Sour Love

‘Is love not bitter’? I repeat once again,
‘Think with your brain ’it can make you insane.

Rejection pierces my heart like a sharp sword,
Makes me move faster and slower than old ford.

Pain grips my heart with hand of stainless steel ,
Love poisoned my mind which makes me sick still.

Feel flared and foolish for being taken for ride,
My soul rides beside the dead bride with pride.

As my faith in love vanished into deep sea ,
I want  to be free and sting like a bee.

Which makes some heads and legs not to comprehend,
This has brought “more joy, less excitement” my friend .

I’ve vowed not to fall in love…anymore,
but some still believe in it and its glamour.





Line/devices :
1.aphorism  2.pleonasm  3. Simile  4.  Oxymoron  5. Personification  6.Metaphor  7.Allitration  8.Internal rhyme  9.inversion  10.pun   11.Synecdoche  12.Paradox  13.Ellipsis   14.Enjambment   

8-17-2018
Contest: A Litany of poetic devices
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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Gauthier Avatar
September 13, 2018 at 2:55 PM
Congrats on your well deserved podium finish, Olusegun. A lovely poem to read, I love your couplet form. Thanks for entering this challenging contest. Well done.
Dietrich Avatar
August 20, 2018 at 5:28 PM
wow you got in a lot of literary devices with your poem!! Good luck in Line's contest.
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