to juliet [a project for school that i ended up kicking ass in]

I'm not a poet in any sense of the word. In fact, the term "writer" could very, very loosely describe me. I tell people I write, tell family I want to be a writer (to get those stuck up southerners off my effing back...), but really, I'm just a whiny fifteen year old who can't write for shit. So when, in my Honors English class, we were told to write a sonnet for Romeo and Juliet, I was...well, not happy.

But here's the thing--I kind of rocked it. I mean, its not the greatest thing in the world, definetly not on parr with Shakespeare, but compared with the other kids in my class (who are really more proficiant in the "logical" side of English), it was purdy damn good. So I really wanted to share it with someone who wasn't, you know, grading me, and I didn't want to post it on my writing blog cos no one really reads it. And, you know, some people read this one. Plus, Robby of once upon a book blog/fourteen years is always posting poems and I can get a tad competitive :D

Here we go.

[don't laugh. its Shakespeare, supposed to be corny]

To Juliet

To Juliet, the blood throughout my veins
the air inside my lung
to a name encased in chains
a song my heart has sung

to Juliet, the daughter of mine enemy
the tears down my mothers cheek
to a hell which hath no clemency
ay me! my heart is weak

to Juliet, the name of hopeless love
bright eyes that melt the wary
to my heart, beating through thy glove
and to your own I hide and carry

to Juliet, to life and love and laughter
to only Juliet, and all that lie hereafter

So...tell me what you think?