Drew

My poems

ALL ON A WINTER NIGHT By drew adrian All on a winter night As the moon and stars where shining bright The dark sky lit up A comet shot by the horizon

As the moon and stars where shining bright A visitor came from the cosmos A comet shot by the horizon Making the whole world pause

A visitor came from the cosmos It made a dazzling light show Making the whole world pause Then left promptly back to space

It made a dazzling light show The dark sky lit up <span style="font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Then left promptly back to space <span style="font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">All on a winter night <span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';">A visitor came from the cosmos <span style="font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';">-example of personification <span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';">Making the whole world pause <span style="font-family: 'Bell MT','serif';">- example of hyperbole

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Error By drew Adrian system out of order overload of information Check your schedule given too much input

Assignment folder is full Future activities are on their way Schedule is not getting dull Projects are given every day The exams are coming soon Before holiday break work increases Amount of work will quickly balloon The stress from school never ceases

system out of order -line break overload of information - grammar

Different author <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 14pt;">SNOWY EGRET <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">by Bruce Weigl

<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">My neighbor’s boy has lifted his father’s shotgun and stolen <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Down to the backwaters of the Elizabeth <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">And in the moon he’s blasted a snowy egret <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">From the shallows it stalked for small fish.

<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Midnight. My wife wakes me. He’s in the backyard <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">With a shovel so I go down half-drunk with pills <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">That let me sleep to see what I can see and if it’s safe. <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The boy doesn’t hear me come across the dewy grass. <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">He says through tears he has to bury it, <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">He says his father will kill him <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">And he digs until the hole is deep enough and gathers <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The egret carefully into his arms <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">As if not to harm the blood-splattered wings <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Gleaming in the flashlight beam.

<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">His man’s muscled shoulders <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Shake with the weight of what he can’t set right no matter what, <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">But one last time he tries to stay a child, sobbing <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Please don’t tell ... <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">He says he only meant to flush it from the shadows, <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">He only meant to watch it fly <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">But the shot spread too far <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Ripping into the white wings <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Spanned awkwardly for a moment <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Until it glided into brackish death.

<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">I want to grab his shoulders, <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Shake the lies loose from his lips but he hurts enough, <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">He burns with shame for what he’s done, <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">With fear for his hard father’s <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Fists I’ve seen crash down on him for so much less. <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">I don’t know what to do but hold him, <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">if I let go he’ll fly to pieces before me. <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">What a time we share, that can make a good boy steal away, <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Wiping out from the blue face of the pond <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">What he hadn’t even known he loved, blasting <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Such beauty into nothing.

Until it glided into brackish death <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">.-cool vivid words His man’s muscled shoulders <span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">-alliteration