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Feeding after "Beautiful Women"

October 4, 2013
By Lagrant_Starks BRONZE, Detroit, Michigan
Lagrant_Starks BRONZE, Detroit, Michigan
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Favorite Quote:
" I pity you. You just don't get it at all. There's not a thing i don't cherish!"


I’d like to write my thoughts

on paper,
but it could never happen as I want.
Something’s always
blocking my creative side.
A lot of the time
I don’t even know what it is.

What’s worse is when you know what it is.
In context, it’s always yourself…
More or less.
Your thinking will always be your downfall. Just
like the roses that grow,
only to die
and wilt in the fall.

You’ve trapped your own bird
in it’s own cage.
But I don’t want to talk about cages,
it’s more about
what you feed the bird. I might say that if you “Feed” him,
one day he will grow big enough to break free.
What have you been feeding your bird?

So,
Let’s think.
You’re a bird.
So what are your cages?
And what have you fed him?


The author's comments:
This poem was modeled after "Beautiful women" by Stephen Dunn.

Lagrant gave time to think about phrases inside the poem by mainly using white space to create energetic and influential words. He would make emphasized phrases by interruptions in the flow of the line and using punctuation to influence meaning in words. He made connections to real life objects to tie into his own idea and throw the weight onto sentence structure. He used words that surely everyone would know in an effort to create a impacting and powerful but able to understand poem. He also emphasized his thoughts on the bigger picture and never actually focused on the little things. His poem contains heavy symbolism to try and make the reader think about it more heavily.

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