Thursday, December 16, 2010

Friendly Traditions

In my creative writing class today, we were asked to write a poem about any gift we had ever given or received. This is what I came up with:

Friendly Traditions

A small stack of letters
sits next to my bed,
evidence of a tradition
long between friends.
Every year a new one
is added to the pile,
filled with words of our friendship
that always make me smil.
Always written in the long
weeks before summer
they make the last weeks of school
seem less of a bummer.
While others are signing
yearbooks galore,
my friend and I exchange
words that mean so much more.
And during those moments
when I feel all alonge,
I read all our letters
to feel like I'm home.

Miss M. gave us a challenge to write it in the rhythm of T'was the Night Before Christmas and to make it rhyme. So I know that it's not my strongest work, but I really enjoyed writing it.