Spring Nights

Held captive by my computer screen

I look up

Notice where I am

In a room I sit

The air is warm and filled with the smell of lavender

Colors vibrant

There she sits across the room

Her smile, never ending

Her eyes, fetching

Her presence, inviting

There I sit across the room

Typing away

Finishing never-ending papers

Hands aching from the endless taps and clicks

There she sits across from me

Drawing away

Face deep inside her little world

There I sit in silence

Like a prisoner

Cuffed to my laptop

There she sits with glee

Like a child

She giggles and laughs

Free of worry and care

I tear away from my electronic captor

As if compelled by some unearthly presence

I sit next to her

Caught by her gaze like a deer 

Out of the brightness of her smile

I am struck

A light exist in Spring by Emily Dickinson

Enjoy this beautiful poem by Emily Dickinson

A light exists in Spring

Not present on the year

At any other period—

When March is scarcely here

A color stands abroad

On solitary fields

That science cannot overtake

But human nature feels.

It waits upon the lawn,

It shows the furthest tree

Upon the furthest slope we know;

It almost speaks to me.

Then, as horizons step,

Or noons report away,

Without the formula of sound,

It passes, and we stay

A quality of loss

Affecting our content,

As trade had suddenly encroached

Upon a sacrament.

To the Moon by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Here is short symbolic poem by Percy Shelley

Art thou pale for weariness

Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth,

Wandering companionless

Among the stars that have a different birth, —

And ever-changing, like a joyless eye

That finds no object worth its constancy?

What is it good for?

A poem is good for expressing yourself through the use of symbolism and experience. The hardest part about writing a symbolic poem is finding the right words to describe the symbol. What made writing more difficult was beginning to write the poem. Personally I thought I would not be able to come up with a poem because multiple ideas would pop into my head. The idea of peace is usually seen as a dove or the peace sign. So I thought about the idea of inner peace. One idea would pop into my head then another. Eventually I was able to take both ideas and combine them. I believe I did really well at writing a symbolic poem. I just need more practice.