I always love it when students surprise me with an approach to an assignment that I didn't anticipate. When we wrote poems inspired by Linda Gregg's 2005 poem, "Whomever" I assumed most people would write about a person in their life. Marc chose to write about an animal.
The Lonely Stranger
You are not even human, except to your owner maybe.
I saw you again as I walked across the bridge.
You were lying down in your capacious cage.
Outside in the cold, all alone, dressed in black fur.
I bet you are warmer than I.
With the time passing by and the sky turning to black, I am hoping you will go inside, for it is also getting colder.
I’m glad you have someone to care for you, because others do not.
I think there is a kindness in you, although I am told to stay away,
Like the way bullies act tough to hide what they are really feeling inside.
Other times I think you are tough,
The way you sit up in alert as my footsteps pound against the wooden bridge.
Always it is a joy to see you, until a man takes you inside
leaving your cage alone and cold in the night.
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2 comments:
That was an amazing poem. Oh my gosh that was really good use of figurative language. Its really good!
WoW! you really took a diffrent approach to that poem talkingh about a relationship with an animal. Keep up the good work.
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