Last week, Carver students tried their hands at a new type of poem: the ever-powerful ode. Students first heard a reading of “Ode to Cardi B” and my poem “Ode to Ursula.” After a lengthy discussion about who or what in our lives we feel most connected to, students wrote odes to those people they wanted to memorialize in writing. Check out a poem below:
Ode To My Mother
by Lynn P.
To the mother that loved me dearly,
That left the nest before I could
fend for myself,
Think for myself,
So you left your son to fend for two
Too young to buy,
Too young to believe,
I will love you till the day I die,
But you loved me until it hit your system,
my greatest inspiration turned my greatest monster,
I,
Love,
You,
Who left two kids alone to live
with a stranger,
You couldn’t handle it,
So he did,
and he could,
So I cannot,
Hate you,
More than myself.
