It’s poetry time!!! Enjoy. Hugs, Olivia
This is one of the oldest poems that I’ve written. It was written in June 1990, when I was 14. I remember asking my English teacher to read it one day at the end of class. I waiting patiently beside her desk for her to read it. Her feedback was carefully worded ambiguity, which even then struck me as comical. She never said didn’t come out and say that she didn’t like it or that it wasn’t good for a middle school kid playing around with words. She just acted like she didn’t really want to talk about it. It’s gone through a few revisions since then, but I’ve tried to keep it as close to the original as my own self-criticism will allow.
The clock, I hear it ticking
The inner gears turning, clicking
But wait, Shhh—
There it is again,
Another one dead.
The hollow chiming
Rings above the city
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