IDIO[MA]TIC POEM

A few days ago we were celebrating English Day or Book Day in our school. We were supposed to make a poem using idioms. So, I just wrote two poems that did not make sense to me. But my friends told that they do make sense. I believe them and here they are.

MEANINGLESS POEM #1

The Rhyme Scheme of the poem is ABBA. In this poem the narrator judges the book [board] by its cover and gets cheated on. However, the betrayal has not been mentioned and neither is the way in which it had taken place. In fact, the poem gives no clue how he had been cheated on except after it had taken place. The narrator was furious after that and was anger-driven and how it cost him everything.

I went on a run

And saw a board 

Saying 'Take Off Your Work Load'

I jumped the gun

And went inside 

But haste makes waste 

I had an ax to grind 

I beat a dead horse

I had no remorse

I was out of my mind 

I had lost my head

I had hell in my hand basket

I laughed in her face

Gave her no space

But it was an arm and a leg 

Then I had to beg

I was back to square one

With a chip on my shoulder

An anger hoarder

Which I had to shun

And now everything is in the bag  

MEANINGLESS POEM #2

The Rhyme Scheme is AABB. I started this poem using idioms ,but then at the end I gave up and just cared about rhyming because what rhymes makes sense.

As high as a kite

Full of spite

An ax to grind

A contract that does not bind

A back seat driver,

was my rival

At a baker's dozen 

My heart was frozen

But still I was head over heels 

With a smile, my heart he steals

But haste makes waste
And love was a paste I did not want to taste

Now I am going back to the drawing board 

Without love I was bored

But he had a chip on his shoulder 

He crushed my heart under a boulder

In the heat of the moment 

I said I didn't love him

Now I'm in despair

With no love to spare

Full of disdain

Nothing to gain

Money my only support

I had lost all hope [for any love].

Hey guess what, here is the MEANING 

We can also perceive these poems as two sides of a coin. In the first poem the narrator has been betrayed by someone unknown, maybe the narrator of the second poem betrayed him. Maybe the betrayal is that she refused his love. In the second poem the idiom 'chip on his shoulder' has been used to describe his anger which can be connected to the line in the first poem 'I laughed in her face' which refers to his refusal, later on as part of a revenge. The heavy cost the narrator of the first poem had to pay may have been losing his one true love. I didn't really write these poems with this meaning but while I was writing them here I just thought that maybe they could be related. Even though, the first poem has kind of a happy ending, it  mostly shows the side effects anger. In addition to that, the second poem tells us how the narrator let her ego overcome her and betray her love leading to sadness and a life in isolation as she began the chain of betrayal.

P.S. these poems are fictional and do not relate with me or anyone I know. I just went with flow.