Leon Enriquez's Poem 'Blessings'

Blessings of Growth Leon Enriquez’s “Blessings” is a fantastic poem with a very different wordplay pattern to it. The word that is used to end each line is also the word sued to start each line, “Dawns to a play, Play that fits morn.” for example. The poem is quite confusing, and looks like a lot of repeated words that sound sophisticated, but there is a strong meaning in such a hard criteria of beginning each line with the word of the last line.

Leon starts his poem with “Know a deep feel, feel a fond trace, Trace a new deal, Deal a surface.” When told to know a deep feel, feel a fond trace, it is a search for a memory. With such a memory, we are told to “Trace a new deal” to learn something, or to improve something. The next stanza says a similar idea “Face a new day, day that now dawns” which can be a memory, a day that has dawned. After that he says “Dawns to a play, Play that fits morn” or to take action on the day that has dawned; to make a new deal, just as he said before.

The next stanzas have a different meaning. “Morn that come to fill, Fill a new sense, Sense in calm will, Will that floods tense”. He is saying that if you work and take action, you will be rewarded, as

Not only does the past hold hardship, but also the present and the future. The road is a strong metaphor that shows the “path” and destiny of life, even good enough for Jack Frost and his famous poem “The Road Not Taken”. These final lines break it to us that not only has our past been difficult, but that everything is- with the quote “Road that turns tough, Tough with harsh loads”. Luckily the final stanza finishes us off with hope, as we bring those loads, (the work that has payed off). “Loads that we bring, Bring to block fear, Fear that now sings, Sings far and near”. We use our experience, our hardship, our struggles, as a way to improve ourselves, a way to “block fear” of what the world has in store for