Found Poem: Kaleidoscope
Clouds reflect
The fleeting sunlight,
A kaleidoscope.
Reds, blues and greens,
Streaming
Under the yellow sun.
Soon,
This will be replaced
With a dim gray.
An approaching storm
Holds the smell
Of tar and dust.
Traffic is sparse
On the dirt roads,
Littered
With potholes.
Quickly, a tiny
Sedan
Cuts ahead
of me,
A festering annoyance.
I pass him.
It is too early
For horns.
I prefer highways.
The poetic elements I used were olfactory imagery, personification and visual imagery.
I used the olfactory imagery “an approaching storm holds the smell of tar and dust” to describe the smell of the approaching storm. The storm was nasty, and the natural beauty in the beginning of the poem could not last forever.
I used the personification “storm holds…” to describe that the storm had the smell of tar and dust. It was not present in the beautiful atmosphere before the storm came. I wanted to express that to the reader.
Finally, I used the visual imagery “reds, blues and greens, streaming under the yellow sun” to make the reader feel like they were inside the beautiful atmosphere. Based on the passage it came out of, the atmosphere seemed very beautiful and quaint.
The fleeting sunlight,
A kaleidoscope.
Reds, blues and greens,
Streaming
Under the yellow sun.
Soon,
This will be replaced
With a dim gray.
An approaching storm
Holds the smell
Of tar and dust.
Traffic is sparse
On the dirt roads,
Littered
With potholes.
Quickly, a tiny
Sedan
Cuts ahead
of me,
A festering annoyance.
I pass him.
It is too early
For horns.
I prefer highways.
The poetic elements I used were olfactory imagery, personification and visual imagery.
I used the olfactory imagery “an approaching storm holds the smell of tar and dust” to describe the smell of the approaching storm. The storm was nasty, and the natural beauty in the beginning of the poem could not last forever.
I used the personification “storm holds…” to describe that the storm had the smell of tar and dust. It was not present in the beautiful atmosphere before the storm came. I wanted to express that to the reader.
Finally, I used the visual imagery “reds, blues and greens, streaming under the yellow sun” to make the reader feel like they were inside the beautiful atmosphere. Based on the passage it came out of, the atmosphere seemed very beautiful and quaint.