A poem I'm working on
So we were given the assignment of writing a poem. Any poem. Any subject. Doesn't matter at all. This is what I've got:
The Prophecy
In my sex. ed. class
We had to write acrostic poems
About sex
And this was mine:
Sensual
Erotic
X-ray
My teacher, old and stodgy,
Unqualified for lectures
About sex,
Criticized my use of X-ray
For being entirely unrelated
Just out of college
I married a handsome man,
An X-ray technician
And my poetry found relevance
I tried to contact my sex. ed. teacher
To gloat over my prophetic acrostic,
But she had died
Years earlier
From a complication
With her experimental herpes medication
I don't think this is as deep as they are going to want the poetry to be, but I thought it was fun, and sometimes people need to read things just for fun. Just for entertainment. I hate it when writers miss that and make something meaningful but dreadful to read, a complete dirge of a poem. So anyway, there we go.
On a separate note, we just attacked Nellie (who was laying in her bed talking to the boyfriend) with Black Eyed Peas "My hump my hump my hump!" song. It was fun and poor Nellie will be scarred for some time to come.
The Prophecy
In my sex. ed. class
We had to write acrostic poems
About sex
And this was mine:
Sensual
Erotic
X-ray
My teacher, old and stodgy,
Unqualified for lectures
About sex,
Criticized my use of X-ray
For being entirely unrelated
Just out of college
I married a handsome man,
An X-ray technician
And my poetry found relevance
I tried to contact my sex. ed. teacher
To gloat over my prophetic acrostic,
But she had died
Years earlier
From a complication
With her experimental herpes medication
I don't think this is as deep as they are going to want the poetry to be, but I thought it was fun, and sometimes people need to read things just for fun. Just for entertainment. I hate it when writers miss that and make something meaningful but dreadful to read, a complete dirge of a poem. So anyway, there we go.
On a separate note, we just attacked Nellie (who was laying in her bed talking to the boyfriend) with Black Eyed Peas "My hump my hump my hump!" song. It was fun and poor Nellie will be scarred for some time to come.