Erasure Poem using Rainer Maria Rilke’s “For the Sake of a Single Poem” -- poetry by Celine Ellis

amount to so little too early in your life.

gather sense and sweetness. 

at the very end, you might see many cities, many people and Things,

think back to unexpected encounters, days of mystery, whom you had to hurt, so many difficult transformations

You must have memories of love. light?

dead memories?

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Celine Ellis is currently taking a poetry class at her school, and this course has prompted her to experiment with poetry more during her free time. Beyond reading and unpacking poems, she has written a few erasure poems and stories about her life!