Look at the world through metaphor,
seeing one tree in terms of another.
Let two words bump up against another
Or seesaw on a single line.
Tell the truth inside out
Or on the slant.
Remember that grammar can be a good friend
And a mean neighbor.
Let the poem rhyme in the heart,
Though not always on the page.
1999
Shorty
Children's
2023
Ars Poetica
Imagery
visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work
List Poem
A list poem features an inventory of people, places, things, or ideas organized in a particular way, usually numbered.
Personification
the attribution of human qualities to a non-human thing