When you are old and grey and full of sleep

Don’t go to sleep go travel the world

Or go and have some fun with your family

But please don’t go to sleep!

Have some fun the last moments of yourlife

At least do something that you haven’t done for years.

Parachute from very high

Or buy a car and tell a lie

Rob a bank with apple pie

to build a house up to the sky

Also buy the FBI

So you can commit any crime

Without having to pay a fine

Now that you can can start a war

you can go back to your car.

Now you can go back to your sleep

Without having to sweat or shriek

Comments

Cesar Finol

9 years ago

About a person that is about to die. Or a person that is going to sleep regularly.

Its very good because most of the poem have rhymes.

This doesn't reminds me about nothing.

He used rhymes in the poem and that made the poem more interesting.

Anonymous Guy

9 years ago

Today you will post feedback for at least 5 of your classmates in Power Poetry.

That means you need to read a poem they have posted, and write in the “comment” field your response to the poem, by answering the following four questions about their poem.

What do you think the poem is about?

(1-2 Sentences)

Is about a person that knows that he is going to die and he knows and he doesnt want to do anything about it.

What is something you like about this poem? Why? (Be specific!)

That almost all the lines rnymed alot and it is really nice.

What does this poem remind you of? Something else you read, something you have experienced, or something you see in the world around you?

It reminds of a movie that it happened the same and it was a really good movie. And it is a text to self.

(text to text, text to self, text to world)

Were there any poetic devices used in this poem that made it stronger in your opinion. Identify them and say why you think that poetic device worked well.

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