The Importance of Being a Rocket

Transformation

Transformation

 

Morning, afternoon, sun rises and sets

The light peeks through the trees

A time for quiet as I reminisce on regrets

The breeze puts me at ease.

A time of day when imagination runs wild

The music sings in my ears.

Filled with the admiration of a child

My voice echoes as if I have no fears

Abruptly one morning the world becomes white

The spring trees are in full bloom

From dark winter comes glorious light

Better times are ahead, I assume

In a few days,  nature transforms again.

The streets are lined with purple and green.

Some say beauty brings rain,

But in my eyes, the warmth is serene.

Each day, my fantasies take me away

The weight of reality, lifted

At the end of the ride, I pray

I may return to the focus from which I drifted.

From our allies we tend to hear lies.

Others pass, though our eyes do not meet

I cannot see the ideas that rise in their skies.

The potential is left incomplete.

The road bends, and I slow around the curve

I, too, turn over new leaf.

What I earn, I will deserve.

I’ll hold to what I believe.

            My poem “Transformation,” is modeled after the writing style of Percy Bysshe Shelley. I used some of the same themes as Shelley such as the beauty of nature and the power of the human mind. This poem also includes the same rhyme scheme found in many of Shelley’s works. The scheme, ababcdcdefefghgh…, is shown in poems like “Ozymandias” and “Mutability.” Percy Bysshe Shelley is also known for using eye rhyme, or the use of words that look like they rhyme, but do not actually sound similar. Shelley uses this in his poem, “On Death” when he writes,

“The secret things of the grave are there,

Where all but this frame must surely be,

 Though the fine-wrought eye and the wondrous ear.”

 The words there and ear look like they should rhyme, but create different sounds. An example of eye rhyme in my poem is ‘rain’ and ‘again’. This poem, as well as the many written by Percy Bysshe Shelley, utilizes characteristics common in writing published during the Romantic Period. Some obvious Romantic themes in “Transformation” include a strong sense of beauty of the surround world and a vivid imagination.