Social Issues Poem

http://themetapicture.com/if-this-video-doesnt-convince-you/   Technology Spoken Word Video

“3x5” by: John Mayer

I’m writing to you to

Catch you up on the places I’ve been

You held this letter

Probably got excited, but there’s nothing else inside it

Didn’t have my camera by my side this time

Hoping I would see the world with both my eyes

Maybe I will tell you all about it when I’m

In the mood to lose my way with words

Today the skies are painted colors of a cowboy cliché

And strange how clouds that look like mountains in the sky

Are next to mountains anyway

Didn’t have my camera by my side this time

Hoping I would see the world with both my eyes

Maybe I will tell you all about it when I’m

In the mood to lose my way with words

But let me say

You should have seen the sunrise with your own eyes

It brought me back to life

You’ll be with me next time I go outside

Just no more 3x5’s

Guess you had to be there

Guess you had to be with me

Today, I finally overcame tryin’ to fit the world inside a picture frame

Maybe I will tell you all about it when I’m in the mood

To lose my way, but let me say

You should have seen the sunrise with your own eyes

It brought me back to life

You’ll be with me next time I go outside

No more 3x5’s

Just no more 3x5’s

**Notice how both the video and the lyrics to the song deal with a similar social issue: the obsessive use of technology and forgetting to live life. Both have extensive uses of metaphor, rhyme, imagery, puns, personification, etc. Use these as examples as you write your own.

**Your Original Poem:

-Free Verse Poem about a social or world issue of your choice

-30 lines: minimum of 5 words per line

-You must include examples of:

-Metaphor, simile, internal rhyme, pun/personification, imagery, and alliteration

-It must be original and well written.

-It will be peer edited and revised.

-Due: Wednesday at the beginning of class