Bonfire with Friends

So Amy & I picked 5 of 20 of these 'little projects' to put into one poem. (See if you can spot them all!)

4. Use one example of synesthesia (mixing the senses).
8. Use a word (slang?) you’ve never seen in a poem.
11. Create a metaphor using the following construction: “The (adjective) (concrete noun) of (abstract noun) . . .”
18. Use a phrase from a language other than English.

I think these whole feeling of mish-mash gave me the idea for the general message of the poem. Last night at Satellite we had an epic bonfire, but every week with these people is amazing.

Bonfire with Friends

We join our hearts under the stars -
           except, not so poetically, understand?
It's more like,
           The fire is the centrepiece
           And the storm of our eyes.

But we're all talking,
about nothing and everything,
Haha, so kiff bru.

It's a brilliant dance of being -
           But we're just chilling, hey,
Futhi siyakudumisa.

And our voices look like a symphony of city lights.