“Fill The Page” by Cassandra Clovis
“Fill The Page”
Cassandra Clovis
“Fill the page,” my teacher instructed to all of the students in my writing class.
But how should I? And why do I need to fill a page,
a lengthy, long page, to get out my deepest feelings
in the form of a poem? Yes, I write poems-
I feel that a poem deserves the blank spaces
between the lines and empty holes in the margins
and the pauses snuck into each of the stanzas
with the whispers of the white page.
A poem needs the emotional connection to quiet,
as quiet resembles peace, loneliness, and much more;
A crowded poem isn’t as clear without the choppiness
all over the page, and a poem with too many words
may become meaningless, no matter how sophisticated or repetitive it
is.
So, I can get my message across in half of the words you expect
and perhaps maybe that message has more of a reason
to exist in its shorter form.
I do not want to ruin a pure piece of writing to meet a minimum
requirement,
I do not want to push my wondrous brain further than it already works,
For if I do, I may not be able to tell my stories.
It all comes back to preference and imagination.
With my scarce amount of words,
I will construct a whirlwind of ideas for you.
Poems have no requirements. Poems are written with freedom.
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