I Found You!

This si actually a really cool idea. In my grade 12 english class we did "found poems" while reading The Stone Angel. Found poems are created by taking quotes from another piece of writing and creating a whole new poem. Part of the assignment in this case was to create a poem to better explain a theme of the novel. Enjoy!

At the Cemetery on the Hill

April 2011

Rigid as marble I sit

At the cemetery on the hill

I try to pray

But I’m damned

Neglected

A throbbing pain in every part of me

A cold memory before I’m on my way down the steep slopes

To be swallowed by the night

I’ve gone beyond

I’m dead

Until Then

April 2011

I’ll meet it when it comes

But I’m not weary at all

You never know what’s going to happen to you in this life

I knew the chance I took when I began

May they not come to the place where sun and shadow mingle

I’ll not sleep a wink tonight they’re greatly mistaken

I’ve taken matters into my own hands

Barricaded against the dried blood red and the shadows on the sea

I’ll be an escaped convict an angry shadow

Until at last I rest