POEM ORIGINAL COMPOSITION

The Girl Who Bleed Ink

Written by: Jewelyn Ferolino

There's a girl who loves to write

About all her misery and pain

And all the tattered memories

That drives her insane

She scribbles on an empty page

Till her pen loses ink

Hope she could wipe out

Her memory in just a blink

You were a beautiful bird

Trapped in her cage

She's just an ink blot

That tainted your page

She flashes a smile

To hide it all away

And the tear stains on the pages

As she swept it all today

How she wish you would realise

The words you just have read

Is everything she wished

She once should have said

 Poem Original Composition
Allegiant Lover

Written by: Jewelyn R. Ferolino

Lost in the dark forest

Feelin' the psithurism touching my senses

Floundering to catch the only leaf

I had entirely dreamt of

As the leaf slips away

I see the dearth then flushing against the wind

Hearing your euphony way too easy

Easy to feel laceration with him doing nothing

Looking at the dim sky

I could still see the simplest leaf flying through it

Extending my arms but never did

Still, I've never touched nor reached to it

I often imagine

If your mind wanders through the same forest as mine

Being an allegiant lover

You're the one; I'm the never

INTEGRATION TO THE LESSON: The Girl Who Bleed Ink

Grade/Year Level: Senior High School

Lesson: Creative Writing: Imagery and Figures of Speech

Integration:

Figures of speech are words or phrases used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect. The most
common figures of speech are simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, apostrophe, hyperbole,
synecdoche, metonymy, oxymoron, and paradox.

Imagery as a general term covers the use of language to represent objects, actions, feelings, thoughts,
ideas, states of mind and any sensory experience. It is a figurative language used to appeal to the senses
through vivid descriptive language. Imagery creates mental pictures in the reader as they read the text.

Present the poem to students, have them identify the verse that shows figurative speech (simile,
metaphor, personification etc.) then discuss the meanings behind it.
 Caged Bird
ADAPTED POEM
BY MAYA ANGELOU

A free bird leaps

on the back of the wind

and floats downstream

till the current ends

and dips his wing

in the orange sun rays

and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks

down his narrow cage

can seldom see through

his bars of rage

his wings are clipped and

his feet are tied

so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings

with a fearful trill

of things unknown

but longed for still

and his tune is heard

on the distant hill

for the caged bird

sings of freedom.

The free bird thinks of another breeze

and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees

and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn

and he names the sky his own

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams

his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream

his wings are clipped and his feet are tied

so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings

with a fearful trill

of things unknown

but longed for still

and his tune is heard

on the distant hill

for the caged bird

sings of freedom.