Poetic Parody

Choice number one.


I have a book of love poems that I ordered through those Scholastic book orders in grade eight. It has an amazing variety of love poems by some well known authors, and now I'm going to use one that I thoroughly enjoyed as a template for my own poem.


Coat - by Vicki Feaver


Sometimes I have wanted
to throw you off
like a heavy coat.


Sometimes I have said
you would not let me
breathe or move.


But now that I am free
to choose light clothes
or none at all


I feel the cold
and all the time I think

how warm it used to be.

I used this poem as a guide for my own poem:


Kitten


Sometimes I have wanted
to cling to you
like a lost kitten.


Sometimes I have said
you were the only
one for me.


But now that you've loved me,
put a choking
collar on me,


I hurt from you,
and all the time I think
how free I used to be.

By: G.L. Schilbe

Sorry for the spacing issues, for some reason I cannot only put one space between lines; but enjoy the poems anyway! :)