Poetry Homework

Hi everybody,

I hope you all had a great memorial day weekend and are looking forward to a fantastic upcoming summer vacation.

I am sad to say I will not be going on a trip with UNICEF this summer, but emanzadventures will not cease to produce worldly information.

This semester in school, I studied poetry. I thought poetry was going to be dull and uninteresting, but I ended up finding poems and poets I enjoyed and took pleasure to reading them.  I had an assignment where I listened to a poem in class, and then had to write my own poem with a similar rhythm or theme. This particular assignment I was instructed to write a poem about a strong memory. I chose to write a poem inspired by my trip to senegal since the experience is something I will rememember for all of my life.

Senegal

I smell something

A decaying fish on a table

Trash reeking all over

I see something

Where no child should be

Where no life should be lived

I hear something

The crowd of people

The laughter of children

Where they have nothing

Not even parents to love

I taste something

The bitterness of it all

The flavorlessness of this prison

I touch something

A hand of a child

A rush of excitement

A burst of HOPE

        

                  -Emmanuel Zilber

Tell me if you enjoyed this poem. Is there anything surprising about the images?  I would also enjoy if you want to write a poem about your most memorable memory. Feel free to share in the comments. 

Thanks!! 

Emmanuel