Not My Own

[starrysky]

I wrote this a couple of years ago. I don't like being told what to write, so I decided to write about that. The italicized words are the ten vocabulary words I used. Plz let me know what you think.

Not My Own

I write this poem
not as an assignment,
but to express,
my distress
at being handed some
random words, and told,
plain and bold,
to write a poem
with ten of them.

But those words.... they are

Not my own.

Words I’d expect a person half
my age to know; I laugh.
Are you serious?
These words are limp and sun-bleached.
They are dilapidated.
They are muddy, and wilted,
only forging a tunnel
to the wicker basket that will
lock me inside a poem
Spoken with a voice.... that is

Not my own.

So I blink,
and think,
that instead of
writing a
creepy poem of toxic lies
covering my real thoughts,
Why not speak of
those words that do not belong?
Making my thoughts
heard, and, caught
within them, will be
those words.... that are

Not my own.

 

[restless_heart]

I really like it. It is intersting poem you got there. There are ways I do know what you meant. I don't like to be told what to write either. Is that your first poem? I have written close to 40 poems since 2003.

 

[restless_heart]

I notice you are a bookworm. I am also a book worm but I am addict to books and I love writing novels, all unpublished yet and working on one to send out real soon.

 

[starrysky]

I love to write as well, and I am also writing books. Two of them at the same time. Originally I was only writing one, but I was given a short story assignment. It was about three pages, front and back, but I didn't finish the story line because I ran out of time. I asked some of my friends to edit it, and they said that it was good. But they kept asking me to finish it. I'm happy to do that, though, because writing is so much fun. It's only been about three weeks in the making, so I haven't gotten much farther, but please feel free to read it. It's untitled so far.

 

[starrysky]

I really like it. It is intersting poem you got there. There are ways I do know what you meant. I don't like to be told what to write either. Is that your first poem? I have written close to 40 poems since 2003.

No, I've written poems before that, but it's one of my better ones. At least, that's what I want to think. I wrote that in 2005. I don't know how many poems I've written. I'm too disorganized. But one of my favorite types of poems are haikus. They're short, and they don't have to rhyme.
And yes, it really is annoying to be told what to write. I think it's even worse when I have to write an essay and they give you a really bad prompt. Something like, "Write about your best day in school," or, "Students are complaining about having back trouble from carrying too many books," or something else that is very dull.