Concrete Poem Attempt

Okay I'll admit that the way I write my poems is usually very boring. I center my text on the page and add some stanza divisions. I keep my lines the same length and try to include the same number of lines in each stanza. My preferred rhyme scheme is ABAB.

Well I realized that a lot of the most amazing poems I've ever read played a lot with the formatting. So I decided I'm going to give this a shot. 

Today I wrote a very short concrete poem to help me break out of my boring formatting habits. For those of you who don't know, a concrete poem is formatted in a way where the words make a shape or a picture. It's usually some kind of object or symbol that represents the poem. 

If you're viewing my blog on Goodreads rather than on its actual URL, the formatting will probably mess up. So I'll include the text in an image file as well so you can see what it's supposed to look like. 

Here is the poem just as text:

                                           i
                                    want
                                  to Lick.
                               Every. Drop.
                             of the words
                            from your lips.
                            and drink your
                            voice. but you
                              left and i am
                                  parched.
                          

And here is the image file:

I wanted to make sure that none of the words were cut off. I mean like I didn't want one line to have an incomplete word where half of its letters are in that line and the other half are in the next line. So this took a ridiculously long time to write and wasn't as easy as it looks. Isn't it amazing that the poem that took you 3 seconds to read took me over an hour to come up with?

I also played with the capitalization. In the tradition of Instapoetry, I decided not to capitalize the word "i." I played around with punctuation as well when I wrote "Lick. Every. Drop." 

Oh and by the way, it's supposed to be shaped like a drop of water. 

So I hope it looks like what it's supposed to look like. 

Stay tuned for more poems and stories. I have ideas for a bunch of things and as soon as I can stop procrastinating on my writing, it's over for you.