Poetry Assignment

Our assignment was to write a poem.

Somehow I had the idea

To divide the lines

Funny,

Leaving a "the"

Dangling at the

End of a line,

Starting the next with

A.

My teacher said my poem wasn't right,

Divided funny like that.

All the excitement I'd felt

Drained,

Leaving the fear

I had done something wrong.

My mom said I had to learn to do it

Right

Before I could try to do something

Different.

I can't say I ever learned to do it right,

But now, when I write a poem

I divide the lines where

Ever I like.

Which doesn't mean

I'm any less scared

I've done something

Wrong.