Wednesday's Poem: "This Poem Doesn’t Care That It Isn’t a Sonnet "
This Poem Doesn’t Care That It Isn’t a Sonnet
This poem doesn’t care about the movie Avatar,
doesn’t care about iPods or Notebooks or
the divorce of reality from reality; it isn’t
thinking of animal shelters, three million plus
deaths per year; this poem isn’t thinking
of oil or children or ice melting with climate
that is here or not here; this poem has nothing
to do with the bodies of women which have
ceased to move on cots or sidewalks; this poem
doesn’t know the legal age of marriage for
girls in Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia etc.;
it has stopped looking for the name of the one
killed in a bus by a bomb, in a car by a sniper,
on the path by a tripwire, in a house, in a crib.
This poem isn’t waiting for pain’s reprieve,
for grief to pack up its tools for another heart’s
pale. It is hungry for milk, for the messages
of pillow and sheet; it wants the drowse
of the egg in the open nest, a plain thing, in-
effable brim of shade, yellow apples ripening.
Laurie Lamon
from Willow Springs #67
I really like the style of this poem. I feel like the poem itself is the character, which is pretty confusing. Aside from the confusion, though, by making the poem a character, the poem has its own feelings to convey to its readers and therefore the feelings are more intensely shown. The poem cares nothing about what everyone else is concerned about. The poem feels it has more important desires, more plain and natural desires rather than concerning itself with the social problems of the world.
ReplyDeleteI think this poem is really neat. We can relate to everything it is talking about. Like bombings, movies, and updated technology. Its satirical. Its so true that we get so caught up in things that really don't matter now-a-days. Like who has the newest iPad. And this poem points it out, using literature... which the poet points out has become second to all the World news and technology.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Mariah Hamil, the poem makes me think that the world has become too materialistic and dramatic. Especially the first four lines.
ReplyDeleteI think this poem is pretty cool. I really like it just cause when you read it, at first it kind of confuses you but then you can break it up piece by piece and understand what it really means. I also really like the name of the poem "This poem doesn't care that it isn't a sonnet." I just think this poem isn't that text book style of a poem. I also found it cool that there was a etymology vocab word in there !!
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