This is not directed at any of you guys, since I know you're all so much more creative than what I'm describing here.
Depressing Poetry
Especially for teenagers.
Start off with something easy:
Like death.
That’s always easy.
To write about, at least.
Or maybe how
“No one gets you”.
That’s a favorite.
“My parents don’t get me.”
“My friends don’t get me.”
“The world doesn’t get me.”
“My parents don’t get me.”
I’ve heard that before.
Maybe you can be a little more creative.
So, let’s go back to death.
You can always do stuff with death.
Just think of all the depressing words you can use:
Dark
Deep
Blood
Suicide (this one’s a classic)
Tears
Screams
Fear
Darkness
Darkness
Ooh, I like this already.
You can write it really fast.
See if you can beat five minutes.
You could set the world record for fastest-written depressing teenage poetry.
You can do it anywhere:
In your room,
In Health class,
In that dark
Edgy
Post-modern
Corner of the auditorium
With that out-of-tune piano
That sits there gathering the dust
Of another year of students
Who don’t know how to play.
See, I can do it, too.
Anyone can do it.
It’s easy.
What’s hard
Is writing poetry
That isn’t dark
That isn’t depressing
That doesn’t blend in with all the others.
Now, there’s a challenge.
That’ll take some effort.
Not sure I can do it.
But it’s worth a try.
4 comments:
I liked this poem a lot. It's one of my faves of all yo stuffs. All fun and light and witty and smart, all talking about what people are thinking. The opening and the middle are fantastic, but the ending bit, where you talk about 'what's hard' etc...it seems a little o.k. You know? It's fine, and it works, but I feel like the rest of the poem is demanding more of its ending, for something totally fresh and as witty and smart as the rest of it.
But that's just me. I'm wrong a LOT. So look for a second opinion, at least ^-^
I get what you mean about the ending. I was looking to find some way to wrap it up and this one might be a bit too heavy-handed.
Haha I read this, and I was like, wait, is this Nick? I mean that in a good way--it's really something different from you that we haven't really gotten the chance to see. I agree with Charles about the ending, it seems a little bit out of place, although I do like the last line.
Great job! You're really expanding your limits with this, and I think you did so very fantastically :)
"In that dark
Edgy
Post-modern
Corner of the auditorium"
is an awesome sequence of lines.
I agree with the others. Maybe just don't even try to talk about writing good poetry, just imply that it's hard because this is easy. That way you stay locked into the tone that you've built up and the whole thing stays amusing.
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