By Heather Sakmyster

Ode to Family

The rainbow after a storm

All the colors come together

Producing a whole relationship

Like the pot of gold that lies at the end

Your family is there always waiting for you

They are like the blanket

When a child is crying

The sun peeking out

After a long treacherous storm

While there is comfort

There is also competition

Each person like a poker player

Trying to win as many hands as possible

But in the end they come back together

There is also love

The love of God

The love like a ray of sunshine

Radiating and spreading onto everything

From the mother’s hug

To that crack of a smile

A family

Always by your side

Has a special bond that is unsurpassable

 

 

1. The type of poem I typed is an Ode.

2. I chose family as the subject for my ode because my family is very important to me.

3. The tone of my poem is compassionate.

4. The theme of my poem is family is a very important part of a person’s life

5.

A) “The rainbow after a storm” is a metaphor that shows that family helps calm you after a hard time just like a rainbow is calming after a bad storm

B) “They are like the blanket when a baby is crying” is a simile that shows that a family is like a blanket in a sense that it calms you when you are feeling down.

6.

Revision 1) One revision I made was changing “reaching” to “radiating”.

Another revision I made was changing “wonderful” to “unsurpassable”.

7. It was a little difficult writing this poem because it was hard coming up with comparisons for figurative language.

8. I am pretty satisfied with my final draft because I feel like it represents my tone and theme pretty well.