figurative language
My pen is as smooth as butter
simile
autumn leaf
it is autumn time
a leaf no longer green
softly kisses earth
haiku
They lit up my life
metaphor
I was so small
but got a treat
i caught a baseball
in my seat
quatrain
she was a shining star
metaphor
i need a front door for my hall
the replacement i bought was too tall
so i hacked it and chopped it
and carefully lopped it
and now the dumb thing is to small
limerick
hedgehogs hog the hedge
alliteration
i was not happy
with the rain
until my eye caught
five wet leaves-
a mysterious
autumn
watercolor gift
here
on this broken road
free verse
peter piper picked a patch of pickled peppers
alliteration
he gives his harness bells a shake
to ask if there's some mistake
the only other sounds the sweep
of easy wind and downy flake
quatrain
Simile & Hyperbole
Autumn leaf
blow dandelions
and watch a thousand wishes..
scatter in the wind
Haiku
her smile was a mile wide
Hyperbole
as you listen, notice how
the pauses are directed by
the punctuation:commas, semicolons, colons and
periods. the pauses in free
verse are not directed by
where the line starts and
ends.
free verse
mary splish-splash in the water
onomatopoeia
penguin
black, white
waddling, swimming, leaping
a tuxedo in the cold water
emperor
cinquain
larry's guinea pig squeaked happily
onomatopoeia
puppy
ornery, naughty
growling, jumping, chewing
a playful bundle of trouble
boxer
cinquain
they fought like cats and dogs
simile
encountering Krishna in pools of perfection
in crystal clear waters of placid reflection
beyond the aquatic
i prod the exotic
and gather my moods in a cosmic collection
limericks