By: Ladan Abdi

I walk in and smell the sweet aroma

like freshly baked cookies on a snowy white Christmas morning

When I catch it in sight, it’s hard to let go

My mouth waters, telling me to take it slow

I can’t resist, my desire for this treat is like a bears need for honey

I bite into it, I sense the delightful chocolate

Followed by a satisfying crunch

Your long bricks

Covered with a sweater

Of chocolate

Could possibly taste like an angel swaying in the air

If you were a gladiator

You could wipe out a large size of your pure competition like a war

just by the way you look or taste

The crispy wafers taste astonishing in my mouth

I keep popping them into my jaw, I tell myself to stop

Or at least slow down

“Go go go” I keep telling my brain like when your just before the finish line in a track meet

This sweetness passes on spirit I cannot control

Like the energy you have after drinking a cup of soda

The bitterly taste of this chocolate is as bitter as coffee

The sugar is giving me happiness, making me smile

1. The type of poem I published was an Ode.
2. I chose this type of poem, because it was easier to insert figurative language, and the tone and mood mostly fits the subject
3. The tone of my poem is open-minded
4. The theme for my ode poem is to make careful decsions
5. “I walk in and smell the sweet aroma like freshly baked cookies on christmas morning” This is a simile. This compares the smell of the treat to the smell of christmas cookies.
6. “My desire for this treat is like a bears need for honey” This is a simile. This compares the need for the sweet to a bears need for honey.
7. This poem was kind of hard to do because you needed a lot of thinking to make up a poem with different needs like figurative language and length.
8. I am satisfied with my draft, because I liked the way it turned out and I liked the way I used the figurative language.