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The Star-Gazer, Jennifer Kean
The Star-Gazer, Jennifer Kean
The Hilltop Review
“The Star-Gazer” is modeled loosely on the Old English poem “The Wife’s Lament.” This medieval elegiac composition expresses beautifully the tensions that attend unrequited or abandoned love. It is awkward: there are clearly contrasting sentiments for the absent lover. It is frustrated and distressed: the reasons for the lover’s truancy are unclear to the reader, and presumably to The Wife. It is confused: The Wife does not understand why her partner has put physical and emotional distance between them, and the nature-imagery reflects how open-ended heartbreak can suspend, or even immobilize, personal growth. In my composition, I experiment with the …
3.14.21 - Spring, Clayton Meldrum
3.14.21 - Spring, Clayton Meldrum
The Hilltop Review
This poem, written in one sitting on a Sunday morning, is a reflection not only on the transition between the physical seasons, but on the condition of the authors heart, moving from a personal season of hurt and cold bitterness (winter), on the way towards one of happiness and warmth (summer). But there is the season in between - spring.
Age Of The Universe, Sydney Sheltz-Kempf
How To Be Held, Andrew Collard