Wednesday, February 02, 2011

College poem assignment #1

Part of my goal this year to better myself and my life includes renewing my teaching license, which means I have to take 6 college credits sometime before my birthday. Good thing I realized this before classes started this semester!

One of my classes I am taking is a poetry writing class. I thought it would be fun and challenging, and since I do enjoy writing, it would give me an excuse to force myself to do it.

Our first assignment was to write a short, 5-line poem about night somewhere that I have lived. I thought of so many different ways I could go about this one, but after visiting a nightclub just the other day with some friends of mine, I decided to use the inspiration from that experience to write my poem. Here it is, called "Pure Night":

the beautiful lost return again to

smoke and sound and sweat on a sticky floor

color and cologne mingle too closely

as the girl wraps herself around a stranger

who consents to break his vows


© 2011 Jessica Baldwin

3 comments:

Tisra said...

You're a beautiful, talented woman who has just painted a scene that makes me want to take a shower. But you wrote it so nicely that it doesn't sound so bad, after all. Kind of like when the British insult each other.

Jessie said...

Ha! Thanks, Tisra. I love that analogy :)

Anonymous said...

Awesome my friend. Love your train of thought :)