Poetry “If You Forget Me,”

This poem is a love poem.  It is called “If You Forget Me,” He is writing to her, saying that everything leads him to her.  But if she doesn't love him back, he knows it will be impossible to get to her.  So he will quit, and move on to go to another island of love.  He wants her to know that he will never forget her, unless she forgets him.  He needs to know that she is looking for him too, and its not just a one way street, that they are in this together, and forever.
It's a beautiful love poem that is way easier to understand than some of these others, but it still has a very deep meaning.  Love has to go both ways, or it doesn't exist at all.

Poetry “We Real Cool,”

Here is another poem that I read, and since it's so short, I will put it down below.

THE POOL PLAYERS.
SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.

We real cool. We
Left school. We

Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We
Die soon.

This poem is actually pretty dark.  It starts off fun and loose.  By the time it gets to the end, it is very sad, and dreary.  It escalates so quickly that you never see that ending coming.  But I think that is what it is trying to portray.  How short life really is.  You might think you are cool, and you are totally different than everyone else by leaving school, and staying out all night, but eventually every one will die.  I think it's saying not to waste your life doing stupid things.

poetry “He Would Never Use One Word Where None Would Do,”

So, I decided to take a break from divergent, I just wasn't getting as into it as I thought I would.  So I have been looking at some poetry over the past few days instead.  This poem that I read was called “He Would Never Use One Word Where None Would Do,” Philip Levine.  It was a very cool poem, I definitely recommend going to the link and checking it out.  It seems to be about 2 guys, one older than the other, and he seems to have figured out that one of the best things you can give or receive is silence. Its kind of hard to understand.  Post in the comments on what you think it might be about.

He writes about a crisis in this poem.  But he doesn't specify what the crisis was.  It also said it was in May of '97.  So I researched about the spring of '97 a bit and found that the only crisis was in Asia.  Nowhere near where they are.  They are in New York, I know this because of the restaurant that they ate at.  It is in New York.  Maybe he has a personal crisis.  I wonder if there is something wrong with this older man. Maybe in some way, "he" isn't a man, maybe its an object that he is describing to make it sound like a man. Really the only person who knows for sure is Philip Levine.