Rhymes of an Irrelevant Teenage Girl
Hope
A Variant of Marching On?
Against the gloomy gurgle of green seas
Where strong waves pull us in over our heads,
And the weeds seize and tangle up our feet,
We keep on marching on and on ahead.
When dreary skies of gray dim our delight,
When there is nothing happy to be said,
When cold drops fall as with us the sky cries,
We keep on marching on and on ahead.
On those days when just grim silence is known
And it seems everything you love is dead,
When you are left deserted and alone,
You keep on marching on and on ahead.
And maybe as hardships get more and more,
Marching on is all that we can hope for.
Fourteen-year-old Marjorie Maria Antohi puts forth a work of original and profound value in Rhymes of an Irrelevant Teenage Girl. With a poetic voice that shifts without delineation from one piece after the other, Antohi is a poet to watch out for amongst contemporary word weavers. The Shakespearean sonnets in this adroitly-woven volume are the pieces that make up the big picture; the story of the fourteen-year-old’s life.
