Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Pantoum Poem by Issac Szepessy

 Pantoum Poem by Issac Szepessy: Society of Little Gardens


IT’S WEIRD TO BE BACK ON THIS BENCH

HAZAH! SOME SAID. AND SOME SAID GOD SAVE THE KING

I DON’T THINK ANYONE SAID GOD SAVE THE KING

A GRAY CREASED ROCK + TOTAL KNEE CARE


HAZAH! SOME SAID. AND SOME SAID GOD SAVE THE KING

THE ROCK SAID, “many american soldiers…were buried in this ground”

A GRAY CREASED ROCK + TOTAL KNEE CARE

SO AND I DON’T WANT TO GET UP—NO NO NO NO


THE ROCK SAID, “many american soldiers…were buried in this ground”

Men have died in the darkness; BUT THERE IS A BREEZE. IT IS NICE.

SO AND I DON’T WANT TO GET UP—NO NO NO NO

unmarked graves of those who died of wounds and sickness


Men have died in the darkness; BUT THERE IS A BREEZE IT IS NICE.

I DON’T THINK ANYONE SAID GOD SAVE THE KING

SO AND I DON’T WANT TO GET UP—NO NO NO NO

IT’S WEIRD TO BE BACK ON THIS BENCH


3 comments:

  1. I really like how you included the dialogue from the passing in people, very clever.

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  2. The use of capitalization draws in the reader and adds an amusing chaotic feeling to the poem.

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    1. Ienjoyed reading your Pantoum Poem .and I thought that it was creative to also give voice to an inanimate object.(" The Rock said,"many American Soldiers ...were buried in this ground").

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