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| Not My Sock Drawer |
Six year-old homework,
Broken pencils,
Discarded candy wrappers,
A single table leg.
Three separate ketchup packets,
Seventeen grains of salt: I counted,
Half a flank steak,
A whole roast chicken.
An iPhone charger,
Two mariachi bands,
A hair dryer,
Eight different shoe laces.
Twelve choir singers,
Fifteen garbage men,
Nine kindergartners,
The entire state of Idaho.
The space-time continuum,
Twenty-six different kinds of string-theory,
A season seven box set of the Big Bang Theory: the best one,
And the actual Big Bang.
This is what I find when I look in my drawer in the morning.
I’ll admit two mariachi bands really help wake me up,
But what I would like to find,
Is a pair of socks.
This is really creative and interesting to read as the items become bigger with every stanza. My favorite line is, "I’ll admit two mariachi bands really help wake me up". Overall, it reveal a lot about your personality but also gives everyone something to relate to.
ReplyDeleteI completely love this poem.
ReplyDeleteI love how light-hearted and fun this poem is! I really like the hyperbole you use in what you find in your sock drawer. My favorite line is: “And the actual Big Bang” because it shows how something so mundane like a sock drawer can contain the world.
ReplyDeleteI love this poem because it's playful. I like the "seventeen grains of salt; I counted". I like how the structure of the poem is continuous until the end.
ReplyDeleteI really like this poem because it keeps the reader engaged without giving too much away in the first few stanzas. You lead the readers throughout the flow of your poem quite nicely. My favorite line is "Seventeen grains of salt: I counted" because it's detailed yet subtle.
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