If pond fish knew not fish from seas;

If meadows knew not forest trees;

If gravel knew not desert caves;

If apples knew not cider graves.

And yet I know you. And that's rather

Suave.

*

And then one for Gengjie's birthday! Madly late, and I apologize for that ):

Your scented breath of mellow mint upon the aftershave,

an Apple effort on the trek to starlet that you pave.

With winter walks through slighted snow and jogs through fetter-fog,

yet summer solace waits beyond the battles that you brave.

*

And then a proper one, I guess:

Red tea; the calligraphic words upon the weathered wall,

Red salmon; prize of spring-time fresh from winter's treasured trawl.

Red steak; the meat is reasoned raw - the red has yet to fade,

Red melon; mess or guess or blest: the choice remains unmade.

Green signs; so spelling exit from the red-adorned cafe,

Green cacti; 'long the alleyway that warn me not to stay.

Green cab; a genial greeting like a genie from her lamp:

Green meadow, please.

Amber; amble along - as if I'm not to leave.

Red rear-lamps; nay the rapid red, they stop me in my track,

Green bill - what's going through my head? - my feet take me right back;

to the glimpse of gold I see in you -

for you're the star I cannot lack.

*

Mmmmmmm! Poetic devices:

1st: Anaphora, perfect rhyme, iambic tetrameter.

2nd: Perfect rhyme, mind rhyme, assonance, consonance, alliteration, sibilance, symbol, allusion, iambic heptameter.

Last: Anaphora, perfect rhyme, mind rhyme, internal rhyme, assonance, consonance, alliteration, pun, symbol, caesura, colour imagery, iambic heptameter (:

Awesome. Until next time!