She refreshed the webpage again;
unlaced, her crisp gym shoes asked
stilly for her putrid feet.
Madness! Oh! An A, an A!
“Sister, forget it! Come, let’s run!”
Sighing, she put on her shoes,
unabashedly shut down
her dead computer, and ran.
….
Copyright 2011 by Jessica Anne McLean. All rights reserved. File Sharing is Encouraged.
Posted under the “Ad Lib” Home Page on May 6, 2011:
“Awaiting Her Final Grades” is a new semi-perfect sonnet I just published this month! It is designed around the story of Punchinello by Max Lucado and 1 Samuel 16:7. I also drew inspiration from “Seasons of Love” from the classic musical, Rent and my own personal experience of waiting to receive my own final grades this semester. The same thing always happens every semester: I have to wait an extraordinarily long time to see what I got, finally, in each of my classes. And, then, when the grades finally do appear, every effort I put into my grade seems to always get lost in translation. All that remains is a letter (that society judges you by). It ‘s not fair really, as I’ve tried to express here, because as 1 Samuel 16:7 says: “But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” Thus, the message is: quit worrying about your grades/”grades”. Go run the race God has set out for you and don’t look back at what other people think of you; truly, there is honor in that.
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Welcome to The Rose! This is my literary corner of the internet, dedicated to all things creative writing. Here is where I keep a collection of my work. This includes everything from poems to short stories to writing tips, aka my collection of AD-Libs. I hope you enjoy what I have written here and are able to relate to my work. But ultimately, I hope this site inspires you to love writing as much as I do!
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Most recently published: “Red is the color” (Erythropsia), a prose poem in response to Esther Chilton’s prompt, “Red”, and “Haiku on dirt”, a collection of five haiku on the topic of dirt
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