the outcome is terribly substandard

So to the sky you can cry

Why didn't they ever say goodbye

Fearless

Singing in the wind

Smiling as she flies free 

She is fearless

Silence

Silence is deeper

Than an ocean of blue tides

Crashing on the coast

Flying

Life won't pass me by

Like a free bird in the sky

For I will fly high

Leaves in the Trees

Sweeping in the breeze

Like a lost, dry crumpled leaf

Carried to new worlds

Ode to Imagination

Places, spaces, new ways to be found

Highways and skyways to the open bounds

An escape plan in a closed world

Giving freedom to anyone who can close their eyes

An endless world to speculate and create

No limits or fences to hold it in

And what would the world be without it there to pretend

Rather dreary and grey, I would presume

The entity that brings words to fill my paper, 

printed letters to bring worlds to page and binding, 

and music to my ears

There is no greater prize in my eyes.

If you are wondering, the first poem is alliteration, the second is couplet, the next four are all haikus, and the last is an ode. I hope you had as much fun reading them as I did writing them, and please remember that all intellectual property is copyrighted. I would love to hear what you think (either by email or comment), but please do not republish or reproduce any of this article without consent.