Annotations are, in a word,
Bulls***.
I get where you’re coming from,
But why should I have to
Conform to your prescribed way of learning?
Just because I did not mark the poem,
Does not mean that I do not  understand it.
I understand poetry better than anyone,
In this class.
I see the symbols,
The voice.
i see things where the author,
Did not attempt to put them.
Because that’s what poetry is.
It is beauty in strange places.
I understand that poem,
More than you do.
That tree
Alone on a hill,
Shrouded in darkness,
Is not just a tree,
It is a girl, fighting her way up,
Broken and bloodied,
But still standing tall.
Just because I did not write that down,
Does not mean that I don’t see that.
I know much more than you see.