My favorite poem I have written so far is a poem called The Uncertainty. It is about someone who has the task of destroying a spider’s web, but then gets caught up in the beauty of it. I think it is my favorite poem because I spent so much time working on it and I think it really is a great example of my best work. Here it is:

The Uncertainty

It hangs there

Glistening in the sun

I notice the patterns for the first time

Intricate spools of string

Such a heavenly home,

For such a bloodthirsty creature.

Really, the house is a piece of art,

Inhabited by a murderer

The vampire has left the web

With its corpses hanging

Suspended in time

With one flick of a twig

I can destroy this haunted house

Sugar coated

Luring in the innocent.

How can such a deathly spider,

Create such an exquisite web?

A delicate design,

That somehow can catch an army

And imprison souls

I have a decision to make

Do I stop the kills

Of the innocent

But also destroy,

This maleficent palace?

A home

A dungeon

An Obscurity

The process of making this poem was long. First, it took me a while to figure out what I wanted to write about. After that, I had a lot of trouble trying to start it. I kept changing it, but soon I found a beginning I liked. Writing the rest of the poem wasn’t too hard, but then came editing. I edited it over the course of five or more days. The last part was creating a title. My last line is An Obscurity and I thought that would be a good title, but I didn’t want to be too repetitive. I then used Thesaurus to find synonyms and it gave me the word uncertainty and I really liked it, because the poem is about being uncertain if the character should ruin the web. I also liked how it meant obscurity too, without me having to use the word.