DDCPoetry

Poem found here:   "To my Oldest Friend, Whose Silence is Like a Death" by Lloyd Schwartz I'm the silent one in the poem.  Not literally, but I know that I don't talk to people in forever and I don't tell why.  This poem is sentimental -- which is against everything that I was taught how to write as far as content is concerned, but as a reader, this poem hit me pretty hard. The poem is written in couplets with the occasional one off line -- which can easily represent either the "friend" or the "speaker," but first exposition:      In today's paper, a story about our high school drama      teacher evicted from his Carnegie Hall rooftop apartment      made me ache to call you--the only person I know      who'd still remember his talent, his good likes, his self- The line breaks in this poem makes these lines, the end of the first line with "high school drama" to reinforce the connection between the speaker and the ...