Poetry Place Collected Poems

snowflake's lament

The snowflakes lament poet’s place

One day
The President
Of the union of snowflakes
Wrote a letter
To the NYT

Lamenting the fact
That all the politicians
Were using snowflakes
As a political curse word

He wrote
Please stop
Calling everyone
You oppose
As snowflakes

It hurts our feelings
And snowflakes
Are sensitive creatures
Please just stop

Personification is a literary device by which animals, objects or ideas are given human characteristics, as in "the sky is weeping." This technique gives deeper meaning and makes expressions easier to understand, because readers always see things from a human perspective. More examples of personification can be found in the following link: http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-personification.html

Your assignment: Write a poem from the point of view of some inanimate object, such as a "Snowflake" .