Our views collide
Like opposing tides.
She takes my opinion in teaspoons,
Her own in gallons,
And below the surface
Gut-wrenching blows come left and right
Bruising my pride,
Yet I hold myself back.
I silence my voice
Quiet defiance.
Deep within a kettle
Miniscule bubbles rise and burst
From the somber abyss, heat climbs
To boil.
To erupt.
Too long, I hide behind the illusion
“That everything is just fine”
The desire to break free from my restraints
To unleash a flood of emotion,
Corrodes inside of me
An unwieldy rage.
What once bound our relationship tight
Now only composed of a thin thread
My hidden desire to explode with wrath,
Suppressed.
Fire from the furnace,
warms the shining, adamantine shell
And out of the skeletal hull
Shrieks angry steam.
Desperately escaping through
any openings.
With no hope to contain this volatile nature
It’s time for tea.
I like how you use italics and formating to show parallels in the metaphor between the tea pot and the narrator.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite line is the ending. It provides a sort of closure but it's still very open to interpretation.
Niceee job. :)
I like how you set the awkwardness and tension in the poem by using the teapot and the formatting/italics. My favorite line was the last one because it keeps the tension in the air.
ReplyDeleteIt really caught my eye when you used different smilies to convey your feelings and what you were trying to emphasize. My favorite line from your poem was definitely the line, "too long I hide behind the illusion." I really connected to when you start talking about how you just want to let go of all your emotions and "break free."
ReplyDeleteI really liked how you formatted the poem with the serious and calm tone on separate sides of the poem. The imagery of the second stanza was also very strong as I loved the "From the somber abyss, heat climbs, To boil. To erupt." line the best. I also really liked how you used "It's time for tea." as a calm conclusion to a very fervent poem.
ReplyDeleteI like the way you organized your poem and the emphasis you had on the comparison between the narrator and the tea kettle through the alternating stanzas. My favorite line of this poem is the last line because it's a symbolic mic drop which will stand out to any reader.
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