A Poem Called "Poem"

by Sofia Bucco

First Place

Beverly High School
Grade 9

I was assigned to write a poem,

But I have no clue where to start.

Do I make it rhyme every other line,

Or maybe go free verse?

I could do a cool haiku,

Or a sonnet about bonnets,

No, that is too weird.

Maybe one of those picto-poems

OF

A BALL,

A PERFECT RED

BALL THAT IS CALLED

AN APPLE, BUT IS
THAT TOO
“ME”?

I could do one                                    OF

Those

                    SUPER

CONFUSING,                                                                            DIFFICULT TO READ,

WHY TORTURE US WITH THIS

Type       

                                 of       

  POEM

Or maybe for some reason type on the right side,

just because my poem is too unique,

too special,

too good to be typed on the left side, like it needs to make a statement.

There are just so many things to do, metaphors, personification, onomatopoeia (how did i spell that correctly?!), similes, true meanings that we need to figure out after a bunch of work and effort... only for our teacher to say we misinterpreted the poem incorrectly, and thinking maybe you did instead. But if I wrote that nonsensical type, everyone else would misinterpret the poem and end up confused.

I could try to write a story and say that it is a new type of poem,

Or go bake a pumpkin pie.