Ok so I had another lame excercise were I was forced to use rhyming words within a poem that I had generated at random, before I knew I was going to use the words for a poem. We were given a list of words and told to come up with another word for the association, not a bad idea for a short excercise but to have us be forced into using the sounds within a serious piece I think is ridiculous, I get the sense this lady feels we have no basis to begin with so she gives us these excercise to get us started, but binding us to them, especially those of us who do have experience using sound within a poem, anyways, I decided to stay faithful to the assignment, Im big on school integrity these days. My sounds were , never stop/every drop, whispering/history, lightning bolt/try and sulk, hurt/Earth. The rest of the play on sound was generated by myself. Its very difficult to create a coherent theme within a piece when forced to use random words just because they rhyme, but fuck it, here is what I came up with.
Angels
A lightning bolt will cry and sulk
before it leaves the sky behind to
join us on Earth. Why
do you think it hurts?
And angels weep when witnessing
another baby born. They mourn
because they know that (half the time)
we forget our promises to return home.
Awake from sleep and listening
to silence, hear them whispering
the history of the soul, “you know”
they say “you know”.
Their love for us will
never stop like every drop of
rain forms just one ocean;
they need us to be whole.
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