Boxed Poetry: A Rose of Dreams

January 2021/Vol. 2/ Issue 1

Boxed Poetry A Rose of Dreams

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I do not regret last summer

my father asks why

One of my largest regrets

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my father asks why as he sits down at the table he folds his hands together & pauses—

he asks why i don’t speak of George Floyd— but, i do. not in words or sentences but in long-winded soliloquies with myself—

One of my largest regrets in life

Is not speaking out.

I can be silent.

Words are nothing to me.

They shred like the bed covers I’m praying will hold What if they don’t And I find long strings Of what ifs Laying at my feet.

Notes In my bed is where I do a lot of thinking. I always get those “conflicting thoughts” to mull over at night, which is why I have a journal next to bed. This was one of the few poems that I actually first wrote in a notebook before typing it up.

I do not regret last summer

Senryu Sonnet: Song of Man’s Remorse love's ending pulsates I breathe in the chaos & falter mid-step between my last step & the next leap, I await poetry that shows I do not regret letting the fire eat the page as if, it didn't matter I am still beating I still falter from regrets I am the ashes let me begin again.

Notes This poem was written to reflect three themes, I love, I inspire, I am. The first stanza represents “love”, as well as the “end”, the second stanza is “inspire” and the third stanza is about “who I am”. The fourth stanza sums up the first three stanzas and the fifth stanza represents the beginning of the end. It’s written in a form called Senryu Sonnet.