Krushangi Maisuria is the Editor of HamletHub's TeenTimes and a regular contributor to Fairfield HamletHub. This week, she shares a creative writing experiment that intrigued her...
“Autumn Nights”
Last year, I took a wonderful creative writing class at my school. I gained a colossal amount of knowledge on writing and had fun examining the works of different authors. The final project for the class was to research an author or poet we admired. We had to create a presentation about the author and try to create a work inspired by their style. I researched E. E. Cummings and was really inspired by his unique, non-traditional style of writing. I wrote the poem below inspired by his work.
The
lea ves
are tig er
orange
s p e c k l e d
with
green
visible
on
ly by the
pale moon and a couple of
lin ger
i n g
stars
forever
cursed
to compete
with
art if icial
light
fluorescent
white