Nathaniel S

Poetry Project

By Nate Spinale

Table of Contents Title
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Poem Type This will be your second assignment
Inauguration Poem
Ode

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Inauguration Poem

Change

Change
We need change
This place needs change

Over 60 years there has be issues
Carefully carefully Change

Treat all people the same
We need to change
We find new land.
Like the New York Islands

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Poem Guide: .Each poem is listed followed by literary devices and figurative language found in each

Inaugural Poem: free form, metaphors, alliteration, allusion, internal rhyme,
hyperbole
Ode:

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Ode to my dog

Dear scout.
Slobber, fur and bad breath
Oh that breath.
When you wake up in the morning
It looks like you are doing the downward dog.
That fur. Oh that fur. I find it in my food and my toung.
But I love the way that you love me.
You eat like you could eat a horse
Every Monday night football game you sit next to me.
Eating chicken.
You love chicken.
Your love for chicken is like how squirrels love nuts.
But why do you ask for 40 walks a day?
I love when you do the splat when you lay down.
I could never ask for a better dog.
You are the best dog a kid could ask for.

Abandoned farmhouse

Small little guy said the hospital blanket. I agree said the bed. Too
bad he died.
What happened to him? Remember the bomb? Right before he
went into a mental hospital.
Said the syringe. Right before he left he said something. I will never
forget it.

Dear Jack,

I remember you like a slice of bacon.
All those wonderful
Walks
Your love for me was like a cat and yarn
I remember when you smashed the car with a baseball.
Bang! Went the dent.
I loved that you snuck cheese into your room to give to me.
Playing in the street with the big red ball.
I kissed you goodbye right before the big blue car took me away.
I miss you jack.

Sincerely, The Yellow dog Sky

Love that dog,
Like a kangaroo loves to jump
I said love that dog
Like a kangaroo loves to jump.

Just like is mama
I said just like is mama
Eats bacon like its his last meal
I said Eats bacon like its his last meal

He is a good dog
I said he is a good dog
Before he is done
I love that dog.

There was one a turtle named duke
He ate too much so he puked
Then he sleep on a shoe
He enjoyed sleeping by the bay
He had a friend named edd
Edd loved to eat a beat
Edd loves to sleep

My family lives on a field.
Dad is the lacrosse stick
Strong and thin

Mom is the grass
Smooth and nice

And Me.
I'm the dirt
Making this family a family

C CC
A AA
R RR
R RR
OOO
TTT

CARROTCARROTCARROTCARROTCARROTCARROTCARROT
CRUNCHYCRUNCHYCRUNCHYCRUNCHYCRUNCHY
ORANGEGREENORGEGREENORANGEGREEN
YUMMYYUMMYYUMMYYUMMYYUMMY
DIRTDIRTDIRTDIRTDIRTDIRTDIRT
SOUPSOUPSOUPSOUPSOUP
CARROTCARROTCARROT
CRUNCHYCHUNCHY
ORANGEGREEN
YUMMYYUM
DIRTDIRT
SOUP
YE

Ode to fall

Trees and their orange leaves.
Falling, falling, down.
The leaves are Crunching, Crackling, Crumbling. Under your feet
Fall is like chocolate. So sweet and sometimes bitter.
Halloween. Fun with friends. Candy. Sweets.
Cool, crisp wind blowing through your hair.
I love fall

Never Has no Drip***
Awesome at playing sports
Today I lifted weights like the rock*
Excellent grade are the most important

Stinky socks stink like poop***
pretty good at sports
I like to eat meat***
Never ending apparel** is drippy
Always lifting because my biceps are as big as boulders*
lovely candles smell* great
Elephants are dope not an oaf**