Somewhere Never Seen
Nature Poem
The starkness of Earth is penetrating.
Particles of dirt are so fine they could dissolve to the touch.
Some source of light is evident as it presses against
the ground, stenciling a horizon.
Across the carpet of thick grass a bird sings.
The song is wailing, then weeping, then something else altogether
A shy current of wind tugs at me gently then playfully nips.
Looming among the silent chaos stands a tree.
It carries some burden, appearing to be crucified.
All that is left is the stump of an arm
for the rest succumbed to the theft
carried out by hungry metal, alien to its surroundings.
It's out,
For all to see.
Its neighbors snicker with a controlled roughness
at their different shades.
How odd it is that something such as this
is common among them yet considered so different.
She appears to feel nothing,
paying the figure not so much as a look.
She apparently does not care to stay with her own.
The eeriness of her pale perfection is haunting-
four tiers of identical leaves fan a circle of powder white petals
In a self created display case she is helpless in the deep sky.
Perfection has nothing to do with fate.
The flower is forced under the tree's darkness that she had abandoned.
Around the flower nature mourns for the darkness against the light under the graying sky.
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Poetic Elements:
One of the poetic elements used in the above poem is personification. I used personification frequently in this nature poem because I wanted it to seem as if there was nothing but nature involved with the scene and anything else was odd and strange in contrast. Personification gives inanimate objects human-like characteristics. In the sentence " A shy current of wind tugs at me gently then playfully nips", the wind cannot not tug and nip but a human can. When I wrote "... carried out by hungry metal", I gave metal the human quality of hunger. In the sentence " Its neighbors snicker with a controlled roughness...", I gave the surrounding bark the trait of a bully and the ability to speak. Also when the "nature mourns" I use personification.
Another of the poetic elements used in the above poem is antithesis. I thought that antithesis would be a good element to use in one of the shorter stanzas because all of the attention is on concentrated words. Antithesis is when two opposite ideas are juxtaposed. In the sentence "Looming among the silent chaos stands a tree", I describe chaos which usually induces a mental image of basically everything all happening at once but I made it silent which is basically the opposite of chaos.
Visual imagery, tactile imagery, organic imagery, connotation, and denotation were also used in this poem.
Particles of dirt are so fine they could dissolve to the touch.
Some source of light is evident as it presses against
the ground, stenciling a horizon.
Across the carpet of thick grass a bird sings.
The song is wailing, then weeping, then something else altogether
A shy current of wind tugs at me gently then playfully nips.
Looming among the silent chaos stands a tree.
It carries some burden, appearing to be crucified.
All that is left is the stump of an arm
for the rest succumbed to the theft
carried out by hungry metal, alien to its surroundings.
It's out,
For all to see.
Its neighbors snicker with a controlled roughness
at their different shades.
How odd it is that something such as this
is common among them yet considered so different.
She appears to feel nothing,
paying the figure not so much as a look.
She apparently does not care to stay with her own.
The eeriness of her pale perfection is haunting-
four tiers of identical leaves fan a circle of powder white petals
In a self created display case she is helpless in the deep sky.
Perfection has nothing to do with fate.
The flower is forced under the tree's darkness that she had abandoned.
Around the flower nature mourns for the darkness against the light under the graying sky.
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Poetic Elements:
One of the poetic elements used in the above poem is personification. I used personification frequently in this nature poem because I wanted it to seem as if there was nothing but nature involved with the scene and anything else was odd and strange in contrast. Personification gives inanimate objects human-like characteristics. In the sentence " A shy current of wind tugs at me gently then playfully nips", the wind cannot not tug and nip but a human can. When I wrote "... carried out by hungry metal", I gave metal the human quality of hunger. In the sentence " Its neighbors snicker with a controlled roughness...", I gave the surrounding bark the trait of a bully and the ability to speak. Also when the "nature mourns" I use personification.
Another of the poetic elements used in the above poem is antithesis. I thought that antithesis would be a good element to use in one of the shorter stanzas because all of the attention is on concentrated words. Antithesis is when two opposite ideas are juxtaposed. In the sentence "Looming among the silent chaos stands a tree", I describe chaos which usually induces a mental image of basically everything all happening at once but I made it silent which is basically the opposite of chaos.
Visual imagery, tactile imagery, organic imagery, connotation, and denotation were also used in this poem.