Three Turns and Forever
I stepped back into some very familiar territory the other day and wrote a poem in my spare time: “Three Turns and Forever.” It’s been quite a long time since I last wrote a poem, and I’m pretty happy with the result. Like most of my poems over the last few years (and almost all of the good ones), it’s very inspired by E. E. Cummings (my favorite poet). I’m not going to post the whole thing (because it’s pretty personal), but the first stanza is below:
story told,
beyond time rhyme reason hope.
story told, but not a
story finished.
It’s a very unexpected continuation to series of poems written by myself and one of my friends, Amelia, several years ago. And while I’m sure the poems themselves have been long lost over time, I haven’t forgotten them. (In fact, that’s one of the themes of my poem. Some things are not forgotten; they’re simply not remembered for a long time.)
Anyway, I DO think I’m going to post a different poem, just for old time’s sake. (Melanie, I hope you’re reading, because this is for you!) I wrote it back in April of 2009…almost three months after Amelia and I broke up. (Actually, most of the best poems I’ve written were from that relationship and the turbulence thereafter. There was a hell of a lot of raw emotion back in those days.) I’d forgotten it still existed, actually, and I’m glad I found it. I wrote it for my senior AP English class, and it was the only good thing to come out of that whole damn class. It was also the only good poem I ever wrote for any assignment, in fact. It’s in the villanelle style, which is one of the only structured styles I actually enjoy. It takes a lot of effort to make a villanelle work.
It felt good to be back in the realm of poetry, but I’m really happy I jumped back in for a bit. Now it’s time to jump back into building my career, I guess. To the Dat(a) Cave!
