So, once again I come to you with an assignment from my Composition 101 class. The past 2 weeks we have been doing a poetry unity, which makes the former emo kid in my jump with non-conformist glee. As an assignment, we were asked to write a few different types of poems. These included a poem about your hometown, a haiku, a sonnet, and an ode. I have never really been one for writing sappy sweet love poems, so I decided to see if I could try to write a negative ode, which in itself might be an oxymoron. So, I though I would share my attempt at a negative ode with you. Enjoy!
ode to a mis-imagined person
i could wrap you in metaphor
shower you in flowery words to describe everything i wanted you to be
everything that you weren’t
and you
in my mind
like the black keys of a piano
always an exaggeration of some other note
you
with your hair
silky and smooth
styled perfectly to look as if you had just woken up
you
with that calm voice
an excuse always at the ready
you
with that innocent smile
but a person cannot be judged solely on their teeth
you
that figment in my mind
that strain on my life
that person that i didn’t see
