I need to find fifteen different elements of poetry in these five poems. Could someone please help me identify them?
LAMERICA
Trade-routes
guide lines
The Vikings & explorers
Discoverers
The unconscious
a map of the states
The veins of hiways
Beauty of a map
Hidden connections
Fast trampled forest
Madness in a whisper
neon crackle
The hiss of trees
A city growls
rich vast & sullen
like a slow monster
come to fat
& die
My Dearest Drug Friend
My dearest drug friend caught up in your trip,
Holding on tightly but still losing your grip.
My dearest drug friend passed out on the floor,
Full of insanity but still searching for more.
My dearest drug friend so messed in the mind,
Leaving the life you once had behind.
My dearest drug friend craving your coke,
Blinded by powder and chemical smoke.
My dearest drug friend you're slipping away,
If only you'd stop this damaging way.
My dearest drug friend hold on to your life,
Put down your gun and your blood-shedding knife.
My dearest drug friend stop selling your soul,
Stop playing with needles and paying the toll.
My dearest drug friend you're giving it all,
To drugs you'll bow down, to drugs you will fall.
My dearest drug friend you've chosen to die,
You gave drugs your life and that makes me cry.
Poison
Words that need to be spoken should not accumulate inside.
The hurt, pain or jealousy a person feels can not hide.
Sorrow and anger can be and will be suppressed.
But this only leads to a person feeling depressed.
Anger is a deadly toxin in which the body it flows.
When it takes over limb by limb, everyone knows.
The body - The mind controls and manipulates.
As the poison enters the veins and circulates.
When the poison reaches the heart it's too late.
Disastrous emotions take over such as revenge and hate.
The antidote to cure these emotions, is not so hard to find.
We must search to learn to control our spirited bodies and minds.
Stress
Stress is eating at me every minute and second of the day, how do I cope with the horrible effects and make it go away?
I feel so tired and run down and I don't sleep, I lie in bed at night and wonder why it runs so deep.
Everyone asks why do you look so sad, do I tell them that my stress is eating me up and that I feel really bad?
Does everyone notice how I walk around in a daze, and that I have deep black bags under my eyes nowadays.
I wake up every morning feeling so hopeless, like nothing ever goes right and wondering why my life has to be such a mess.
Stress is my one worst enemy, it's taken over my mind and my whole life in every single degree.
Life as I See it.
Life is a bitter sweet pill
I am forced to take against my will
Everyone trying to pull me
Back into so called reality
Why I ask what does it hold?
Don't they see I have nothing I am so cold
My veins have no heat pumping through
My depression makes everything a shaded hue
In my heart I have no laughter, joy or love
I have prayed but there are no answers from above
My reality is not like other peoples seem to be
Silent screaming inside of me constant feelings of misery
Just want to withdraw into my own little safe haven
Just to be left alone and have people realize I am not worth saving
So please don't save me
I don't want to come back to your reality
LAMERICA
Trade-routes
guide lines
The Vikings & explorers
Discoverers
The unconscious
a map of the states
The veins of hiways
Beauty of a map
Hidden connections
Fast trampled forest
Madness in a whisper
neon crackle
The hiss of trees
A city growls
rich vast & sullen
like a slow monster
come to fat
& die
My Dearest Drug Friend
My dearest drug friend caught up in your trip,
Holding on tightly but still losing your grip.
My dearest drug friend passed out on the floor,
Full of insanity but still searching for more.
My dearest drug friend so messed in the mind,
Leaving the life you once had behind.
My dearest drug friend craving your coke,
Blinded by powder and chemical smoke.
My dearest drug friend you're slipping away,
If only you'd stop this damaging way.
My dearest drug friend hold on to your life,
Put down your gun and your blood-shedding knife.
My dearest drug friend stop selling your soul,
Stop playing with needles and paying the toll.
My dearest drug friend you're giving it all,
To drugs you'll bow down, to drugs you will fall.
My dearest drug friend you've chosen to die,
You gave drugs your life and that makes me cry.
Poison
Words that need to be spoken should not accumulate inside.
The hurt, pain or jealousy a person feels can not hide.
Sorrow and anger can be and will be suppressed.
But this only leads to a person feeling depressed.
Anger is a deadly toxin in which the body it flows.
When it takes over limb by limb, everyone knows.
The body - The mind controls and manipulates.
As the poison enters the veins and circulates.
When the poison reaches the heart it's too late.
Disastrous emotions take over such as revenge and hate.
The antidote to cure these emotions, is not so hard to find.
We must search to learn to control our spirited bodies and minds.
Stress
Stress is eating at me every minute and second of the day, how do I cope with the horrible effects and make it go away?
I feel so tired and run down and I don't sleep, I lie in bed at night and wonder why it runs so deep.
Everyone asks why do you look so sad, do I tell them that my stress is eating me up and that I feel really bad?
Does everyone notice how I walk around in a daze, and that I have deep black bags under my eyes nowadays.
I wake up every morning feeling so hopeless, like nothing ever goes right and wondering why my life has to be such a mess.
Stress is my one worst enemy, it's taken over my mind and my whole life in every single degree.
Life as I See it.
Life is a bitter sweet pill
I am forced to take against my will
Everyone trying to pull me
Back into so called reality
Why I ask what does it hold?
Don't they see I have nothing I am so cold
My veins have no heat pumping through
My depression makes everything a shaded hue
In my heart I have no laughter, joy or love
I have prayed but there are no answers from above
My reality is not like other peoples seem to be
Silent screaming inside of me constant feelings of misery
Just want to withdraw into my own little safe haven
Just to be left alone and have people realize I am not worth saving
So please don't save me
I don't want to come back to your reality
