Darius King

In this piece, my main inspiration was actually one of my friends -- I had asked her if she wanted me to write a poem about her, and she said yes, so I chose one of her most significant traits to focus on: her eyes. Eventually, the poem spun into something less specific and rather just a general poem about a set of beautiful, unavoidable eyes that held power in the form of inescapable magnetism. I really wanted to capture the beauty of them in the details I used to describe the colors, as well as the hyperboles I used to describe the impact they have on me/the speaker, as well as other people. The biggest takeaway for me this year has been the power that creating vivid imagery and solid details holds in writing, which I feel I applied to this piece and have demonstrated many times in my writing.