Poetry

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A garden is a poem
Lined with rows of similes
Like lyrical chrysanthemums
And epic peonies.
A spider webs a poem
Composed upon the air,
Silk-designed and nely lined
To catch the unaware.
A reys a poem,
A night-inspired rhyme
Thats read by other reies
One sparkle at a time.


A shining stars a poem
Penned by ghostwriter, the Moon,
Who publishes her verses
In a book called Clair de Lune.
A busy bees a poem
With nectar thats so ne
A reader-eater laps up every
Honey of a line.
This winding paths a poem
Meandering through the woods
Of real and imaginary
Wild neighborhoods
That poets like to navigate
In search of either/or
One thing can mean another: thats
What metaphors are for.
Everything Is a Poem
By J. Patrick Lewis | Illustration by Sebasti Sera
Every stanza of this poem
starts with a metaphor!
There is also one simile.
Can you nd it?