dVerse Poets Poetics

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized



The poem I would like you write is about the end of something: the end of a season, a relationship, a story, a letter, a journey, a dream, a life, the world, etc. You can write in any form, rhyming or not; just make sure it ends in one of the ways described below – and let us know which you chose and why.

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I chose number 5 by T.S. Eliot because I think it fits well with the USA Today:

Everyone yells their opinions

Speaking from a known dominion

Whether a podium draped in a flag

Or a cardboard box on the main drag

Our voices disappear in the throng

Some telling others they are wrong

I’m guilty of this, I speak out

I try to explain what I’m about

But no one cares

And no one dares

To object to my face

It all seems a race

To end all the old freedom bells’ that rang

“And the world ends in a whimper rather than a bang.”

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Tuesday Poetics: Endings

16 thoughts on “dVerse Poets Poetics”

  1. You sure nailed the moment you are in, indeed an ending with a whimper – which begs the question, why do we put up with all the nonsense of election and politicking in the first place?

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    1. Probably…how much worse than making up ridiculous stories for the mere “fun” knowing it’s a false statement that has already caused suspicion and harm to children?

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  6. That was a good idea, Chery, taking the Eliot line, an ending to springboard into your poem! American elections are different to British ones, although politicians do have some things in common, particularly yelling opinions. I agree that ‘our voices disappear in the throng’ and that no one cares.

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