Sunday 18 January 2015

Poetic Devices



The Life Of A Cupcake (Rhyme)

By: Shelby Greer


They put me in the oven to bake.
Me a deprived and miserable cake.
Feeling the heat I started to bubble.
Watching the others I knew I was in trouble

They opened the door and I started my life.
Frosting me with a silver knife.
Decorating me with candy jewels.
The rest of my batch looked like fools.

Lifting me up, she took off my wrapper.
Feeling the breeze, I wanted to slap her.
Opening her mouth with shiny teeth inside.
This was the day this cupcake had died.

Source: http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/the-life-of-a-cupcake#ixzz3P8PUOCJ6
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A Laughing Lie(atlleration)


Everyday I walk and smile, Every day I try to laugh, Building a wall of lies for people A laughing lie Everyday I walk and smile, Every day I try to laugh, Building a wall of lies for people not to see, The pain I really feel is so real. Trying to pretend everything's ok, Trying to live on, like nothing's wrong, A nervous laugh, a smile, it's not me. I want to curl up and cry for days, Let the pain go, feel again. Something more than a laugh. Being told to move on, What a joke,you don't know what is like, To carry this pain, bear these memories And living a smiling lie. When your wrists carries the scars, Your head carries the memories, Your heart feels broken, But that's that,keep going like nothing's wrong.

 The pain I really feel is so real. Trying to pretend everything's ok, Trying to live on, like nothing's wrong, A nervous laugh, a smile, it's not me. I want to curl up and cry for days, Let the pain go, feel again. Something more than a laugh. Being told to move on, What a joke,you don't know what is like, To carry this pain, bear these memories And living a smiling lie. When your wrists carries the scars, Your head carries the memories, Your heart feels broken, But that's that,keep going like nothing's wrong.

Read more at: http://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/a_laughing_lie_632554

The Bells(onomatopoeia)
By Edgar Allan Poe

I

Hear the sledges with the bells - 
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells - 
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

II

Hear the mellow wedding bells - 
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!
From the molten-golden notes,
And all in tune,
What a liquid ditty floats
To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats
On the moon!
Oh, from out the sounding cells
What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!
How it swells!
How it dwells
On the Future! -how it tells
Of the rapture that impels
To the swinging and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells - 
To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!

III

Hear the loud alarum bells - 
Brazen bells!
What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
In the startled ear of night
How they scream out their affright!
Too much horrified to speak,
They can only shriek, shriek,
Out of tune,
In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,
In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,
Leaping higher, higher, higher,
With a desperate desire,
And a resolute endeavor
Now -now to sit or never,
By the side of the pale-faced moon.
Oh, the bells, bells, bells!
What a tale their terror tells
Of despair!
How they clang, and clash, and roar!
What a horror they outpour
On the bosom of the palpitating air!
Yet the ear it fully knows,
By the twanging
And the clanging,
How the danger ebbs and flows;
Yet the ear distinctly tells,
In the jangling
And the wrangling,
How the danger sinks and swells,
By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells - 
Of the bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells - 
In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!

IV

Hear the tolling of the bells - 
Iron bells!
What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
In the silence of the night,
How we shiver with affright
At the melancholy menace of their tone!
For every sound that floats
From the rust within their throats
Is a groan.
And the people -ah, the people - 
They that dwell up in the steeple,
All alone,
And who tolling, tolling, tolling,
In that muffled monotone,
Feel a glory in so rolling
On the human heart a stone - 
They are neither man nor woman - 
They are neither brute nor human - 
They are Ghouls:
And their king it is who tolls;
And he rolls, rolls, rolls,
Rolls
A paean from the bells!
And his merry bosom swells
With the paean of the bells!
And he dances, and he yells;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the paean of the bells,
Of the bells - 
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the throbbing of the bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells - 
To the sobbing of the bells;
Keeping time, time, time,
As he knells, knells, knells,
In a happy Runic rhyme,
To the rolling of the bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells - 
To the tolling of the bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells - 
To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.

GREATER THAN THAT(simile)
by Brenda Joyce Garacci



Peering through the drape
Of my synthetic cell,
How I long to escape
This manufactured hell.

Like a bruised, little bird
Too confused to fly, 
I’m trapped, in a word,
So confined am I.

A captive, collared lion
Alone in its pen,
I’m pacin’ and dyin’
In a manmade den.

For an eagle was not meant
To be locked in a cage,
Its life to be spent
Like a picture on a page.

And when a mighty lion,
In truth, is but a cat,  
It will spend its time tryin’
To be greater than that.

The Last Shot(hyperbole)

The crowd was as tense as a mouse meeting fear;
Their backs are straighter than rulers.
Time is like the speed of light.
Everybody’s eyes are as large as saucers.
I am always given the last shot;
My aim is as certain as the rising sun.

Take a Poem to Lunch by Denise Rodgers(personification)

I'd love to take a poem to lunch
or treat it to a wholesome brunch
of fresh cut fruit and apple crunch.
I'd spread it neatly on the cloth
beside a bowl of chicken broth
and watch a mug of root beer froth.

I'd feel the words collect the mood,
the taste and feel of tempting food
popped in the mouth and slowly chewed,
and get the smell of fresh baked bread
that sniffs inside and fills our head
with thoughts that no word ever said.

And as the words rest on the page
beside the cumin, salt and sage,
and every slowly starts to age,
like soup that simmers as it's stirred,
ingredients get mixed and blurred
and blends in taste with every word
until the poet gets it right,
the taste and smell
and sound and sight,
the words that make it fit.
Just write.

 Summer Night:
By : Alfred Tennyson(Imagery)
Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:
The firefly wakens: waken thou with me.
Now droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost,
And like a ghost she glimmers on to me.
Now lies the Earth all Danaƫ to the stars,
And all thy heart lies open unto me.
Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves
A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.
Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,And slips into the bosom of the lake
So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip
Into my bosom and be lost in me.
Love (allusion)
By :Parker Spady
Endless love in the form of laughter, moments shared are kept forever. Some days laughing hurts, Other days nothing works. In the end love prevails, Endless love in the from of laughter

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