Wednesday, October 05, 2005

no more reading in literature class about a little girl named Heidi who tended goats--now onto higher things such as a man who bleached himself into invisibility and madness, and another story about a man who turned into a beetle--WHAAAT?



Here's my finished poem...


Can you see the Monster?

Its eyes are two black shipwrecks—
Its tongue is one blue wave

It rolls on without ceasing
Take all that you can save

It heeds no lonely lighthouse
To stand you must be brave

A child’s wail
Heard through the gale

The sailors quake in fear
Their doom is coming near

The water swirls
It twists and curls

And then…without a word

The wind drops
The storm stops

Gull’s voices now are crying
The frothy foam is drying

At last the sand is eaten
The final shore is beaten

Did you see the monster?

5 comments:

Loreo said...

This is Meredith's blog, right? Meredith, do you remember me--Lori Redman? I'm first cousins with your mom. That poem is really awesome! Good job! I have a blog too--visit me sometime at loreos.blogspot.com. :)

wideyed said...

yup, I know who you are...someday I'll have to make the trek out west to see y'all, meanwhile, blogging will have to suffice ;)

TripleNine said...

I have to ditto what she said. Nice job on the poem.

drewey fern said...

Meredith! I didn't read that weird beetle story 'till I was in college! Way to do some advanced reading. And Melissa read that for college last year and wrote a killer paper on it if you want to plagiarize:)

Cara said...

i've had enough of H.G. Wells for now. if i HAVE to read his works, i suppose i could. but he's just freaky. i wonder what went on in his mind.