Your world is as big as you make it.
I know, for I used to abide
In the narrowest nest in a corner,
My wings pressing close to my side.
But I sighted the distant horizon
Where the skyline encircled the sea
And I throbbed with a burning desire
To travel this immensity.
I battered the cordons around me
And cradled my wings on the breeze,
Then soared to the uttermost reaches
With rapture, with power, with ease!
1962
Shorty
Harlem Renaissance
2022
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Faith & Hope
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Extended Metaphor
a metaphor that extends through several lines or even an entire poem
Metaphor
a comparison between two unrelated things through a shared characteristic
Polysyndeton
the repetition of conjunctions frequently and in close proximity in a sentence