April Lost Poem

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This poem, along with its “found” counterpart, is meant to explore the thought patterns of a very disorganized mind. By using no punctuation and a rather choppy stream of consciousness, regarding a forgotten poem, my goal was to create an image of the narrator’s thoughts. The improper capitalization has two purposes: firstly, it is meant to further the appearance of chaotic atmosphere of the poem and secondly, when strung together, the capitalized letters spell out the nature of this individual’s mind.

In order to achieve the thought-like tone, I chose to write this poem in free verse with only very basic poetic devises such as similes and metaphors. Both these poems fit into my theme because they explore the way in which we find and lose ideas and thoughts.

lost

one Poem

i swEar i had it fiRmly in my head

Planted so snugly betweEn my imaginaTion and cerebral cortex

that it woUld remAin there forever

yet somehow

it managed to wriggLe its way

through the Cracks

and drown itself in the spinning wHirlpool of my

thoughts

ideAtions

some fully fOrmed

Some never complete

i hAve them from time to time

they spring iNto my heaD

like corks popping out of champagne bottles

then before I know what’s happeneD

they’re gone

wIth no proof they ever exiSted

aside frOm faint

memoRies

intanGible souvenirs

the form everything Is eventuAlly reduced to

aNd therefore

everything Is immortaliZed

and no mAtter how many Time i

share these memorIes

they will always be mine

althOugh oNce and awhile

i find them getting

lost

one poem

i found please Return to me

reward gUaranteed

pLEaSe