Locket - Poems about Objects

Remembering

by Amy LV

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Students - Today's poem is, once again, simply about an object.  I adore lockets.  They go along with all kinds of old mysterious things that give me dreams and wonders: graveyards, old buttons, bones, books that smell good, shells, bottles in interesting shapes...  I've admired the rhyme locket/pocket for some time, and today it rose in my mind as I sat at my desk, looking at all of its cubbyholes.  Writing in my notebook, I jotted,

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Then, the poem just started showing up on the page, line by line.  You will see that I ended up shortening the line breaks when I moved to typing the poem.  This switch from handwritten first drafts to typed later drafts is very useful for me.

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Pay close attention the objects that inspire you.  There are poems and stories in things.

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