A jogger darts by. Green willow fragrance follows, trying to keep up. 

This is a poem that was written by trial Lawyer Karen Kimball. To me I find this particular poem moving because it is really short and simple, it is something that I can relate to, and it paints a really cool nature picture in my mind. I normally don’t like poetry, but when I can understand it, I look at it in a different light.

Karen Kimball is a trial lawyer for starters, so I don’t think that she is the type of poet that makes things so hard to comprehend and use a different language to convey what she is trying to say. I feel that is a good thing to help the audience understand what the poem is even about. For instance if say Shakespeare had written it, I probably wouldn’t have know that is was about jogging.

Another reason why I like this poem so much is that I really like the outdoors and running. I feel that is also another powerful tool in writing is being able to write about something that people in the audience can relate too. It also helps when you can take the words and then see what the writer is talking about.

When I read this poem I get this vividly clear picture in my head of a jogger running up that last hill before their workout is done, and just busting that last hills ass. All the wile the smell, represented by a variety of colors is right behind him trying to keep up. Its what makes some writing so awesome, you can paint that picture from only twelve words.

When writing is powerful to me, it is really easy to understand, I can somehow relate to it so I want to read or listen, and it puts a picture in your head that every time you read it new details come into that picture. That’s is what makes this poem so cool, Kimball leaves so many details out, but when I read it I fill them in and I have this imagine in my mind full of detail.

Here is my own attempt to match the style of Karen Kimball: the bat strikes the ball. Tiny grains of leather fall off, plummeting back down towards the diamond.

 

Kimball, Karen. Commuter page, November 1, 2007. http://www.commuterpage.com