Poet Leslie Marmon Silko uses metaphors, several poetic elements, and origins from her culture to mystically express the emotional and physical beauty found only in nature. Silko writes about nature in her poems, with that she has a distinct form that one may only find by reading her poems. In her poem “Prayer to the Pacific” she writes about the ocean and her poem form kind of look like waves. Silko also uses a wide range of metaphors that have to do with nature, for example in her poem ‘In Cold Storm Light’ she writes “..behind them a crystal train of snowflakes strands of mist tangled in rocks and leaves”. There is not literally a train of snowflakes, but rather it is beginning to snow. Silko writes about her culture and its origins too.
