Poems with

Figurative Language

by: Katherine Casipe and Angela Abapo

Simile
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“The Base Stealer”

Poised between going on and back, pulled

Both ways taut like a tight-rope walker,

Now bouncing tiptoe like a dropped ball,

Or a kid skipping rope, come on, come on!…

Taunts them, hovers like an ecstatic bird,

He’s only flirting, crowd him, crowd him. . .
Hyperbole
“Summertime is Here”

My tongue is a piece of sandpaper

I’m dissolving into a puddle.
I want to dive into a snowdrift
Though I’m sure that would befuddle
Open me up, my organs are cooked
I think I’m now well done.
You can fry an egg upon my brow
As I melt away in the sun!
Hyperbole
“My Dog”

His bark breaks the sound barrier

His nose is as cold as an ice box.
A wag of his tail causes hurricanes
His jumping causes falling rocks.
He eats a mountain of dog food
And drinks a water fall dry.
But though he breaks the bank
He’s the apple of my eye.
Oxymoron
“Romeo and Juliet”

“Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!

O anything, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
Dost thou not laugh?”
Onomatopoeia
“Swish Went the Fish”
(By Kelly Roper)

Swish, swish, swish,

Went the little goldfish
As he swam around his bowl.
Splash, splish, splash
Went his fancy little tail
Because he was a happy little soul.
 Glub, glub, glub
Went the bubbles he blew
As they floated up to the
top.
Smack, smack, smack
Went his tiny fishy lips
As he ate his flakes
without a stop.
ALLITERATION
“Fast Rabbits”

Rabbits running so very fast

In the field of green, green grass.
Sniffing for scents of snack time treats,
Hippity Hopping on their happy bunny feet.
When carrots and other foods are found
The rabbits prance and pounce.