Whew.

I just turned in the second set of five poems for Creative 

Writing. I have basically done nothing but write for the

last three days, which has actually been really great.

Here is what my work area looked like by the time I was 

done last night. I thought it was hilarious/pathetic. I think

I've eaten every meal but one sitting right there.  But I got 

all five done to my satisfaction, and now I'm posting them for y'all . 

Explanatory note:

I didn't post the fifth poem, "Song," because I posted it a while back, and I've only made a couple of revisions to it.

Our requirments this time were to turn in a ballad, a villanelle, a found poem, and two of a form of our choice.  A villanelle is a form where you have two lines that repeat in a set pattern. In some modern villanelles, the two lines may have some variation, while basically saying the same thing. This is what I did in "In the DPS Waiting Room," my villanelle. 

The technical definition of a ballad is that it's a longer poem that tells a story in four-line stanzas with a specific metrical and rhyme pattern.  The first few stanzas of "Attempted Ballad"conform to this pattern, but the rest creates variations on the pattern. You'll understand why when you read it.

A found poem is a poem created from a non-poetic text. In other words, you take a piece of writing that was not meant to be poetry, and you recreate it as poetry. I did mine from an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary. 

I've posted the poems below. Now I need to do some housekeepingish things. Desperately.