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Ellen Hopkins
I want to whisper gifts of wisdom, fill your vacant reservoir with a downpour of truth— my truth, my views. But if I slide into your own perfect point of view, every need fulfilled in the nook of an elbow, beneath a generous breast, I wonder if wisdom isn't truly instinct, and something relentlessly stolen away. I want to promise you peace, life filled with possibilities, absent fear and conflict beyond your ability to sidestep. But as you fall asleep to a lullaby of violence on the evening news, you grasp my thumb with tiny trusting fingers, and I understand all hope of future sanity curls within your hands. I want to give you God, swaddle you in omnipotence, blanket you with splendor, rock you on wings of seraphim. But when you fix me with blue slate eyes, I tumble down into those cobalt depths, misty corridors of innocence, and I stumble over God, born into this world again, inside of you.
In Welcome
CONVERGENCE Eyes fall into eyes--green, he thinks, but no, more the amberflight of summer, untethered; blue, she considers, but not quite, like the sky, silver, one blink before light. In that solitary measure, universes collide.
Fifty-three year old novelist and poet, Ellen hopkins has written several popular poems as well as 20 nonfiction children's books and 5 novels that she wrote in verse. She releases more poems as she wishes and has three more novels, Tricks, Fallout, and Perfected which are to be out this fall, the fall of 2010, and the fall of 2011. She bases all of her poems and novels off of her own experiences as well as those of her family, friends, and fans.
This poem is written in free verse. It also uses sensory imagery to describe the color of the eyes. It also uses persoinifation - "...the flight of summer".
In Welcome is written in free verse. Each stanza begins using the phrase "I want to..." and an alliteration. Antithesis is also used ike when she saus "a lullaby of violence". Symbolism is also used a lot in the third stanza.
