Portfolio Revision 2- Image Poem

Below is the revised version of "Image Not Found", which I had written for the Image Poem assignment. I wanted to include more of what was missing in the first version, which was context. I have trouble understanding that not every image in my head is translated when I write, especially in vague poetic terms, so I included a clearer perspective. I also did away with the form I had tried using, because the original rhyme scheme was loose and the meter was off. It was more distracting than anything to have it included, so I tried to see what the poem would look like in free form (though there are a couple rhymes, maybe out of habit).

"Image Not Found"

When cleaning out my grandma’s home 

I found a picture frame in a cardboard box 

A small oval, the wood stained merlot, 

And leafy tendrils of painted gold 

curled its old, scuffed parameter. 

Nothing waited behind its clouded glass 

Just the velvet black relief, meant to be  

Covered by a moment, a memory, a face 

Some important time, important place. 

I brought it home, sat it on my desk, 

And it watched from across the room 

For a year, where it still rests. 

It taunts me with its vacant space.

Why don’t I offer it an image? 

Let its vines hug a smiling visage? 

Don’t I have something to give? 

One happy snapshot, so then I'd see 

A loved one staring back at me? 

Instead of an empty vignette 

Which my eyes meet, but no eyes met.