June Found Poem

Come Find Me Here

This poem is inspired by William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This is written in the voice of the character Hermia when she and Lysander are meant to meet in their secret hide-away in the forest (*please note that this is not a scene in the play, but rather an extrapolated fabrication). In this poem, Hermia has arrived before her forbidden love and is waiting for his arrival.

This poem is a Shakespearian sonnet, meaning that it has a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg and is written completely in iambic pentameter. Because it is a plea to be found and because of the summer-like description, it works perfectly as the June found poem. Furthermore, it could not be more of a contrast from the June lost poem Finding the Lies.

This poem uses poetic devices such as alliteration, personification, assonance, repetition, and metaphors.

Beneath the willow branches, as they weep,

I find sweet peace as I lie down to rest.

Atop a bed of whisp’ring ferns, I sleep,

As lullabies escape a songbird’s nest.

Come find me here, within this sacred place.

Come, hasten now, and lie here by my side.

Then, once again, I may caress your face,

And here, no longer will we have to hide.

Our voices, two, will join the songbird’s chime

And we may do whatever we may please.

Together, we will wait away the time,

Day in, day out, we’ll glide through life with ease.

Come find me here, we’ll make this place our own.

Come, hasten now, for now, I am alone.

-          Rachel Harrison