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Samantha Johnson
SAINT LOUIS
After Micah Ballard
Skateboards from to
foreboding times. The
length of one bridge across
the grave stricken bayou.
Samantha Johnson
SAINT LOUIS
After Micah Ballard
Samantha Johnson
WITH NOTICE
After Micah Ballard
Gone behind
the parish gates
left the cobble stones.
Samantha Johnson
WITH NOTICE
After Micah Ballard
Gone behind
the parish gates
left the cobble stones. Comment [S6]: I chose to draw upon
the Louisiana images by referencing the
parish gates and cobble stones. The
Gone before the rise of Rome imagery allowed me to put the reader in
the setting of Louisiana, very much like
the sacred sand had Ballard. The reference helped me to set a
all but flowed. somber tone, which is present in many of
Ballard’s poems.
Comment [S7]: Repetition of words
The steeple point has yet to spin in order to connect themes is why I
as the saints parade choose to start both stanzas with the word
“gone”. This technique is used by Ballard
you force the wind. often and in my poem I employed it in
order to connect the end of time with the
somber feeling expressed in the first
Love powder is almost gone stanza through imagery.
the time ticks down upon the stone
Comment [S8]: Often Ballard chooses
gone without a heart to pawn. images of time ticking down and I wanted
to highlight this in my poem. The idea of
sand and the past is often seen in his
poems and I wanted to mimic this in my
own to help me create theme.
Comment [S9]: I chose to mimic
Ballard’s rhyme scheme used in many of
his poems. In some poems he adds a
rhyme scheme in order to draw the reader
across the page and I chose to do the
same. It allowed me to reinforce the
images I was creating.
Comment [S10]: Voodoo is a large
part of Ballard’s recent poetry and I chose
to highlight this aspect within my own by
referencing the Love Powder brought up
in one of his other poems. I allowed me
to put my own themes into his world and
also helped me with inspiration.
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Samantha Power
I’ve got a
heavy heart and a guilty conscience,
& A different point of view than you.
I hated losing you, like car keys or the camera
that I left on the top of the car that night.
I never meant to break the vase that your mom bought you for
Christmas that year,
before she died.
I’m breaking down the walls that
I built up around you (accidently).
And later, when we watched the moon
shine brightly over the city,
& Listening to it breathe with the
intensity of a marathon runner
I watched your heart break from that girl
who never really cared,
glad that I was there to save you.
I’m sorry that I broke you down,
Made you leave.
This isn’t what we wanted.
What I wanted.
I will always love
You.
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Samantha Power
I’ve got a
Comment [P11]: The line break here
heavy heart and a guilty conscience, and throughout the poem is to show the
structure of Ballard’s “Darrell.”
& A different point of view than you. Comment [P12]: Ballard uses the
informal ampersand when writing,
I hated losing you, like car keys or the camera therefore I used one at the beginning of
the line, as he often does.
that I left on the top of the car that night.
Comment [P13]: I used a weird line
break, because Ballard often uses
I never meant to break the vase that your mom bought you for enjambments in random seeming places.
Jessica Lucas
NECROLYSIS
for S. P.
Snow falling;
cinematic
melting quickly on the fading body
writhing
& twisting
& then forever
still
Hillary Du
DALLIANCE
After Micah Ballard