Poetry Response 5- Wallflowers by Donna Vorreyer

Seeing as I'm really not in a deep, significant, poetic mood, The Wallflowers was a perfect poem to look at this week. It's really a good poem, but for different reasons than most the poems I enjoy. This poem isn't meant to define life's purpose or change the world's paradigm. It is simply a clever little poem meant simply to say something in a witty manner. She uses clever metaphors; her words flow together quite well. The author is commenting on the decay of decent language. As time goes on, our language becomes more and more impaired. Strangely enough, that was on my mind quite a bit this summer... hence the title of my blog. The author is just wondering why. Why do we have such wonderful words and let them go to waste? Why do we use select words over and over again, until the word becomes simply a word. I don't know why Donna Vorreyer, but if I figure it out, I'll be sure to publish a poem on it!