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Bibian

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

5 poems·Since March 2016
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My Family- Free Verse

March 28, 2016
He’s the beanstalk from the fairy-tale Letting Jack climb up to steal a golden grail Except the grail is grades, And the beanstalk is blockades Challenging him with every piece of work he has. In school he was known as Private Investigator Jack Steel Let’s just say he wasn’t very happy with that deal She doesn’t work nine to five Sometimes she comes home sleep deprived With shifts A, B and C Sometimes even the occasional E Born in the USA, she isn’t even Aussie But she always plans trips where we get eaten alive by Mossies No matter how hard she tries to be cool, She’ll always look like a fool He’s always out the back The complete opposite of Jack He’s most likely working on a new knife Cutting and sharpening causing little strife His job includes electricity And when he describes it is sounds like does it with such simplicity Spike and Snake Some people thought they were fakes Until they saw the flakes of skin In the garbage bin Sitting in the water bowl Or sleeping in their little hidey-hole Resting under the heat lamp Because their still the tiniest bit damp Poetic Devices Used- Rhyme Scheme, Metaphor, Enjambment
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