Playing with Poetry

(Final...revised)

Make your wish

Learned to expect the years come and go,
Life will stay... day by day.
Lights burning vigorously on the cake,
Listen, you're supposed to hear him say;

Oh dear, another year's past and,
Obviously we've made it throughout;
Only suddenly you think, what if it's not conveyed?
Outlived, those candles burn out.

Very unpleasant to think,
Valentine...presents...Lost.
Vacant now is your heart and soul
Viewing your mistakes and their costs.

Enough though, the song's been sung,
Effort takes paramount now;
Even we can transform our destinies;
Empower our wishes somehow.






(Original...not final)
Together

Knowing it will always be
You just expect to see the day
Candles burning all around,
You expect to hear them say;

Congratulations, another year past,
And I love you more than ever;
But then you think, what if they don't say it?
What if the chain is severed?

What happens if it doesn't come again?
What if you've lost it all?
Wishing you hadn't taken it for granted
Watching lifes' meanings fall.

Take my hand, there's still time left,
Time to change the future now.
Together we will change our destiny
Together we'll make it somehow.




Little bit of background on that poem. That poem, (if you didn't figure it out) was comparing love and relationships, more specifically my relationship with Ben, to a birthday. (Oh and it spells love all the day down, if you didn't see that too, which you probably did)
It supposed to talk about how you always expect your birthday to come, you learn to live and know that there will be a next year and you'll have your birthday and it will all be great..so you just kind of let it happen. Same thing with relationships, you expect things to go well, to get to your anniversary and be all happy.. or you expect, after you break up, that you'll get back together and everything will be ok and he'll say he loves you and all is well. But it doesn't always work out like that. Sometimes people die unexpectedly, or their relationship dies and everything wasn't better in the end. All those presents you were gonna get were lost and forgotten, you've lost your bf/gf/valentine/love of your life, and the candles on your cake burn out because you weren't there to blow them out yourself. Things don't always work out the way they're planned, but if you love eachother and you realize now that things don't always go as planned, you can change that. You can work together to make sure you're able to blow out your candles and make a wish, and then do all that you can to Make your own wish come true. which was the point of the title. Not to simply make a wish and hope, but to make a wish, then put effort into making your wish come true. The word Make was the only on capitalized because it was supposed to be more of Make it happen, as oposed to simply making it, but i don't think anyone would get that unless i explained it.
oh well.
oh, and the song that had been song was supposed to be happy birthday, which is then when you normally make a wish and blow out the candles.
oh and even less obviously but still there,
when you viewed your mistakes and their costs...it was talking about taking life and your lover for granted by just letting things go by, expecting things to get better all the time with no effort put forth.
oh and "effort takes paramount now" meaning you've thought about what could happen if you just let it all go, now the most important thing/only thing you should be focusing on is putting effort forward and try to make it work out.










Vocab:

Rhyme scheme: –noun
the pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences, as rhyme royal, ababbcc.

Rhythm: –noun
1.
movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.
2.
Music.
a.
the pattern of regular or irregular pulses caused in music by the occurrence of strong and weak melodic and harmonic beats.
b.
a particular form of this: duple rhythm; triple rhythm.
3.
measured movement, as in dancing.
4.
Art, Literature. a patterned repetition of a motif, formal element, etc., at regular or irregular intervals in the same or a modified form.
5.
the effect produced in a play, film, novel, etc., by the combination or arrangement of formal elements, as length of scenes, speech and description, timing, or recurrent themes, to create movement, tension, and emotional value in the development of the plot.
6.
Prosody.
a.
metrical or rhythmical form; meter.
b.
a particular kind of metrical form.
c.
metrical movement.
7.
the pattern of recurrent strong and weak accents, vocalization and silence, and the distribution and combination of these elements in speech.
8.
Physiology. the regular recurrence of an action or function, as of the beat of the heart, or the menstrual cycle.
9.
procedure marked by the regular recurrence of particular elements, phases, etc.: the rhythm of the seasons.
10.
regular recurrence of elements in a system of motion.

Alliteration: –noun
1.
the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group (consonantal alliteration), as in from stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that may differ from syllable to syllable (vocalic alliteration), as in each to all. Compare consonance (def. 4a).
2.
the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter, as in apt alliteration's artful aid.

Anaphora:–noun
1.
Also called epanaphora. Rhetoric. repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences. Compare epistrophe (def. 1), symploce.
2.
Grammar. the use of a word as a regular grammatical substitute for a preceding word or group of words, as the use of it and do in I know it and he does too. Compare cataphora.
3.
(sometimes initial capital letter) Eastern Church.
a.
the prayer of oblation and consecration in the Divine Liturgy during which the Eucharistic elements are offered.
b.
the part of the ceremony during which the Eucharistic elements are offered as an oblation.

Consonance: –noun
1.
accord or agreement.
2.
correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds.
3.
Music. a simultaneous combination of tones conventionally accepted as being in a state of repose. Compare dissonance (def. 2).
4.
Prosody.
a.
the correspondence of consonants, esp. those at the end of a word, in a passage of prose or verse. Compare alliteration (def. 1).
b.
the use of the repetition of consonants or consonant patterns as a rhyming device.
5.
Physics. the property of two sounds the frequencies of which have a ratio equal to a small whole number.

Assonance: –noun
1.
resemblance of sounds.
2.
Also called vowel rhyme. Prosody. rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence.
3.
partial agreement or correspondence.