So I'm inexperienced with this whole poem thing, but I wanted to try it, so I spent most of last night working on this. I have known Amanda for something like 9 years, and we have had... well, an interesting relationship. I wanted to try to capture in words the depth of my feelings, but that is difficult to do. I first contemplated an epic sonnet, but that was too limiting. And so here is the final product. If you can, try to grasp all of the layers of meaning, though some of it will be easily missed without context. I would appreciate any feedback, because this is my first attempt at a poem of this kind.
"Ode to Shlup"