Villain Poem

Ted Bundy is one of the most famous serial killers but towards
the end of his life, he actually helped people on suicide hotlines
with his manipulative ways.

Born with evil in me. Not something I control.

Possess the life and grow. Possess the remains, that feeds the soul.
Sinful aurora followed me around, not normal I know but god’s goal and it’s
left me alone in a hole.

I did feel love and compassion for one woman, Kendal,

It was purely accidental.
I hinged normality
But not reality and it was very sentimental.

I spent late nights trying to feel guilty for my wrong doings, nothing
worked.
Until I used my manipulative and crafty methods to save others and I
smirked.

I took but then evolved to save lives.

I persuaded their values and then they strived,
These were all people left with no more purpose given,
Is that enough to be forgiven?

You’re frowning but I really did try

To live a normal life and now I don’t want to die.
 Happiness Poem

Let me not tell you happiness is ‘bout;

To every single soul it does apply,
To me- it proliferates like a sprout,
Catching on to any body nearby.

It’s not hindering like a horse’s blinders,

Or agitating like a dripping tap.
He would not tell you constant grim reminders,
And make you feel stuck as in a death trap.

Instead he will charge electricity,

This for sure will sense you as delighted
With all his sweet sacred simplicity
That keeps all us in the world united.

Let me not tell you satisfactory advice

It should be as concrete as frozen preserved ice
-if you want to live a good life.
 Fairytale Poem
My fairy tale is Cinderella
My Global Issue is domestic abuse.

The slowly rising sun paints a pink hue on the rest of the cool morning sky,
After my first blink in the early morning, I get up and I clean,
I clean after my family; my sisters, my mother, and I’m left unseen.
Everyday at the dusk and dawn I’m treated atrociously,
Then at night I kneel on my cold isolated floors praying hopefully.

Father passed to the skies above and a cascade of change charged in convey,
Mother treats me harshly yet she’d still never lay her gracious fingers on the step sisters this way,
I used to wonder if it was how I pride myself in all colors because I’m gay,
Or if the deep dark destructive complexion of my skin in someway
Made it easier for her to make me obey.

Echoing forcefully through the corridors of her house,

‘Sweep deeper, sweep harder, sweep faster’
My step mothers words of affection, for you.
Sat on the cold ground trembling and crying as she beat hard like a victorian school headmaster
My step mothers actions of affection, it’s true.

I never understood why she chose to adopt me,

But the government does pay a large sum to people who take in orphans,
I guess that’s why I’m here just a source of cheap, no free income I see
But it’s a shame because now I feel like I’ve been stripped of any sort of endorphins.
Left alone feeling pain, stripped of any happiness, yet unfair cuz her daughters are allowed to be free

When I grow up I want a family of my own,

Whom I love equally and unconditionally.
Will I ever get myself out of this hole of disaster that’s unknown,
But I promise I will rise higher than her and get back my dignity that’s been stolen throughout my
infancy.
 Rationale
For my poem, I tried to talk about a global issue, domestic abuse. I tried to convey and
communicate these issues through my literature. I used literary devices and carefully selected
language to help with my poetic communication.
For example in the 2nd and 4th highlighted bits, I used alliteration to emphasize what I was
trying to express. Specifically in the 3rd highlighted line, I used three negative words relatively
meaning the same thing being with ‘d’ which adds emphasis as well as some rhythm.
As well as that, in highlighted line 1, I used imagery in the sentence to describe the setting for
the listeners as soon as the poem starts.
I also use the literature device a simile in highlighted line 4 when comparing how the
persons stepmother beat her to a victorian school headmaster. This was effective because it created
a powerful image in the listeners head that they could compare the stepmothers beatings to.
In the highlighted line 3 I used irony when describing the step mothers fingers as gracious
since someone who has used their fingers to beat a child are the complete opposite of gracious.
And lastly in highlighted line 5 and 6, I used metaphors to create powerful imagery. In the
highlighted line 5, I say that the writer had been ‘stripped’ of endorphins but she had not been
literally stripped of them, but it was more to describe how she felt by the actions. Same with the
highlights line 6, the writer won’t literally ‘rise’ higher but the metaphor is used to add imagery to
the action.
A structural element I integrated was the rhyming scheme. Each stanza follows a rhyming
pattern and I’ve listed the pattern using different alphabet letters before the start of each line. I like
having different lines in each stanza rhyme as it adds on to the flow of the poem which makes the
listener more engaged therefore I can communicate the global issue better.
Within the poem there are also some words marked in bold or italic. These words are just
words that I chose to highlight for myself so that when I read them, I put extra emotion into them. I
feel like these highlighted words are key to pronounce extra clearly as they help deliver the message
of my poem more effectively.