This poem is based off Wallace Steven's Poem, "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," in which he describes a blackbird in thirteen different ways. This poem follows that concept, but instead follows the escapades of a single piece of rope.
I. Among the aisles of Home Depot
Lies the still threads
Of a singular piece of rope
II. The rope waits patiently
Silent as the light breeze
Excited to be chosen
III. You pull the rope
Attached to the curtain
As you open a new setting
For the stage
IV. Ropes gather together
joining together to make one rope
V. The rope has been
around longer than written history
VI. A rope necklace drapes around his neck
He is flying above the crowd
Like a cloud of menacing terror
VII. How do you expect me
To talk to you
With a rope constricting my throat
VIII. The rope hitting the ground
In circular rhythm.
Children jump to reveal happy lives
IX. The ropes braided chords
Spiral around each other
Like a double helix, they cling
To each other
X.All together
The strength of many
Used to pull the Trojan horse
XI. Rapunzel's long hair is used
To climb up into her tower
Kind of like the rope
Everyone has to climb in gym class
XII. Careful of hangman's rope
It'll use you to heal itself
While it drains your life
XIII. Aisle after aisle,
Row after row,
Until the one section
Where the little rope lay
