Now it is time to write your own poem! what will be the theme or topic of your poem? consider what mood you want to create. poems can paint pictures, create ideas, arouse emotions. think about how you can use poetic devices to communicate with your readers. will you use form, personification, an extended metaphor, a childlike rhyme scheme? you may choose to use one or all of these. you many decide to use other poetic devices studied in these lessons. be creative!
your poem must include the following:
a rhyme scheme or meter
figurative language
at least one verb in the subjunctive mood
plz i suck at writing poems.

Spin your lies and pick a fight,

Don’t worry, I will not forget about what happened last night.

You speak your words and sharpen your knife,

what happened to the meaning you gave my life.

This bruised, brooding, blameful ending you’re giving me,

I don’t think it’ll ever set me free.

You see the pitter patter of your feet in the rain,

sorta reminds me of this game.

Every breath I take,

Lets me move further from you

And for once

In a certain way, your venom has positively benefited me.

in a place once known as north america, now known as panem, is a very rich city surrounded by twelve districts. every year because this very rich city, known as the capitol, is so rich and likes to think they control all the districts - which they do - there is something known as the hunger games! this is where two children, one boy and one girl from each district from the ages of twelve to eighteen, have to leave their families and compete in the hunger games, a live event that is aired on tv's all over panem. when katniss everdeen, aged sixteen from district 12, has to volunteer to take the place of her twelve-year-old sister prim after prim's name is called forth to become the 23rd member to compete in the 74th hunger games, she promises to prim that she will win! katniss doesn't believe she's coming out alive - but she's not going down without a fight.

because district 12 is so poor, katniss has been close to death many times from starvation but she's made it through it. but this is a different kind of close to death; this katniss doesn't know if she can survive.

she doesn't want to hurt, or kill anyone but when it comes down to it katniss' instinct is to survive. but when she starts to have confusing feelings about the boy from her district who is also her fellow contender, things get worse, and then she teams up with the girl from district 11 and only one person can survive. but who will it be? will her feelings get the better of her? will she let someone else win so they don't have to die? if katniss is going to win she's going to have to be brutal. she's going to have to kill!

i think the answer is a

hope i'm right, sorry if i'm not

-lavira : )