Wednesday, April 10, 2013

So I had to write a poem about twins...

Bellwork for today's Creative Writing was about twins... and, being a twin, felt the need to write a poem about it.  I don't have to answer the prompts I give my students, but even more than usual, this time I couldn't help myself.  I decided to go the "spatial" route instead of trying to make a rhyme about twinness.  Is that a word... if not, it should be.  So, here is my poem which I dedicate to my older (by two minutes) sister Heather.



     She will not know
 what loneliness is. She
Came
From
 The same exact place
    Just two minutes later
          And
           Thus
         S h e
 Must share. But what
     Else can she do?

Does she really want to
Forever be looking at a
Mirror
Image
When
She’s
W it h
T h e
O n e
Who  shares  her  face,
Her voice, and her DNA?

       Sisters.  Identical,
   Yet uniquely individual.
D o
They
Wear the same clothes?
     Get the same haircut?
           O r
Does
        Each
 Live the life she wants?
     Go her own way?

“To  thine own self  be true,”
Wrote the Bard, but he also
 Wrote
  A  lot
  About
  Twins,
  Maybe
 ‘Cause
 He had
 A pair
 Of ‘em

So maybe  she  can be true
To her ownself while at the
Same
Time
Being true to the
Strange fact that
Another
H A S
Been
Charged with the same duty:
Love your sister as yourself.

Therefore the second,
Not to merely copy the first,
Lives her own life so
That she can uphold
The real    honor of being
Part of a matched set of
Girls          who
Share more
Than  just the
Same    birthday;
They                share a life
Split--  not diminished.

2 comments:

  1. I love this poem and it was very appreciated when shared with a few others where I work.... one who liked it a lot is expecting twin girls, another is a twin with other sets of twins in her family, and the others have a real appreciation of your gift of expressing your thoughts and feelings, as am I, your mom.... so much for anonymous ;)

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  2. Thanks "Anonymous" big grin. Love you, Mom!

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