Imaginary Brother Poem

I do not believe that strict structure lends itself well to creativity and passionate expression. The idea of having to squash my words into villanelle, or sonnet, or ode makes me shudder. Caged creativity, to be sufficiently dramatic, is the bane of my existence. Perhaps, to teach myself a lesson, I should have chosen a stricter form for my poem. But this is not a poem I wrote for this assignment, this is a poem I wrote for a friend. The feelings that I attempt to express are real. My poem is not a checklist of the things that I’m afraid (or excited) that college might be (I haven’t even applied yet). It’s not a wide range of emotion on worldly subjects or about my own personal experience. It’s a poem for a friend whom I consider myself to be quite close to, whom I believed needed a little bit of hope. “Imaginary Brother” is a free-form poem in which I lend my passionate view of the world to another who, like myself, thinks too much.
It is particularly difficult to write a poem for a specific person when you know that the person in question will be reading it. I’ve wrote plenty …show more content…
Though this poem has no true rhyming pattern, there are places where it mimics one. One stanza reads, “we’ve been taught to live our lie. / And maybe this world we live in / expects all of our dreams to die,” with one non-rhyming line between the two rhyming lines. This pattern is also prominent in other places, “sliver of shining light. / Darkness is the only way / the universe knows how to say goodnight.” Later on, however, the line, “so that she may grow / in the golden glow of morning / under the bright, and forgiving halo,” mimics the rhyme scheme from before, but also has a rhyme within the second line that is not at the end. Rhymes allow the poem to have a sing-song type of tone, almost childish in nature. Internal rhymes, like “don’t worry, don’t hurry your life,” also lend themselves to this juvenile tone, which hides the serious, more mature