Recreation Day: My attempt at poetry – Heaven help us all!

(Every once in a while, when I don't really feel like being smart, or approximately witty, I will have a "Recreation Day" post. This is basically a day off from all that "hard thinking," and a time to sit back and enjoy the random simplicity of life)

 

Okay, I'm obviously not the sort of person who is going to admit his utter lack of talent, so I decided I would try out poetry…

Now I don't necessarily have an INTEREST in poetry, per se (though I do have a sincere appreciation for the art), but I was just…well, let me try to explain:

 

I was studying for the Analyzing and Interpreting Literature CLEP test one fine day (more specifically looking at the glossary so I would at least know a few terms), and I came across a fascinating term:

CINQUAIN

Now a cinquain is a certain breed of poetry wherein there are five lines of 2, 4, 6, 8, and 2 syllables respectively (if my memory serves me correctly).

 

Well…if you are like me, then what you just read about the details of a cinquain should make NO SENSE WHATSOEVER! Goodness, I had no clue what that was supposed to mean!

 

Five lines of WHAT respectively?!?!?!

 

So, I decided I would try it out for myself. I actually created a cinquain poem!

 

I was so proud of myself, that I even gave it an epic title!

Would you like to see it?

…PROMISE YOU WON'T LAUGH???

 

Okay here it is:

 

Blindness Afflicted
Upon Ourselves,
by Jared Hooper

 

I wish

That you could see.

But no, you never will;

Because you never want to see

The truth.

 

 

 

I know…I know…Moved you, didn't it? This is what happens when you let a fool have too much time on his hands!

 

I think that, after this ruination of your eyes by my butchery of the poetic arts, I should make it up to you…

 

Therefore, the next few posts will be a SERIES.

what will this series be about????

 

YOU WILL NEVER GUESS! Not in a MILLION YEARS!

 

You never saw this coming! Stay tuned!!!

 

(El Pensador, over and out!)