Winter Poetry: A Little Bit Frozen

I was substitute teaching the other day when the students had an assignment to write a “Found” poem from The Canterbury Tales.  Essentially, that meant that they had a text to pull phrases from and form a poem, about anything.  I just sat there while they worked (they were a good, good class who just delved right in) and thought: wouldn’t that be a fun thing to tackle?  And then I started talking to Anthony here about writing a “Found” poem and what I would do it with… from there, an idea was born.  What if I used the lyrics from Frozen to write my winter poem for this week?  What kind of challenge that would be!  So below is my efforts and it isn’t perfect.  It isn’t even my best work, but it was an interesting experiment and that’s what art is all about.


Hold On and Let It Go

For years I've roamed these empty halls
And it's nothing like I've ever known before
People are asking where you've been
I never see you anymore
They say have courage and I'm trying to

My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around
It's gets a little lonely, all these empty rooms
Not a footprint to be seen
It's funny how some distance
Makes everything seem small
When life gets rough,
I like to hold on to my dream

And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast
Conceal, don't feel, put on a show
Make one wrong move and everyone will know
A chance to change my lonely world
A kingdom of isolation,
And it looks like I'm the queen.

I think some company is overdue
I've started talking to the pictures on the walls
But sometimes I like to close my eyes
Turn away and slam the door!
Let the storm rage on,
The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside
Be the good girl you always have to be

It's agony to wait
But for the first time in forever
At least I've got a chance

The snow glows white on the mountain tonight
The cold never bothered me anyway
We only have each other, it's just you and me
And I know it is totally crazy
To dream I'd find romance
Tell the guards to open up the gate

Here I stand
In the light of day
And I'll rise like the break of dawn
I'll be dancing through the night
I'm never going back,
To the pain of the past
We don't have to feel it any more
The past is in the past!
Let it go

all lyrics belong to Disney, Frozen and their creators.  no copyright infringement intended