Fun for you poetry buffs out there. Pick a book of your favorite poetry off the shelves (anthologies are better). For each question below, flip to a random page and find either a title of a poem or a chunk of the poem that answers the question. Have fun!


1.

Are you a male or female:
"Many days and many hours:
Her hair over her arms and her arms full of flowers."

2.

Describe yourself:
"I am wood -- I write I'm plastic
I write playing my piano
I'm wood I'm plastic"

3.

How do you feel about yourself:
"I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed"

4.

Describe your ex boyfriend/girlfriend:
"I did find the orchard
in a leafless season.
But [he] was not there.
And I was not there.
Dark, and rain in the air."

5.

Describe your current boy/girl:
So be it. I am
a wholeness I'll never know.
Maybe that's the best.

6.

Describe your current location:
"Long since that time I have walked night streets, heel-turn
clicking the stone, and in dark in windows have stared.
Question, quarry, dream -- I have vented my ire on
My own heart that, ignorant and untoward,
Yearns for an absolute that Time would, I thought be prepared,
But has not yet."

7.

Describe where you want to be:
"Down at the docks
Where everything is sweet and inclines
At night
To the sound of canoes
I planted a maple tree
And every night
Beneath it I studied the cosmos
Down at the docks."

8.

Your best friend is:
"Now let the cycle sweep us here and there,
we will not struggle."

9.

Your favorite color is:
"It is the third commonness with light and air"

10.

You know that:
"'God is dead,'
I tell him."

11.

What’s the weather like:
"With wind slicing in from everywhere,
And figures growing small. I may remember
Only a month of this. Or a God's hour."

12.

If your life was a television show what would it be called?
"Tokens"


13.

What is life to you:
"I am unhappy that I am not God,
I talk to myself and listen,
hoping to find in this dialogue
a hint of Him."

14.

What is the best advice you have to give:
"All I called mine
has gone or will go
from its place in the sun.
This we know,
and nothing can be done."

15.

If you could change your name what would it be?
"Rosemary"

That's it.



I'm done hiding.



I will not hide anymore, I am not a coward. I will be the mouthpiece god needs me to be in this world of hate. I will be a warrior. I will take my righteous anger and wield it as a sword - yes, my identity is enough, my love is enough, and so I will embrace it and fight. I am done waiting in silence. Now is the time for action. Move, or I will move you. I will find a way.



If not me, then who?