Hi, I wrote this in high school but it still feels applicable to how I feel sometimes. The song is a tune I like but I wouldn't suggest listening while reading.
I am not really into poetry but I wasn't feeling too well yesterday, mentally. So when I was in class writing this poem I had a lot of negative and conflicting feelings. I put this poem out on wattpad because I just wanted to let it out there. If anyone can relate and it helps them feel an better and less alone then good for you, I'm glad.
The parent poem of my poem is, "I am Learning to Abandon the World" by Linda Pashtan. Feel free to look it up, I got it off PoetryOutLoud.org for an English assignment. I am going to put the first quarter of the poem up on here, if you find yourself enjoying the poem then by all means look it up.
I am Learning to Abandon the World
I am learning to abandon the world
before it can abandon me
Already I have given up the moon
and snow, closing my shades
against the claims of white
And the world has taken
my father, my friends.
I have given up melodic lines of hills
moving to a flat, tuneless landscape
Okay here's the tricky part for the golden shovel assignment, we were supposed to choose a part/line of the story that appealed to us or that we found striking. I chose the first two lines and pieced them as one. My teacher said this was okay. Then we were supposed to put each word of the line we chose in the very beginning or end of each line in our poem. I chose to put each word at the end of each line in my poem.
So my poem derived from Pashtan's poem turned out like this:
My Golden Shovel Poem
When life gives me lemons, I
realize how depressed I really am
I'm supposed to be at school learning
But instead sometimes I'm just not able to
However I wonder what will happen if I decide to abandon
Everything I have come to know, the
Goals I set for myself to do something great in the world
I don't think I ever used to think this way before
But sometimes I don't think I can handle it,
If anything I guess I still need to try as hard as I can
Because there are some things you just can't abandon
So everyday I will try to get through whatever life gives me
Excerpt line: I am learning to abandon the world before it can abandon me
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Golden Shovel of Learning to Abandon
कविताThis is a poem that I had to write in English class yesterday. It is a 'golden shovel' of the poem "I am Learning to Abandon the World" by Linda Pashtan. It's just something that came to me in class. A golden shovel is a poem that is derived from o...