fact or fiction
Is it fact or merely fiction? Fact or Fiction explores the myths and beliefs we hold about what makes a good poem and the poetry rules that were made to be broken.
Dear mother dearest.
Dear mom, I have been angry at you for a long time. My anger stems from being taken away from you, and remembering how mean you can get. It hurt my feelings when you screamed at me that you wish you never birthed me and you felt like I was a mistake and got on your nerves. I am sorry that you feel that way. There was a significant reason why I prayed to my higher power at five years of age and never was exposed to religion at the time or there being such thing as the higher power. I am hurting and have been for years, and at thirty five years of age at 35 years young I am more healed than you know from just doing me, so don't you dare try to tell me how to do me, I am not a child any more.
By Angelina F. Thomas4 years ago in Poets
The Facebook Sonnet: Denying Reality, Honoring Disconnection
Sonnets, like other forms of poetry, can be about a variety of topics such as love, people, objects, and so on. Sonnets consist of fourteen lines, contain iambic pentameter, and have rhyme. It is utterly amazing how writers can write about simple things and get audiences to become engaged. When writing a sonnet, writers must be sure that they are focused on a single idea so that readers do not get lost. The Facebook Sonnet by Sherman Alexie speaks to those who use social media constantly. Facebook is used by billions and billions of people worldwide; its mission statement is “to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.” However, over the years, Facebook has been utilized in ways that are unhealthy. Through the use of irony and rhyme, The Facebook Sonnet gives people the reality of what social media truly represents, which is that Facebook is viewed as this sacred place people can go to for anything that they are dealing with in their lives.
By Diani Alvarenga4 years ago in Poets
Alt Pandora's Box
According to Hesiod, when Prometheus stole fire from heaven, Zeus, the king of the gods, took vengeance by presenting Pandora to Prometheus' brother Epimetheus. Pandora opened a jar left in her care containing sickness, death and many other unspecified evils which were then released into the world, but what if Pandora’s Box or Jar contained nothing but good things. I know hope was there at the bottom, but I feel that often humanity looks for the worst things.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 4 years ago in Poets
