Poetry

 Night

By: Christelle da Gama

Upon the dark sky

The visual of silence

I lay in warmness 

 

Thoughts 

About:

This poem is basically about my perspective and how I view the night. Going back to the first line of the poem "Upon the dark sky" I was basically talking about, what it says really the blackness/darkness of the clear sky, and then the next part "The visual of silence" was talking about how peaceful and silent the night time is. You know the way during the day when everything is just nosy because there's a lot going on around you, people moving about, things being moved around. But at night it's the opposite everything is just so still and quiet to the point where you can actually start to see the silence. And finally, the last part "I lay in warmness" just really talks about laying in comfort in your own bed under the covers and how that's the only time you really get to do that.

Idea:

When writing this poem I didn't really have to put much thought into it. what I mean by this is I didn't have to actually sit down and brainstorm ideas like I did for my first few poems. it all just came to me as I was laying in bed one night so I thought it would be a good idea to make it into a poem. it doesn't really have a specific meaning to it, it's all about how I felt in that moment.

Likes:

I really like how short and simple this poem is. It doesn't give away too much yet you can sort of guess what the poem is about. When I read this poem it sort of gives me this warm/cozy vibe and that's what I was trying to go for when I was writing this poem. Although it's not perfect it did inspire me to read and write poetry more.

Dislikes:

I don't have many negative thoughts towards this poem however, I did find the breaking it down to make it into a Haiku process difficult. This was my first attempt at writing a Haiku and most of the time I just found myself trying to change words around to make the five seven five synonym rule. I feel like that kind of took the fun and creativity out of it. If I were to write this poem again I probably wouldn't attempt to make it into a Haiku but maybe a short free verse.

Concept:

As I already had an idea in my head of how I wanted the poem to sound. I knew I wanted to go with a peaceful/warm concept. I was really thinking of the difference between day and night, although I didn't possess that in the poem it was what I was thinking when writing it.