Dangerous Drive
- Casey Bolls
- Mar 7
- 1 min read
Original Completion Date: February 26, 2019
Many of us know what it's like to drive in the Bay Area...especially in rainy weather! This poem describes what that was like for me. I was driving home from a friend's house and it was a little scary, but I thankfully didn't get into an accident.
This poem is called a quadruplet, which means there are four lines in each stanza. Here's what Professor Gubernat had to say about it:
"This clearly struck a chord with the group--perhaps because we see in all the details of a terrifying drive in rainy Bay Area weather, our own freeway nightmares. The rhyme scheme adds to it as less than dire, even a bit self-consciously ironic."
Wow, I wasn't even attempting to bring humor into this poem! I was hoping that it would be taken more seriously and that it would present a moral. Later, I learned that the best poetry doesn't present obvious morals. They may hint at a subtle message, but that's not what I did here. This isn't one of my best works, but I still received an A on it. Let me know what you think: Was it a good idea to make this poem rhyme? Did this poem come off as serious and somber, or does it have a sense of humor? Or both?
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