Wallflowers

Wallflowers by Donna Vorrey is such a cool poem! I really liked this poem because I never really thought too deeply about vocabulary. I usually just skip words that I don't know and pretend they don't exist, but this poem changes my perspective a little. It was really nifty how Vorrey personifies words so that you almost feel bad for all of the words that one usually pays no mind to. Another thing about this poem is that as I finished reading it, I was curious to read some of her other poems to see if she actually uses higher vocabulary like she says she wants to in the poem.

Except, someone has to use almost all of the words because someone came up with them didn't they? Still, this poem makes me want to pick up a dictionary because there are some cool words out there i'm sure. I probably won't think of the words the same way that Vorrey does, but it would still be cool to learn some new words. Vorrey can't use all of the words that exist.

I also kind of found it funny that Vorrey wrote a poem about words, because you write a poem using words and she wrote it about how she wanted to use more words. In reading this poem, I found it strange that she wrote about how she felt bad for all of the words that no one uses but she only drops a few "orphan" words in the actual poem.

This poem had a couple of layers and struck up a couple of random thoughts in my mind as I read it. It's all okay though because isn't that the point of poetry? To make you think?