You know how it feels when pages of a book get stuck together, and you can’t get them apart, you can’t turn the page?
That’s me.
I am stuck.
You know that one paragraph that happens to be the key to enlightenment is unbearably hard to read? And you have to read it over and over again trying to make sense of it? That’s me.
I am confused.
You know how, when reading a book, there is this one sentence you want to read over and over, maybe even for no reason at all? I do.
And this sentence wants me to turn the page, and see what comes next, but my pages are stuck together.
I might skip all the words.
And have you ever seen an open, empty notebook, and thought it was waiting for you? Did you fill it with your words?
I am the empty page
The unlined sheet
Wanting and waiting to be filled.
I am the page that will not turn
I am the paragraph reread-
But never understood--- and then forgotten.
I am the chapter in everyone’s life that no one likes
And I am the unfulfilled dream left behind.
I am waiting
I am empty
I am alone.
Who will write my next chapter?
A contest entry
- 'Beast, Book, Body' - Another Poem by Erica Jong by truembrace.
300 points, ended April 17, 2007, 2 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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I like the honesty of this poem. The images were clear. You brought us, line by line, through the examples of how one may feel as that blank page, waiting for the words, etc.
The poem that was to inspire each of the poems for the contest, I was hoping would be more directed towards relationships similar to the voice that Erica Jong applies to many of her poems - there always seems to be a strong connection, then reference to contrast between men and women. Your poem has a complete distance that I perceived from your verses. It seemed more focused to how you feel as a "blank page" versus a page that might have been complemented by the existence of another person.
At any rate, I liked the poem. It wasn't exactly what I was looking for - but we all have a different interpretation of most poems. Though, yours was different than my expectations were - it was still a very good entry and I enjoyed reading it very much.
Thanks for taking the time to write and enter this.
Kim
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Fantastic
A gem of a poem. Keep expressing.
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