It's me who will decide who will get to share me . Well, when I'm writing poetry, especially for a class, I know that there is a major chance that my 17 other peers will get to read it, or will listen to me recite it. There's something about poetry that everyone should know. Maybe they'll get it right at the second they read it or in four days or even in four months, but people will get them. Probably not the way the poet had intended them to be, but people will get poetry in their own way.
Successful poems are like successful pieces of art.
I peel layers, that's my job as a poet. As long as I have given my best to the work, then I have done my job. It's now up to everyone else to peel their own layers, to see if what's within their skin is a reflection of what I have written. Most works completed within my senior elective, Imaginative Writing Class at Fort Worth Country Day School. Photograph on left taken by my friend, Jason Miers.