Photograph Poem - ME 5 - Due Thursday, 9/19

This week you will take your brainstorm from last week and turn it into a poem 20 lines long.  Remember to include as many elements from your Poetry Mastery Description as you can, such as similes, metaphors, personification, onomatopoeia, concrete details, sensory imagery, strong verbs, and a "twist" at the end.

To help you go from brainstorm to poem, here is the example from my brainstorm from last week.  It's still a work in progress, but it will give you the idea.  I'm looking forward to your poems!

Shoeshine Boy

A taxi cab honks

and the faint sweet whiff

of jugo de mango settles

on the dust next to

the five shoe-shine boys

and their livelihood.

The diesel exhaust cannot

Drown out the taste

Of Tia Rosa’s empenadas

Even though it makes

Playing hoyita a little distracting.

They will never get 100 pesos.

Victor remembers

The maqueno he ate for breakfast

And his dad who hasn’t come home

Since before his last birthday.

He looks back to his shoe-shine kit

And his stomach sinks again

As he smells the dust mixed

With stale cerveza.

He blackens those images

Like he blackens shoes

And pulls his long sleeves

Even longer over his fists.

The shop ladies gossip

Outside their tiendas and

The little boy knows that

They could be talking about

Anyone’s dad and anyone’s

Tia Rosa and anyone’s

Shoe shine kit.

The dirt crunches under his

Dusty jeans and

None of it matters

As long as there is

One more customer

At the end of the day

So that the angry Military Macaw

In the trees above him

Will screech at someone else 

and leave him in the relative peace

That comes from

One more pair of

Shiny shoes.