My own poem

Primary school days by Tan Yu Xiang

During my primary school days,
we had fun making fun of friends.

One time we had so much fun,
making fun of friends,
that we dropped to the floor,
and fiddled around.

I had a special friend,
his name's Fred,
and he always got straight F's.

Fred is the guy,
who looks for friends,
to become his fan.

That is my funny primary school days,
where we had fun making fun of friends.


About the poem
I wrote this poem to my friends to talk about the fun we had during our primary school days. I also wrote this poem to the audience to tell them about how we had fun during my primary school days. I made use of alliteration on most of the lines, all focusing on F. This is to emphasize on the words with the 'f' and to give it some rhythm. I want the emphasize on the words with the 'f' because, I want the reader to know that it is for audience is my friends(a word with the letter 'f') and i want the reader to know that this poem is about the fun(another word that starts with 'f') we had. This poem is talking about the fun I had during my primary school days, about how we had fun making fum of friends. This would be the first poem i wrote in my secondary school life.

A poem that i like

This poem is used for homework only.

If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda
I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.

But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine

1) On the first stanza, she used a metaphor. She said that everything is like little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for her and the little boats is the metaphor of everything. I think she used this metaphor as she is on an island and "yours" is on another island and the only way to travel to that island is by boat so she used the metaphor of a boat to show that she wants to reach that island of "yours".

2) I like this poem because this poem is very emotional. It talks about the poet loving another but separated and how much the poet loved the other one. She made used of the figurative language to exaggerate her love towards the other one and she made use of figurative language to show how much she wants to be together with him. Therefore I like this poem.