All,
Thanks for posting on our OpenLab Discussion Board! It’s a bit of an anti-Valentine but fun to read! You all came up with some interesting similes (an important poetic term). Here are some lines put together from each pair (or, read the full poems from everyone on the discussion board HERE:
I feel horrible. She doesn’t
Love me and I wander around
The house like…..
…like she wasn’t
There, trying not to make a sound
…like I’m her least favorite food
…like a lost mouse looking for a crumb of bread or cheese
Squeak!
…like she doesn’t even give me a chance to talk.
This unrequited love is gone,
….like a lost dog with no place to run
feeling trapped with the thoughts of loneliness
…like it doesn’t really matter…
Because who really are we?
Just a spec of dust lost
within the galaxy
…like a zombie, shuffling
from room to room looking for food
that I can stuff my face with
and forget about my problems.
…like a sulking sloth but I try to look happier when I am around her.
…like what there is plenty of fish in the sea.
…like Hold on, put your cup down, drink freely, holla at me if you need me, baby
…like a dog in a shelter who watches
..like every other pet gets picked
but me.
(Before class, remember to read “Getting Ready To Tell My Dad ‘I Love You,’ It Rains”)
