Poetry

Every day I hear this in one form or another.

Its sound is like music to my ears.

I’m talking about the wonder that is poetry.

Poetry is a form of writing that is not bound to laws.

A form of writing that is famous from William Shakespeare to Edgar Allan Poe

A form of writing that everyone has heard even the doves

A form of writing with a vast amount of devices.

I’m sure we all know how to write a poem, but there is so much more that isn’t considered.

We are all used to our rhyme schemes that give our poems a sense of musicality.

We are all used to the classic similes, and metaphors, and rhyme schemes but when looking back there are so many more elements unused from the sounds of onomatopoeia to the repetition of conjunctions in polysyndeton to even the simple exaggerations of a hyperbole.

Poetry is not bound by anything and is a blank slate for us to decide.

Poetry is a blank slate that is the topic for this poem

A blank slate that we were all introduced when we were kids

By a simple story filled with rhymes and apostrophe

The famous work, “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”

A blank slate that reappeared in Middle School when learning about the masterpiece that is Shakespeare.

A blank slate that reappeared…today.

This blank slate allows people to drown in feelings and emotions

It allows people to be transported to a world filled with imagery from the powerful diction

It is a form of writing that allows people to express their emotions

It is again a masterpiece.

A masterpiece that is timeless and dates back to the 13th century

A masterpiece that is music and literature

A masterpiece that has a story that ends in a boom, bam, pow

A masterpiece that is seen in many different ways

The masterpiece that is literature.

By:Evan Wong