I received a theme for my poetry challenge last night, and I’ve been working to fulfill it. Please bear in mind that I’m taking baby steps in traditional poetry. This is my first attempt at an iambic pentameter poem and while I didn’t initially intend for it to rhyme, it ended up that way. The rhyme scheme seems quite childish to me, being aabbccddeeffgg…etc etc and it isn’t to a specific form. I hope to get better. This is just a 20 line poem about the theme, which is as follows:
“The day 51% of Californian voters decided it was best for all concerned to take away the rights of gay Californians…why was the proposition allowed to be on the ballot to begin with? How does two men or two women getting married threaten to take anything away/devalue the marriage of a heterosexual couple??”
Thanks for your submission, and while I don’t have all of the answers, I can express what it feels like to me:
Proposition 8
by M.J. Adams
A California winter without sun
One blow of hate and civil rights undone
The dagger of religion stained with blood
While proposition eight slings human mud
November fourth a cry of triumph brings
To those with head and heart on angel wings
To those who have been wronged, by politics
their golden goblets pulled from eyes and lips
While underneath the layers of decay
the Constitution parchment giving way
A nation full of moral egotists
Have shunned all sign of vibrance which exists
The diff’rent labelled evil by their books
Which have from diff’rent others too, been took
And all who are not modern, white and straight
Are shut forever from their pearly gate
But evil done by they outnumbers all
The weak shall win, for they will surely fall
For folly favours those who play with fate
And those who spread but discontent and hate
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I’d say the strokes and rhymes worked incredibly well. It’s very hard to work in any form, and your baby steps have weight.
Well done, Mike. And thanks.