Write an original poem
write a poem that contains the following elements:
• one of the forms studied (sonnet, free verse, lyric, narrative)
• at least one of these poetic devices: first-person point of view, rhyme, repetition, or meter
• two or more uses of figurative language: metaphor, simile, personification, alliteration, hyperbole, allusion
review the rubric before submitting your assignment so you understand how you will be graded.

(free verse, repetition,  some rhyme, metaphor, some alliteration)

What is love? Is love a feeling? Can love be expressed by words? Can one understand it’s true meaning?

What is love? Can one find the answer through others? Does one find it far or near? Does one search for it in the heaven’s or the underworld? Does one find it in the deep?

Does one only understand it when in war? Does one have it during peace? Is it shaped by who we are, or only by nature, and time, as we speak?  

Does one have to search for it far and wide, or learn it from professors?

Or does one know it when it comes, the feeling of warmth and comfort?  

Does your beloved’s action affect your feeling? Or simply the belief of beauty and intellect?

Does one know the meaning of “love” through their actions? Or does one find out through their intent? Does one find out in life, or only when dying is the significance given to you? Does love have a meaning? Or is it only a word, a saying, with no core meaning?

Love needs deeper understanding, love needs deeper meaning

Love must be learnt, Love must be given. Love must be received before given

Love must have deeper meaning. Love must shape the core of our relationships

Love must be the foundation of our existence.

Love must start with a feeling, an expression,

           A meeting, an experience,

           A experience to remember.

Love must start deep down inside, before one can mention the words:  

   “I love you” ~  

Love brings patience, Love is kind, Love brings together and never sunders apart

Love brings happiness, Love is beautiful, Love brings together the good things in life.

Love is always present in good times and rough

Love is always present when feelings grow

Love is always present when you are given you wants and desires.

Love is always present when you are given punishment for your wrong.

What Love brings together, no man asunder, the special bond between the two.

Love is given, love is taken,

Love is true, love is fleeting

When love stays, it lasts for a lifetime

When love lasts, it lasts forever

When love is administered, it is remembered

Love is remembered, love cares,

Love helps propel people forward, love is always there.

Love allows people to survive good times and bad

Love helps one to do things thought right.

Love continues throughout the ages.

Love is remembered for a lifetime.

Love holds power, love controls people,

Love helps shape everyone’s life

So the next time you say the words,

Remember the power, remember the significance,

Remember the true meaning behind the words:

"I Love You"© Violet Evergarden, Kyoto Animation

~Rise Above the Ordinary, Senpai

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