Evocotive, YCA Poetry Challenge, Day 3

Young Chicago Author's daily poetry challenge Day 3 came with a challenge that I did not expect to be as difficult as it was. In fact, I was so excited about the day 3 challenge that I decided my high school students and I were going to do it as a classroom activity.

Day 3 was this - write a ghazal, a traditional middle eastern poem. The students and I researched this together. We could find plenty of examples, but completely understanding how the poem is written -- repeated lines, rhyming scheme, themes -- proved to be a challenge to all of us.

So, I am not certain that what you find below actually meets the challenge for day 3 of the poetry competition. For better or worse, I present to you:

Evocative

Reading the instructions, the poem ought to be evocative

Dictionary says, "bringing strong images, memories or feelings to mind" see? evocative

Like the green light across the sound from Gatsby's mansion, pre-evocative

Daisy's dream to be more than she is, more like what she was but really what she has never been, to be evocative

Looking at my life -- synonym -- reminiscent, suggestive, redolent, a cree, evocative

From one to another like grass to a tree, evocative

Sometimes, I wish to be more free, evocative

Others I feel it would be better to be trapped than to flee, evocative

Sometimes I nod just to agree, evocative

But contradictions are sometimes how I'm me, evocative

Shining brightly, flowing like the sea, evocative

Sometimes surrendering, child's pose, take a knee, evocative

Embracing all that I am as a she, evocative

But remembering to honor the he also in me, evocative

Expecting that sometimes Karma is like a fee, evocative

Pour a glass, I like Moscato better than Chablis, evocative

Removing writer's block might take Passion tea, evocative

Goal: to be my own emcee, evocative

I am my own queen bee, evocative

With me, for me, by me, evocative

My own sanctuary, evocative

Home to myself, my kids, my friends, a partner, grown to the 100th degree so mote it be, evocative

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