FOR THE GIRL WHO WAS TRULY VALEDICTORIAN
AND KNOWS IT.
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I can't glue a plus to a lonely "A"
or rewrite my life story --
I'm never there to sieze the day,
and my nights are bereft of glory.
A hundred hips and willing lips
were frozen in my future;
a thousand offerings woven in
a stitch, a useless suture.
I made a pact with pleasure,
who in a six-day war
had hand-crafted my treasure
and let it hit the floor.
Freshly plucked from an ego trip,
piecing back a shattered school --
I was failure's sinking sister ship
where achievement was the rule.
Author notes
((teen idol 5; i am so eliminated))
Yay, I did rhyme this time!
It may seem a little too loosely interpreted as far as the prompt goes.
However, I read between the lines a little: I saw the prompt as something like "pitfalls in the past, and no opportunity can fix them now." I wrote about this. The "vase" imagery is alluded to gently in the last two stanzas.
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Another semi-personal poem, ehehe. About last year's joint valedictorianship with a massively talented person, much more so than I.
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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Cool, not only can you freeverse, but you can rhyme too.. awesome. Great take on the prompt, best of luck in the contest.
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