Welcome to Carrie Mathison's Diary- a fan site about Homeland and Carrie Mathison
POETRY
As well as writing obsessively detailed blog posts about Homeland and Carrie, I also love writing creatively to explore her character and through drawing or other art forms. Feel free to contribute any work and I'll post it to this page with your name (or whatever you want it to be credited to). I think the best way to create a really multilayered and interesting interpretation of Carrie is to gather as many perspectives in as many different media as possible so would genuinely love to get input in any form!
A Sonnet for Carrie Mathison
You don’t strike me as the poetry sort
unless, perhaps, it’s straight-laced with liquor.
But there’s an intensity, a flicker
of sideways-sharp awareness in your thoughts
that parallels your mind with metaphor.
How else would you see beyond the concrete
to know what others see as incomplete?
Hyper-everything, pure focus, hardcore
and yet
there’s a harsh vulnerability
that sometimes cuts too deep, a salted knife
in the heart’s open wound. Ability
to see too clearly and not unsee, life
heightened by emotions’ fragility.
You’re an ice-fire paradox of extremes,
nuclear fusion of hyperreal and dreams.