Poetry Exposed

I am going through some old poems I wrote a while back and found this one that I was amazed with when some followers on Deviant Art's site featured it. Woot! Too bad it can't go in the query letter though...

The Bee

I saw a bee
Once
Sitting still
So perfectly still
For once

It was caught in
Webs
Thrashing about
So helplessly struggling
Against threads

It hurt to see
It
Dying there
Giving up flying
Through air

It stopped fighting it
Accepting
His death
Becoming spider food
Before sunset

So this silly girl
Tried
Freeing it
Only to realize
She’d actually
Helped
Quicken to kill it



The Plaque - this is a poem I wrote when a writing professor asked me to summarize one of my novel ideas into a poem.

In this spot in 1944
(The faded plaque says)
Nothing historic happened here.

In this spot in 1944
(As the metal letters tell)
No boy
Met a girl
Nothing transpired
For nothing historic
Not even love
Or running
Fleeing
Escaping
Saving
Her
Happened here.

In this spot in 1944
(Despite greening copper words)
No soldier
Gave his life
Nothing occurred
For nothing historic
Not even hate
Or fighting
Dying
Bleeding
Killing
Life
Happened here.


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