Today's guest poet has been a guest on my blog before. Ellie Terry is a talented poet and author who shared with us last year a little helpful advice about writing in rhyme. Since then, Ellie has sold her very first book, a middle grade verse novel titled FORGET ME NOT, which will hit the shelves in March 2017. That's less than a year from now. Not sooo long to wait, right?
Ellie has decided to share a deleted poem from one of the drafts of FORGET ME NOT.
Ellie has decided to share a deleted poem from one of the drafts of FORGET ME NOT.
RESPECTABLE
Throughout
the next three days,
I
manage to be
respectable
to
Beatriz.
Respectable
when
she snores all night.
Respectable
when
she accidentally
drops
my toothbrush in the toilet.
Respectable
when
Reno takes us bowling
and she
cheats.
Respectable
that's
me.
© Ellie
Terry
I love this poem because, even though it's unclear who the narrator is, or who Beatriz is, or what the relationship between the two is, it IS clear that the narrator is unhappy about her current situation. She comes across as a little sassy, don't you think?
Thank you for sharing this poem with us, Ellie!
About Ellie:
Ellie Terry writes heartfelt contemporary fiction for middle-grade readers, and funny poetry for all ages. Her middle-grade debut, FORGET ME NOT, a free verse novel about a girl with Tourette syndrome, will be published Spring 2017 by Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan. She lives in southern Utah with her husband, three kids, two zebra finches, and a Russian desert tortoise.
Follow Ellie on Twitter: @ellieterrybooks
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