By: Zeshawn Hameed

I look at you every night,

my pulchritudinous orb of light.

Even though you have a low gravitational pull,

I get closer to you every night.

A bright ball of hope in the dark day

Shadowed out by the sun, don’t you say.

The sun, underrated, more like overrated

I’m inveigling the sun into my lure, you about to get baited.

He gave you some light

Due to his pity.

You are the Warriors,

The sun is Oklahoma City.

People love you, they land on you for popularity

you have lots of friends, the sun’s in solidarity,

Like a star in its own universe

The Sun is like the moon, but just worse.

During the night

you have the spotlight

Due to the moonlight

Don’t think just because you all are astronomical bodies

You all are going to reunite.

You are the sea, water beats fire

Looking so superannuated

You’re soon to expire

The moon is beautiful, like a better sun

The sun is a pop-out, the moon a home-run.

People look at the moon

giving wishes yelling ‘Please!’

Humans love you,

They gave you a nickname

Ball of Cheese

This planetoid is the G.O.A.T

If this were an election

The moon would get my vote.

 

1. The type of poem I published is an Ode poem
2.  f) I choose the moon as the subject of my poem because people should appreciate the moon as much as they do the sun
3.  The tone of my Ode to the Moon poem is Aggressive but also tranquil
4. The theme of my Ode to the Moon poem is don’t count out smaller things
5. a) ‘You are the Warriors, the sun is Oklahoma City’, The type of figurative language seen here is metaphor, This figurative language helps contribute to the theme and the tone because the Warriors is an all-star championship team, and the Oklahoma City Thunder are no where near a championship. This figurative language helps the reader understand that I believe the moon is greater than the sun, and you shouldn’t count the moon out. b) ‘The moon is beautiful, like a better sun’ This type of figurative language seen here is a simile. This figurative language helps the reader understand the theme that I believe that the moon is better than the sun. 
6. One way I revised the poem was by changing beautiful to pulchritudinous. I choose to do this because pulchritudinous is elevated vocabulary and helps me describe the unreal beauty of the moon. Another way I revised this poem was by changing pull to inveigling. The purpose of the revision was to show how much I’m baiting the sun
7. It was not easy, but also not hard writing this poem. This is due to my extreme of the moon, and my absolute hatred of the sun, but it was also hard to rhyme.
8. I’m am satisfied with my final draft because it met all the requirements and more.