This Poem is
about Phillippe Petite fulfilling his dream to tightrope between the twin
towers in New York. My ideas came straight from my active notes I took in class
while watching his story on YouTube. You'll see that in my poem I use a lot of
his own descriptions and feelings that he expressed while explaining his
experience. For my revisions I decided to make some of the quotes italicized lines instead. I also broke up my last stanza into two by making the last two lines
their own stanza.
Boundaries
by
Madison Bridges
He said his
dream was as big as the towers themselves.
It was.
He studied it
for months.
He trespassed it.
He stared at
Wall Street,
1,360 feet high
from it.
He stared from
Wall Street,
1,360 feet up at
it.
“Impossible. I’ll
do it.”
Nine- Seven-
Nineteen Seventy-four.
Easiness.
A two-hundred
foot long air dance.
Simplicity.
Echoes from the
audience of the floating man.
Most beautiful.
The bird’s eye’s
marking his territory.
Security on both
sides of the dream.
Still continuing
to live it for a while longer.
Then the
intuition to close the curtain.
To him it was
essential.
The punishment
wasn’t even a slight worry,
and later
dismissed even.
Life wasn’t considerable without doing this.
Balancing on the boundaries of life’s limits is
where we find ourselves.
I enjoyed reading this poem because the lines were short and straight to the point but also powerful. It really describes the event and allows the reader to feel the intensity of what is going on.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Justin. Your poem was short and concise. It was amazing and it seemed as though you were able to get inside his head, and figure out what he was thinking. Its a balance between Philippe and the crowd below.
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