I explained the town that I'm from. It's a town in Louisville, KY and to me growing up here helped make lousiville a much smaller place than it really is. I tried to use adjectives to describe this person that represented the sense of community that Fern Creek had.
He is not small but yet
He is not big at all
His heart goes out to many
Yet not many know about him
He carries a sense of community every where he goes
People from all around commute to him
For school
For sports
For friends
He was on the rise a few years past
People looked down upon him
Little respect
However he grew with support and determination
He works with everyone
tall short dark light from near from far
He doesn’t conform but accepts
He doesn’t judge but encourages
As he walks about he his greeted with smiles
For one may not recognize that he is him but they recognize
where he is from
He has witnessed tragedy
Tragedy of those he knew very well
But with this he brings togetherness
He allows people to realize home is not a house
Home is a community
He is the light at the end of the day and
You don’t have to go far to find him
As he travels from place to place some make fun of him
He proves them wrong
He shows them what he’s really about not what is perceived
He is better known as the underdog but who doesn’t root for
the underdog?
He has his enemies but they aren’t as hatred as most
Country yet suburban, hood yet classy
There is nothing he hasn’t been or hasn’t seen
People can make there own opinions
But at the end of the day he will continue to prove
That he can’t be stopped
And will produce results far better than his “upper classmen”
Born and raised in the same
Elementary school and high school the same
He branched out for middle school but came right back to
where he belonged
He is belonging
He is comfort
And He is home
I really like your poem! My roommate is from Fern Creek so I could really relate because I've been there before. I liked the sense of community you talked about. Even though Louisville is a huge city, the individual communities are all kind of connected in times of tragedy. I like how you compare Fern Creek to almost an underdog. I think this when you say "but at the end of the day he will continue to prove, that he can't be stopped, and will produce results far better than his "upper classman". To me that means that maybe people don't give Fern Creek enough credit. It also sounds to me like people from this area get judged based on where they're from rather than themselves as people. I can relate to this because my hometown and high school in my hometown were known to other schools as spoiled and snobby, which I don't think is the case at all. It just goes to show that people from different areas are all going to have different views about where you are from, whether its positive or negative.
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ReplyDeleteYou make it clear in your personification that you love Fern Creek, and you set a tone of a person who encounters many challenges, but always faces them. As a result, you provide your person/town with an ethos of integrity. Some of the details you chose create interesting juxtapositions, such as "Country yet suburban, hood yet classy," and these kinds of seemingly incompatible descriptions often characterize places if we're being honest and not trying to oversimplify them. Nicely done!
I really enjoyed reading your poem! You seem like you got into the aspect of the whole Personified poem really well. I like how you made it seem like a person that stands up to the challenges given to them. You really like the way you went with this poem! I loved it, good job!
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