Poem #1
I wrote this poem a while ago, it's a rather short one. For some reason, I feel it deserves an explaination, because there's more to it that meets the eye. I want to leave that up to the reader, so I'm putting my notes under a cut, just in case you want to make up your own mind first and then possibly see if it concurs with my intention. Of course, in interpreting, you might open my eyes to something I did not see before.
gentleman,
give me your ear
and i'll paint it
sparkling colors
call it a portrait
post it on e-bay
pay the highest bid
and keep it to myself.
Well, I wrote this poem when I saw someone's ear. Last year during a Shakespeare competition, my speech was from Julius Caesar, which is where the allusion in the title and first line comes from (Mark Antony's speech, "...friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears..." Secondly, I've noticed that many of my poems incorporate imagery specific to our generation; "e-bay" in this poem, for example. I intended to contrast the beginning with the end (a reference to the past, a reference to the present). In addition, "give me your ear" is also an allusion to van Gogh, as is the reference to painting it "sparkling colors" (the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist attempts to capture light on canvas). And I don't know if any of you can see it, but it is a love poem. An odd way of writing one, perhaps. But I've never been conventional.
gentleman,
give me your ear
and i'll paint it
sparkling colors
call it a portrait
post it on e-bay
pay the highest bid
and keep it to myself.
Well, I wrote this poem when I saw someone's ear. Last year during a Shakespeare competition, my speech was from Julius Caesar, which is where the allusion in the title and first line comes from (Mark Antony's speech, "...friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears..." Secondly, I've noticed that many of my poems incorporate imagery specific to our generation; "e-bay" in this poem, for example. I intended to contrast the beginning with the end (a reference to the past, a reference to the present). In addition, "give me your ear" is also an allusion to van Gogh, as is the reference to painting it "sparkling colors" (the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist attempts to capture light on canvas). And I don't know if any of you can see it, but it is a love poem. An odd way of writing one, perhaps. But I've never been conventional.