Entry 6: Poem About Loss

Write a poem about a personal disaster or loss. Structure your poem based on how Anne Bradstreet structured her poem:
-Description of the event
-Remorse over loss
-Remembering cherished things
-Chiding self
-Reminding self of what’s important
-Satisfaction in knowing true reward lies in heaven
Of course your poem will not (necessarily) emphasize the same feelings, but it should have the same basic parts. Try to use inversion at least once, but you do not have to follow a particular rhyme scheme or meter.

• The poem below describes me trying to get some sleep but not succeeding in doing so because of the rain. 

Hitting the window pane,
Fell the rain,
My watch, I glanced,
To see that time,
Has flown by me.
It was three,
In the morning,
The rain it seems,
Has kept me,
From my sleep.


I sighed in my head,
Thinking of tomorrow,
Another full day ahead.
This thought tires me,
For I have not slept.


But tomorrow is a new day,
A day with activities,
And things to do,
To keep me from,
This lasting boredom.


Therefore I shall not,
Mind this drumming rain.
And shall instead,
Just go back to bed.


What I should do,
At this certain instance,
Is to keep what I can,
Of my remaining hours,
To sleep till,
Waking hours.