Chris+Sestina

Sestina Poem

As I watch the contour Of the sky change, I can see a haze Drifting by. The joyful Clouds reside in the darkness. My creative Mind imagines. Ecstatic, I reach for my pencil, to draw something constructive.

Over time my constructive Piece of work becomes clear. The contour Becomes more defined. I am ecstatic. As I look out into the haze, I think of something creative, To make my art work joyful

As the clouds move in their creative Ways. I notice there is nothing constructive About it. The clouds are creative, And have no limits. Dark shades of contour Change to light. The haze, Is starting to reside. I feel ecstatic.

The clouds also look ecstatic, But the haze starts to drift back in, making the joyful Clouds shrink. The ominous haze Becomes larger. The constructive Landscape seems to fade away. The deep contour Of mountains is now unseen. But the clouds are creative.

The clouds move in creative Ways. They seem to become ecstatic As they drift through the sky. The changing contour Can easily be seen as joyful. The clouds seem to roam around the constructive Scenery. Then from the sky rays of sun start to beat through the haze.

All through the sky the sun shines through the haze. Leaving the creative Clouds to push back through the sky. The constructive Rays of sun punch through as if they were ecstatic I smile in a joyful Way, and observe the haze quickly changing contour. I wonder how the contour of the haze Changed so quickly. The joyful and creative Shouts could be heard from the ecstatic clouds, and still they were not constructive.

Compare this piece of work to another piece of work. Do you notice similarities? Differences? How has your thinking or writing or reading improved between the two pieces? I compared this piece of work to the "my words" poem and i found that they were very different, not only in content and structure but also in the way i wrote. This was obviously because i had to follow some rules for this poem and use certain words in certain places, but even so i still found some similar ideas in these two poems. In this poem i talk about clouds, and the sky, and darkness, these things all represent sort of my feelings. And in the previous poem i had been talking about myself, so the qualities come out in both poems even thought they are very different. I think my writing about stayed the same because these assignments were in close succession.

How did you complete this piece of work? What was the assignment? What did you want to create? What were the steps you took to complete it? And did it come out the way you intended? I completed this work through some deep thinking and creativity. The assignment was to create a certain type of poem only using a set of words given to you. You also had to use the words throughout every verse and in certain places. Well some of the steps i took were thinking beforehand about what words needed to be used and where. I also had to plan accordingly to all the words i had to use because if i didn't everything would have come out all jumbled and not making sense. I think this poem is one of my favorites because it really is interesting and im proud of it because it took some effort to get everything to match up.

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