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FOOTPRINT ON YOUR HEART
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FOOTPRINT ON YOUR HEART
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Vol XCIII, No. 311
by Gary Lenhart
Literary Terms
Gary Lenhart
- Free verse poem
- Personification: "howling gales", "fold winter away"
- Conceit
- Caesura
- Hyperbole
- Imagery: "encrusted boots, children’s mittens, scratchy scarves", "a chill so numbing", "icy mitts", "breaths stab"
Meanings of Footprint on Your Heart
Someone will walk into your life,
Leave a footprint on your heart,
Turn it into a mudroom cluttered
With encrusted boots, children’s mittens,
Scratchy scarves—
Where you linger to unwrap
Or ready yourself for rough exits
Into howling gales or onto
Frozen car seats, expulsions
Into the great outdoors where touch
Is muffled, noses glisten,
And breaths stab,
So that when you meet someone
Who is leaving your life
You will be able to wave stiff
Icy mitts and look forward
To an evening in spring
When you can fold winter away
Until your next encounter with
A chill so numbing you strew
The heart’s antechamber
With layers of rural garble.
A lot of people walk in and out of your life
at different times and some leave a bigger
mark then others.
People who hurt you teach you important
lessons so that you'll be prepared for further
heartbreak.
What We learned
By Charlie Masterson
Shannon Gros
Dylan Amico
We learned that poetry can be deep and have important meanings that may actually apply to your life.
Poetry can be read as if its a story rather than just a complicated poem.