Edwin Matthews

3^rd  period

Why I’m Not a Poet

I play sports I’m not supposed

To talk about my feelings

Right?

I’m supposed to be big and

Tough, not soft and writing all

About my feelings right?

Plus I’m not that good at poetry, but

Sports I’m really good at.

Only if I could right my thoughts

Down on a page as well as

I could catch a ball or high jump.

“Come to practice” says my coach

“Practice and you could get a scholarship”

My problem with poetry is that I don’t practice

Like I practice for sports, imagine if I did.

I could be good…. Right

But that is why I’m not a poet.

Why I’m not a Poet Analysis

This poem started off as a conversation poem, but as I went on I realized that I couldn’t really think of a way to put a conversation into the poem I was writing. So what I ended up doing was put random little pieces of dialog into the poem were it fit. Also when I typed it out I changed the format of the poem and decided to center it because I thought I would look nicer.