Rumours
By Jessica M
Should of kept quiet, not saying a word.
It’s a wildfire, burning up each tree
Cracking glass, as its reaching out carefree
Life is extraordinary, doesn’t mean
it will stay the same forever. Where here
lives the good, the greatest, the bad, the worst
There would be an end. There would be nothing
left to burn. Splitting would come to an end.
But what kind end, would it be. No one
In the world gets what they want, and
that is beautiful. Whatever happens
would affect something, actions connected.
You cared, you really did. But telling lies
will only make more lies. The power of
individuals was proven when the
rumours started to spread like fire and glass.
“Rumours” by Jessica M is a closed poem, because it’s sorted into stanzas, and each line is 10 syllables. It has some aspects of an open poem, because not every line rhymes, nor does it always finish the sentence in its line. The poem explores how our actions are interconnected, and how a person can make a change. The poem has metaphors like the fire spreading, and the glass splitting, making more cracks. Which gives it the title, rumours, as they can also spread unstoppably. The line “Life is extraordinary” seems to be inspired from Dead Poets Society, said by Mr. Keating. Another is from the novel, Ready Player One “No one In the world gets what they want, and that is beautiful.” It ties into the poem because of how when something spreads, the end result is not always what you want it to be. The poem seems to be about our actions interconnecting. Like when someone tells a person something, what stops them from spreading the info? After reading it, the tone seems to be giving us an insight into feeling some sort of guilt. How we lack seeing from a different point of view, giving us an unexpected outcome. Maybe the original person who told the second person about it, didn’t except them to tell everyone else, and now they feel guilty of doing so. We don’t know how much impact one person can make.