What You Call a Norm is a Vacant Dorm

for her.

Norms are bacteria
that ignites hills of
questions…doubts…being left speechless.
It bangs the cerebral
chimes for answers or at least evaluation.
If not…it will corrode the little kid with its lofty imagination.

which she doesn’t roam.

The touch she feels
when she passes something that smells like a norm.
Invisible but well known, she can see it.

that is in the middle of the university for sleepwalkers.

Blindly…
Accepting things,
things such as barriers
how aspirations get shattered
and battered to a disaster cake.
Ready for everyone else to digest
and spoon fed to the brain
generation…2...generation.

she can sense something wrong and goes to her own dorm.

Reviews

[Blissful Sin]

Very different and exciting~~

Glad to visit :D

[topsyturvy]

Something different and interesting. A lovely write! And I agree, very clever, for truly who can define norm?

[Brook]

Very clever, i like it.
You've written this wonderfully. Good Job.

[Donald]

Interesting concept. You approach life with questions, and sometimes you get the answers you seek, but then there are those questions left unanswered. Everyone has their own answers for these. Nice work.

[Dayran]

An assessment of issues to find a word to describe the quality of life ... is sometimes impacted by our own exhaustion of the issues ... especially as we pursue them with some dedication and hope. Its turns into a cat and mouse game ... and we wonder sometimes what's it all about. Your poem reminds me of these.

[Einstein Noodle]

don't let me get going on about our colleges and profs these days!
there is hope that she senses something wrong ... dashed as she goes back to her dorm ... aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgh!
E.

[Leslie Philibert]

I like form in poetry, and this impresses with the clever structure !

[wordman]

well you paint a picture here of wonder

[Frieda P]

Oddly appealing....it's a unique read.