Teacher Kelsey Voeller asked her students to read Sylvia Plath’s poem “Lady Lazarus,” highlight powerful words and use three of them in a positive poem. She shared the following with The Monitor.
Numbers
Number 1
It was an accident
She burned my heart out of love
She manages to make us vanish and feel like we are alone
Number 2
I am amused by her beauty
Number 3
It’s a miracle but at first
It was just an accident
– Matthew Travis
It’s a Miracle
I’m done
It’s a miracle
I made a comeback
I have a changed heart.
Now I’m smiling when I look at rocked seashells
It’s a miracle that people don’t underestimate me anymore.
– Andrew Tillery
Heart of Gold
Again the enemy is not made of ash and hell,
It is made up of a heart of gold.
This flesh and bone a theatrical art.
The pearls are a paperweight on me.
– Anonymous
I Am Not These Things
They call me Brute
The Enemy
Lucifer
They call me Pure
The golden baby
A Miracle
I am not these things
I am skin and bones
I am a joke
So I laugh at them
Cause I am just me
– David Spencer
Miracle to Vanish
Again I am meant to vanish
A miracle of scars, blood, and hair
I am skin and bone opus, to burn
With nine times to die I choose to live
Not by accident
I was the paperweight
Holding my life together with a string of pearls
It felt like hell but yet I am a miracle
And a miracle survives
Even if Lucifer himself tries to take it by his own will
– Gracie Olds
My Power
Again a walking miracle
My featureless enemy
Will vanish
I rise with power,
I finally feel real
– Sam Zody
My Golden Heart
I again
Featureless, and underestimates
Tease at the idea of a heart
My heart of pure gold
Underestimated and free as the air
– Anonymous
