By: Armaan Goraya
Ode to Spring
Waiting for spring to arrive
Is like watching paint dry
One day
It arrived
Like a lightning bolt
A flash in the sky
Flowers blooming
As beautiful
As a song
Straight from a blue jay
Breezy
Not boiling
Not freezing
Perfect
Like love
Rejuvenating
Like a cool glass of lemonade
Inviting
Like bait at the end of a hook
Spring has come
One blink
And it’s gone
Like a passing train
There one moment
Vanishing the next
Gone as fast
As it had arrived
Reflection
- I published an ode
- I chose to write my ode on Spring because it is my favorite season and there are so many things that I love about it.
- The tone of my poem is Admiring.
- The theme of my poem is that Spring is perfect but it goes by so fast.
- A. “Like a lightning bolt”. This figurative language helps contribute to the poem by showing how fast it arrives. B. “Like bait at the end of a hook” This figurative language helps contribute the feeling that Spring invited you to go outside and enjoy the amazing weather.
- A. I changed songbird to blue jay in line 10, because it made it more specific B. I added the phrase “There one moment, gone the next” to show how fast spring arrives and leaves.
- It was pretty easy to write this poem, because my favorite season is Spring and there are a lot of things that I love about it.
- I am very satisfied with my final draft because I read over it many times, and made many changes.