In this area, I introduce a poem that I created and the explanation of every aspect and detail that goes into the poem to tell a theme or message.

Here is my original poem

Wary Well-being

By Ryan Wells

Every day we sit,

afraid to leave the womb

and everything we carry with it.

Our gentle abode,

in danger at night,

at crisis in day,

my home like a mother

that carries her child

through a bed of hot coals.

We cannot feel

the burning sensation,

but we sense it.

As our nostrils flare,

as soot floats to our pale skin

at a world caught a blaze

searing the eyes.

Our shell surrounding us

somehow survives the onslaught.

While we in our shelter

listen selfishly to the disaster

that ensues around us

Where do we keep ourselves,

as we cannot leave

the sanctuary we call ours

and the place we call home

And here is my fullest explanation of the behind the scenes of the poem:

In “Wary Well-being” I am exploring the feeling of skepticism through the idea of sharing with others. In “Wary Wellbeing”, the narrator voice can be voices of not only myself as an author, but the reader as well. Having a narrator that appears as yourself empowers the concept statement because it allows an audience to not only relate to the poem, but also to enforce why sharing a home (or maybe just simple objects) with others can be seen as suspicious. Since you are the one who is experiencing the “burning sensation” and “ground caught a blaze”, the audience are the ones who feel the tension of the cautions that potentially await them. In the poem I also used emphasis on the senses to involve the audiences feelings with the sense of skepticism. I used phrases that engage feeling, “As soot floats to our pale skin”, as well as sight, “ a ground caught a blaze, searing the eyes” and smell “as our nostrils flare”. These are all used in order to gather a greater intensity towards the metaphor of skepticism. The descriptions following the second and third stanzas are all metaphors for the view of skepticism. We see the danger, but we aren’t experiencing, but we know that it may come at some point. As described when it  says “in danger at night, at crisis in day, my home like a mother that carries her child through a bed of hot coals.”. This develops an emotion for the “character” that is bundled inside the womb and carried across dangers. However, when the reader realizes the character is themselves, they then realise the skepticism that they face over their possessions. The line breaks and stanzas are also an important aspect to my poem. The line breaks separate the emotions that one feels, and makes the description feel like an ongoing list of terribly suspicious views. It strengthens the idea that our skepticism involves lists of cautions that we go over and tell ourselves to stop from sharing with others. The stanza placement also divides the description of the metaphor, to the areas in which we realise what our home means to us. For example, stanza 3 describes the feeling of skepticism as a metaphor, while stanza 4 describes how impossible it is for us to give up our homes and accept the oncoming cautions.