Sunday, August 18, 2013

The Forest of Hands and Teeth Acrostic Poem


The Happy Booker is currently hosting a giveaway challenging participants to come up with an acrostic poem (acrostic poem: fancy terminology for a poem in which the first letters of each line put together spell a word or words) featuring their favorite vampire or zombie book. 
For my poem I chose The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan, writing the poem from the point of view of the protagonist, Mary. In the novel, Mary keeps a photograph of a girl at the beach during pre-apocalyptic times, dreaming that one day she might also see the beach - I took inspiration from this :)

Trapped.
Here in this sad small town, until
Everything changed.

Find me a way
Out of this maze.
Running and running.
Endlessly
Searching.
Twists and turns, lead me to the
Ocean.
Foamy waters and salty air.

Only a bit farther til
Freedom.

Hoping.
Abandoning all that I know.
No turning back.
Driven by the image of a clear blue sea,
Searching.

Another day passes,
No more paths to follow.
Do I dare to open the gate?

Tearing through the forest,
Exposed.
Everything around me a vivid blur:
Thrashing and tumbling,
Hastening towards the sandy shore. 

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