By:Amara Rojer

The Art of Poetry...

I spent three days completely paralyzed by how many people i wanted to dedicate before deciding just to dedicate everyone because i didn't want anyone to be left out

Dedication

You guys know who you are and why i am grateful for you. You know exactly whyI hope you all enjoyed the fancy spiral things I put on the letters. It was the best way I could think of to show you how very,very serious I am about my gratitude - Allie Brosh,Hyperbole and a Half 2013

Number Name1 I wish..

3 Rainstorm

5 Oh shrimp

7 the red raven

9 Craigslist friends

11 Pat away the dust

13-14 optimistic olivia and pessimistic penelope

15 too much homework

17 shakespearean my hearts a radio

19 morning bell

21 lunch bell

23 dismissal bell

25 liar

The tables of contents:

I Wish... Assonance

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I wish I were a butterfly.wouldn’t life be swell.If I were a butterfly.it would all go well.If there were any problems.I could just fly away.If only I was free.like a butterfly would be.Wouldn’t life be so amazing.I could go anywhere I pleasedto the lowest corner of the earth.to the highest one in the heavens above.but I am not a butterflyso I can only dream. 2

R a i n s t o r mR a i n s t o r mR a i n s t o r mR a i n s t o r mR a i n s t o r m

imagery 3

It was a hot yet cool day,we were all hard at work,

when the sun decided to play hide and seek behind the cloud.

I could see the clouds getting darker, but I heard the thunder in the distance, I grabbed my soaking wet bag that fell, in a

puddle.And I started to run towards home,

I felt the rain drops dripping on my, face drip, drip, drip

I kept running until I fell face first in a pile of mud.

I smelled worse than a skunk on a bad dayI finally got home

got cleanand ended the day eating with my family a nice and warm cinnamon apple pie with a

big scoop of french vanilla ice cream

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Tone

Oh Shrimp...

5

It tastes amazingI love it since fiveIt is always my cravingBut I don't eat it alive

Ew eat it with eyes

That's disgusting

Every Time a shrimp

dies

Their population is

corrupting

It lives under the seaSwimming in groupsIt swims with gleeJust like real troops 6

The Red Raven....

Alliteration 7

8

Craigslist friends

end rhyme 9

Walked through the entrance after having breakfast.

with some friends I met on craigslistjust meeting them in real life and they were nice

and cool.they even invited me to hangout in their pool.

I said “Another day,now lets enjoy the fair”where they have music,candy,and prizes to

share.we danced and had a blast.

with music from our past.sometimes people from craigslist appear to be

weird or could be murderersbut not these guys they just liked to eat burgers...and they were also burglars

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Pat away the dust

Allusion 11

I'm as shy as a stray fawn looking for its unknown mother

I'm as weird as wedding without a priestBut I'm okay with that

People think I'm strange and oddPeople don't know me I walk as a ghost

When people do see me they talk behind my back

But I just shake it off as if I was patting my sweater to remove the dust

I like who I am I like being me I'm differentAs a blue butterfly in a garden of yellow

butterfliesBeing wierd is sometimes okay

Just being yourself is even better

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Im sure she will get here soon

ill wait for her in the corner

next to this gross guy

he smells nice…if I hold my breath

Hang in there it will be fine

oh no not this song but it will end soon

there is a light at the end of this tunnel at least. shes not here i'm sure she will be here soon this is wonderful I am enjoying this I guess when life gives you lemon you make lemonade

Optimistic olivia. . . .

13

Where is my friend I think she stood me up i'll just wait for her next to the gross dude he smells horrible I'll have to hold my breath oh no i hate this song end already I wouldn't wish this song on my worst enemy yep she totally stood me up maybe she is at a better partyI rather be at home watching netflix my phone is better than this nightmare of a party snoooooooooze

pessimistic penelope

14

toomuch

homework

15

Sometimes i'm happy but not today

Today is the worst day ever.

I have so much work to do .

It will take me years to finish all of this

homework.

I will die finishing this homework.

Sometimes I feel the teachers work together

to make us miserable.

like lets say mr.johns walks in the teacher

break room and starts talking to mr.stevens.

mrs stevens says “Hey,john guess what I

am giving my kids a huge pop quiz

tomorrow” then mr.johns says to mr.

stevens “awesome I am giving them a take

at home test where the answers aren't

online,they actually have to read.” then ms.

amanda walks in “well I am giving them an

assignment where they have 10 minutes to

prepare a presentation to present” awesome

right wrong then they hold hands and say

“Teachers Unite” 16

17

My hearts a stereo beating for youmarkets though your radio to turn onif thou were just a old record not new

would you dust thou off till the dirt is gonemy heart has been broken and left with

crackswould thee heart mend thine and scratch

the hurt spineAncient artifacts are old mean gets back

a note I wished there had placed in hands mine

a song of love our hearts in thee if thou were old school like an odd boom

box would you defy the law and be jailed soonto what ends I would go to break the lockslike my thumping hearts my song love beat

melody meant for the blues ment defeat 18

19

I’m tired,so very tiredI want to sleep but i know i can’t

Eyes closing slowly yet fast and all at oncebut when i am in my wonderland trying to

escape realityRING,RING,RING\I fell out of my chair face

first on the ground but im alright

20

lunch bell

21

I can hear my own stomach grumblingI can just hear the tick of the clock

Tick,tock,tick,tockSo slowly how was it that it felt like 15 or 30

minutes but was only five i'm getting hungrier by the minute

only 1:04 one more minute untili can feed the whale living in my stomach

seriously it sounds like a dying whaleeeeeeh,bruer,grubblie. 1:05 and i'm first in line

and the whale is alive and sleeping

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Dismissal bell23

Last period before it is all over,last period before summer

everyone finished their exams and we are all waiting it was as silent as a mouse you could hear a pin drop we were all waiting when we slowly started to whisper summer,summer,

summer then they screamed SUMMER,SUMMER,SUMMER.

RIIIIiiiiiiiiiing bell rings summer vacation here we come

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there is a new kid at school probably the next newton

hr is smart but he is a flawed hero his flaw is he is a huge liar

Im surprised his nose is not growing like pinocchio's he liked science wait let me

rephrase that science was his achilles heel but he seems nice you know invite him to your

house and he is a trojan horse he left the room dirty stole my candy and then ran away he

manipulated me like the serpent in adam and eve

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