Journal 40: Poetry and Imagination

       The passage has a figurative meaning because we naturally sees images in our mind while reading the poem. The poem is illustrating the author’s love for reading or writing poems that it is like the joy he gets while eating something he loves. Our imagination is one of the key thing that makes the world fun! It transform simple and maybe pointless thing to something we laugh at and make jokes about during the spare time.

        I personally think poetry is a very hard to understand thing. Although the meanings behind the poem could be very deep and interesting, I don’t like to unscramble words. However I do like the sounds of poems when reading aloud. There may or may not be meanings attached to it but it is okey. It is like listening to music on the subway while you began falling asleep. The words and meanings of the song didn’t matter anymore it is the sound and rhythm that matters.

       I had made a poem during class. The idea was from an poem made by Janet Lin who won one of the poetry awards. And here it goes:

Friends for never

That’s when I realize that we are not friends forever,

you are my friend for never.

Betrayal once, twice triple,

mess with my head like riddle.

Are we friends are we not.

Sharpen words like bloody arrow,

Cut through my heart without sorrow.

In the bloodsheds lay,

Trust, faith, and last “hey”