Sunlight

Second ASSIGNMENT for lesson FIVE: Write poem using imagery, in which the tone of the symbol shifts to suggest another meaning, such as in Keats’s ‘Ode to a Nightingale’.

Requirements:

Choose, as the main image, one of the following symbols which carry a meaning: sunrise as rebirth, staircase as a passage, or a national flag as patriotism.
Remember to shift the tone of the symbol to suggest another meaning.
Your poem may be any length, but should be at least three stanzas.
Feel free to use the poetic devices discussed in previous lessons.

I wake up in the morning to see the
sky bathed in the salmon sunlight.
Myriad birds flutter in the sky
caressed by the amber light, their golden
plumage representing its brilliance.

Enticed by its beauty I mill about
the streets watching light playing on the
tresses of the school girls scurrying away.

Mandarin sun floods its light,
activities pick up amongst the
din and bustle of the busy city,
honking cars and obese people
plodding along to cut their calories.
The munificent sun showers
love rays over all and sundry.

As I saunter along the sun glare on
a window dazzles my eyes and it reads
"outpatient chemo", which I shudder at.
The glint on the glass betrays my sight
and overpowers me with panic.
I now loathe the stingy and wicked sun,
its rays bereft of love and affection.