Unwritten Rhyme

Each of these poems has specific breaks that lead to reader to individual thoughts. In "Backroad," each line is an image in our mind, setting the mood, describing the emotions and leading us down her path of innocence lost to young love and passion. If she extended the lines to one line through the period, we would not pause and visualize and capture what she wanted us to see and feel, we would too easily miss something. In "Mirror," the flow is more erratic, however, the end of each line emphasizes something very important, like in the first line with "I have no preconceptions." We have to linger on the specific traits and she closes many lines with very descriptive words. In "O" each stanza stands alone, describing a unique type of life island that humans create. And yet, sometimes she ends a stanza with the beginning of the next, demonstrating that although we can be an island, we still connect to our surroundings. An island stands all alone, but is connected to the sea, the living organisms on and arround and the weather, so nothing is ever truly isolated.