Place | Teen Ink
  1. Home
  2. Poetry
  3. Free Verse
  4. Place

Place

October 22, 2012
By Clara_W BRONZE, Chicago, Illinois
More by this author
Clara_W BRONZE, Chicago, Illinois
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Nothing Gold Can Stay: <br /> Nature&#039;s first green is gold, <br /> Her hardest hue to hold. <br /> Her early leaf&#039;s a flower; <br /> But only so an hour. <br /> Then leaf subsides to leaf. <br /> So Eden sank to grief, <br /> So dawn goes down to day. <br /> Nothing gold can stay.

View profile

Winter folds on us
Like a scrap of delicate paper
Its fingers working around us
Scuffing our edges.
Hear the clock tick
The promise of heavy cold in every sound.
And still the lone bluebird sings
Mourning it’s lost world
Finding a place in this one.

© Lauren D.M., Scotch Plains, NJ

The author's comments:
In English class last year, we did a very interesting exercise. My teacher told us to daydream, to enter our "mind's palace", and write down everything and anything that came to us. It was such a wonderful experience, and this is what inspired me to write this piece. I just let my mind open, and the words flowed out. This piece was written while thinking about the cold Chicago winters. I hope people can truly understand the physical and emotional cold of a seriously chilly winter!
Post a comment
Submit your own

Similar Articles

Previous Next
Poetry
Pretentious
By Kimora Braithwaite
Indian Trail, NC
Poetry
Alone
By bitty09 SILVER
Claymont, Delaware
bitty09 SILVER, Claymont, Delaware
5 articles 0 photos 0 comments
View profile
Poetry
La Push
By Renesmeem BRONZE
SeaTac, Washington
Renesmeem BRONZE, SeaTac, Washington
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
View profile
Poetry
Connected
By emolover95 GOLD
Park City, Utah
emolover95 GOLD, Park City, Utah
13 articles 0 photos 25 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Don&#039;t cry because it&#039;s over. Smile because it happened.&quot;

View profile
Poetry
Remembrance
By Rachel Bellah BRONZE
Seattle, Washington
Rachel Bellah BRONZE, Seattle, Washington
4 articles 0 photos 1 comment
View profile
Poetry
Do It Now!
By Lost-In-Life GOLD
Whitby, Other
Lost-In-Life GOLD, Whitby, Other
11 articles 0 photos 299 comments

Favorite Quote:
It&#039;s never to late, if it weren&#039;t for the last minute many things would never get done!

View profile

JOIN THE DISCUSSION

This article has 0 comments.