Fifth Month

by Poet on the Piano   May 17, 2013


Dear Five,

Your number is necessary for human earth to function and for gravity to be possible. You are present everywhere, and that is why May is your daughter, the fifth month. Many rushed members of society forget your importance but you are the beginning of spring, a time when allergies and perfumes intertwine on the tips of dandelions. Your number stands for the fingers we write with and reach our hands out to the sky with. Even restaurants need all of your five stars in order to have honor and glory. Polygons would not exist without you, shapes that have reasons, edges that can all connect because without five, there would be no symmetry, no math, no science, no oxygen to breathe. You are quirky, odd, and don't live in a parallel universe. But who does? You always have a middle, longer then the rest that is the voice of reason. It is the middle of the year and I am discovering what it means to move on from my past and look ahead to my future. Your ends are all remnants of winter but I know the summer is coming with your omniscient number: five.

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5/16/13 @ 9:31 pm.
So this was a prompt for an essay scholarship contest I randomly found on-line and decided to quickly do. We had to write a letter, under 250 words, to the number 5 and tell it why it's important. Enjoyed this!

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  • 11 years ago

    by Courageous Dreamer

    But you are the beginning of spring, a time when allergies and perfumes intertwine on the tips of dandelions.

    Your ends are all remnants of winter but I know the summer is coming with your omniscient number: five.

    ^These were my favorite parts, but of course I loved everything about this poem. It's amazing what something so little such as this can mean. So many meanings. Such a great prompt, I can tell it was very thought provoking for you. You put quite the ineresting spin on it though, I for one wouldn't have thought of the polygons.

    I did like how you put the bit about how you're learning to move on and look forward to your future. This part seems personal and adds a bit to the poem I thought because you're graduating and opening a huge new chapter to your life, so I can see how this is like a month of renewal for you. I really did like how it seemed as though you were going to focus on just the month of May but then it turned into the importance of the number itself. You did such a lovely job expanding on it!

    Well done :) Love it.

  • 11 years ago

    by Tara Kay

    I really really love this!!

    You always manage to master writes with this kind of imagery, this thought process that you make me go through...it brings me comfort...I can get lost in your writes, find solace in detail...you really write with such feeling, such ease, the flow was remarkable...

    I'm fidgeting like a crazy person right now....my fingers are racing along the keys...you just blow me away and make me realise how flipping amazing you are!!!!

    I love this...I really do.
    xxx

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