Sunday, August 22, 2010

Review: "I want to be the spider"

Here is a poem I like very much.

It was composed by an eleven year old child. What I especially like about it is that there is no digression from the main import (which is usually typical of novice attempts at verse, something I still struggle with), and the poem ends with a clear conclusion that ties up beautifully with everything that precedes it. My recommendation to the young poet is to lend the work some structure - maybe give every verse a meter. Start with (given the opening verse):

[da-dum] [da-dum] [da-dum] [da-dum]
[I-want]  [to-be]      [the-spi]  [der-that]

MashaAllah for the clarity of thought that gave rise to this poem.

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