Chosen as an introductory hike in Colorado, we hiked the Garden of the Gods on May 18th. The Garden of the Gods is a park of unique and massive red metamorphic and sedimentary rock formations, located just outside Colorado Springs at an elevation of 6,500 feet above sea level. The rocks, surrounding vegetation and looming mountains on the horizon inspired the day's two poems.
Looking Upon Mount Harvard is a Petrachan sonnet, which is the type of sonnet that preceded Shakespeare. It is a very formal form, following the rhyme pattern "abba abba cdecde"
For a Short While is an Ars Poetica poem. This form, first introduced by Horace, is where the author develops a poem to illuminate what poetry is. In essence, it is a poem about what a poem should be.
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