Choe's Poem

I'm not very good at writing poems. Mostly because I feel that poems are less structure based than essays or research papers. Because of this, I decided to write a haiku since haiku's have specific guidelines and it's more straight forward. I think the hardest part of writing this was thinking of words that mean what I want to say and make sense. So, I spent most of my time counting out syllables with my fingers.

The Man on the Wire

An afternoon breeze

shakes the cable that extends

across, edge to edge

On top the towers, 

stood a man who has dreams for

the impossible

He glances across

between him and life he walks.

No hesitation

Little steps to walks

Walking turns into dancing

laying for a break

Time comes to leave

By a signal from nature

he walks off the line

He conquered the world

this act turned him into the

Man on the wire.