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Editor's note: Jennika Mullen, our senior intern at Keene State University, shares her original poems and some friends' poems in InDepthNH.org's new column "Poetry Pen" twice a month. Welcome Alyssa.
I am a senior at Keene State College, majoring in English writing and minoring in multimedia journalism. This poem is about my dead grandpa. We have a special relationship, and this poem is shown through an actual puzzle that I often made during the childhood of Plastic Bear. I was inspired by the sad experience I experienced and used it to commemorate my grandfather, including an important part of the growth of our relationship.
Perfect combination, I hope I can connect. A sluggish yellow bear looked back at me. Since he passed. When I got out of the car and rushed upstairs. you there. You watched me passing by. Stand still, but I know you follow. As I get older and older. Do you know me? Why does the repaired plastic block recognize me? Every time I see you, I will go back. Go back and throw the mashed peas from my dirty high chair on your tiled floor. The tiled floor has been demolished by the real estate. The tiled floor connects the house together. Now belongs to the stranger's house. Go back to pretending on the cat urine-stained carpet. Part of me miss the disgusting lingering fragrance. Going back to the problem of cheating in board games, as you can see on the top of the rotting dark wooden shelf above. One might now be a shelf of firewood, or a nutritious product in a trash can.
Now on a new shelf, you put down your paws. A shelf was filled with old baby blankets and board games. A shelf is filled with memories of his time here. A perfect puzzle? No, you are not. You may look intact like a puzzle. Over the years, one piece has been missing. No, not the plastic block of the man I look up to. Oh, you look at my little bear growing up. I wish he could. This work has been lost for many years, and I began to feel scared. Looking at the heights frantically. Did not look for its hiding place. Many years later, when I looked in the mirror, I had grown up and matured. Oh, bear, I have the piece you lost. I will keep it safe. You learned that you can bear the missing piece, and so am I.
I like this poem and the metaphor of riddles to describe a period of fragmentation and loss. The combination of individual parts means a physical and emotional connection. Putting the puzzle and the memory of the completed image together allows her to reunite with her late grandfather. The strong emotion and the longing for the lost person painted a beautiful picture in her writing, letting readers immerse in her grief. This is one of the reasons why I think poetry is so powerful. It allows others to understand and experience difficult emotions and situations in such a beautiful way. The misery and sadness are perfectly expressed with carefully selected words, and readers can feel the poet's heart poured into every syllable of their writing.
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