Stand Out From Underneath It All

I should be reading The Perks Of Being A Wallflower considering I have to write a book report on it on Wednesday or Thursday, I don't really remember what day. I'm a little more half way finished with the book though and I just started it last night. I think that's pretty good for me. It takes a lot for me to actually read a book. It's a very good book though.

Anyway, we are talking about poetry in Creative Writing and stuff and we were talking about our definitions or connotations of different words. One of the words were summer and it reminded me of a poem I wrote the last night of summer 2005. It was by far the best summer of my life. It's probably a stupid poem, but I suppose I will post it anyway.

Summer 2005

The days that stay in memory forever

The nights that last as long as never

They start off slow and end too fast

I need this summer to last

The crazy parties and the one on one nights

Scary movies that give me frights

I need this summer to last forever

The good and bad I'll always remember

3AM laughs

& every single photograph

I'll keep them till the end

To remember this summer that was anything but pretend.

Now that I read it over again... A year or two later I've come to realize this poem is terrible, but at the same time amazing. I guess you had to be there during that summer, with me and my friends to understand all the words that add up to a perfect summer.

I should read a little more, and I'm on the third round of listening to The Album. I swear, I will marry Ronnie Day. :-)

Cya!

1 Comments:

CWTeacher said...

When you say, "I guess you had to be there during that summer, with me and my friends to understand all the words that add up to a perfect summer," you have hit upon exactly what connotation is all about. But when you fill your poetry with vivid images, we can feel as if we were there with you in the summer of 2005. And that's what good poetry is all about!