Beautiful ‘Hunger Games’ Inspired Poem Featured in New York Times

6/9/2011Hunger Gamesadmin

As part of their Found Poetry Challenge, the New York Times features a poem that is inspired by The Hunger Games by Imogen.

Imogen used two articles from The Times Magazine, one about the novelist Suzanne Collins’s dystopian fiction for children, and the other about Value Places, a chain of extended-stay motels for people who have fallen on hard times. Check out the beautiful poem below:

Heartbreakingly innocent,
beloved ones drowning in their dishwater-brown world.
Oppressed children, a tortured crew,
sweat and sacrifice.
Mesmerizing dreams, glitzy, gleaming;
Free them from the tragic brutality,
memories like nightmares.
Dark patch behind the 7-Eleven becomes a makeshift haven,
cigarette butts alongside lime rinds sucked dry,
fifty-eight cent doughnuts.
Desensitized voyeurs, youthful monsters exploring violence;
like Theseus in his maze, they battle cliques and crushes.
Fantasy pitted against the realities of loss, survival, sacrifice.
Echoes of suffering, that half-human monster in the night.

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Via TheHobOrg/HGGirlOnFire