Figurative Language (Practice Session)

Benjamin Workman
2 min readJul 5, 2022

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One Way by Marco Zagara

To use a simile is like a sin to me

Criminally link a metaphor

To a child designated four

Who, unfortunately, met a four

Assailants, get set, explore

Barking up a neverending tree

Each branch acts as hyperbole

Entranced guarded by Cyber Lee

Civil War allusion

Disorienting vibrations

Created solely for the confusion

Trapped in a world of idiom

Stealing thunder

Robbing blind

Pot to piss in — Can’t find

Blowing by those that caution signed

Time flies by

Like a spy plane chase Camaro

Top this pun off

With a well-placed Sombrero

Onomatopeia turned social media

Via Tik Tok

All credit due to the Psycho

Birds fly by

Carrying Hitchcock

Alliteration

Written within

A Churchill

Next to Winston

Deafening silence

The USA with no violence

Ask Purdue about Oxymorons

Actions of the poet

Proverb

Some stumble upon the calling accidentally

Some know it after the hot herb

The quill becomes NyQuil

For those captivated with likes, still

The symbolism of slow thinking

Looking for double meaning?

Meaning no blinking

Metonymy provides the author autonomy

Pen mightier than the sword

Until it strikes upon economy

CEOs tied up in lawsuits

Dressed in a new suit & tie

Leaving courtrooms on new wheels

All for those 0–60 MPH reels

Introducing epithet

Set the bet

Competitors in for sleepless nights

Lonely days

Onlookers belly laughing at replays

Tag-in tautology

We say

Won the race by finishing in 1st place

Dabble with more literary devices in time

Merely, the first space

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Benjamin Workman
Benjamin Workman

Written by Benjamin Workman

Founder of HireHarmony | Machiavelli meets Peter Petrelli | Poet | Recording Artist |

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