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JOSIE'S POEMS
Poems About
Our Natural World
By Josie Whitehead
Metaphor Poems:
Metaphor is a common poetic device where an object in, or the subject of, a poem is described as being the same as another otherwise unrelated object.
THE ROVING RIVER
By Josie Whitehead
My father was the driving rain
And my mother was the moor.
My birthplace was the heathered hills -
A stunning place, for sure.
My itching feet were keen to move
Far from this tranquil scene:
Enthusiastic in my search
To seek out pastures green.
I trickle down the moorside steep
To join another stream,
And now we both will surge ahead –
A single-minded team.
Past fields of quietly grazing cows;
Past flocks of drowsing sheep;
Past houses, villages and towns
Our busy waters sweep.
Through cities where those lofty spires
Reach up to touch the clouds,
And universities for man
Stand illustrious and proud.
And now, with ships upon our backs,
We labour to the sea
Where embracing waves and ocean tides
Stretch out their arms to me.
It's here my waters are consumed
By the sea's rapacious thirst -
Far from those purple-heathered hills
From where they surfaced first.
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* Note: PERSONIFICATION: This poem is packed to the brim with personification. When you give something which is not human, human qualities, this is the term we use.