This is a small poetry club that started as a poetry email exchange between two friends. Our goal is to read a poem everyday, and this blog is one way to help keep us accountable. There is only one valid rule in poetry club: there are no rules in poetry club. Read any poem, in any order, with any or no interactions. You decide. We only suggest you read poetry!
8 Jan: "M&M Stares" by Erin Forrest
a bag of M&M
at me it stares
the gym was lunch
to falter is loss
I like how the M&M's are personified. How they can taunt you while you work and are hungry from substituting lunch with a workout.
Because there isn't a period after stares, I prefer to read it as if the M&M's are saying, "the gym was lunch/ to falter is loss." Maybe they are rooting for the narrator or making an attempt to self preserve.
I like how the M&M's are personified. How they can taunt you while you work and are hungry from substituting lunch with a workout.
ReplyDeleteBecause there isn't a period after stares, I prefer to read it as if the M&M's are saying, "the gym was lunch/ to falter is loss." Maybe they are rooting for the narrator or making an attempt to self preserve.
I, too, love this personification. Trying to doing something good, but feeling the opposite effects, as you mentioned. Nice work!
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