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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

Siting in the garbage bin

Relaxing 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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