Thursday, December 13, 2012

Cinquains & Similes

Winter Break starts next Friday, 12.21.12.  But the world is supposed to end that day too, so I'm not sure I should be looking forward to it so much.

Anyways, today in English class, this guy thought up the best simile about Winter Break.  He said:

Waiting for Winter Break is like riding to the top of a roller coaster, the closer you get, the more exciting it seems.


I think that he is a complete genius for writing that.  My simile was so lame compared:

Waiting for Winter Break is like waiting in line for the bathroom when you have to go really bad.

Okay, so maybe that's not really what I said, but it was at about that level of pathetic creativity.

Today we also had to write Cinquain Poems, which are poems that have 5 lines, that go:

2 syllables
4 syllables
6 syllables
8 syllables
2 syllables

Seems easy enough, doesn't it?  The example was:

Listen...
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees
And fall.

So I gave it my best shot:

I dreamed 
there was a tree
it opened up to me.
Out came a monkey.  Then it bit
me hard.


So I guess I'm not much of a poet.  But I could be worse, right?

Anyone know any good poems?

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