Patsy Pineda (’14) is a senior English major from Dallas, Texas. Here are two of her poems. Patsy wrote the first poem, a sonnet, during her the Advanced Poetry Workshop last spring and she wrote the second poem while abroad on the Carleton English Theater and Literature in London program. Patsy will be participating in Creative Writing Comps this winter.
Digging
Suppose a hole could take one to China,
Could I dig the deepest hole to reach you,
Like from Lima to the Carolinas?
I would not be foolish; to make it through
I would carry a compass and a map
With the finest shovel and a flashlight
And work continuously to end up
Wherever you may be, in day or night.
Suppose a hole could take you anywhere,
Would the world suddenly become porous?
One giant honeycomb of travelers
Calling for directions, like a chorus?
It could eradicate all lovers’ fears
Of being divided by hemispheres.
Spring Showers in London
The sun is now gone
And every creature knows
Here comes the rain in London town.
Unforgiving to the Spring
‘Tis not its most lovely season
Yet could it be for that reason,
“April showers, will bring May flowers”
So those who Spring is rain say.
Oh! Would that melancholic spell
Of rain, rain, go away
Have some hope of working,
I would sing it every day.
Still, I will admit
I have been charmed away
In hearing rain fall on a window panes,
And when the clouds do part,
When the sun makes its presence once again,
Never is the refusal to go walking
So weak, and the urge to feel rays
Upon skin so striking.
Never does London seem so blessed
As it does when the rain has left.