This week at South Loop Poetry Club, we read Francisco X. Alarcón’s “On Monday I Feel Like a Dragon.” Our young poets raced to see who could find the most similes and metaphors. Since we used similes to talk about ourselves last week, we decided to write poems with metaphors about our loved ones this week. Here are some of the works we made showing off our figurative language:
South Loop Poetry Club
Grades 4-6
Untitled
By Annabel
My cat is the ocean
on a sunny day
That Golden Brown Cheese Pizza
By Cole C.
I made pizza
It was delicious
I cooked 2 of them
That was large as a French baguette
And the cheese and crust
Was golden brown. I cut it to slices
I shared it with my family
The cheese tastes… Crunchy
It was perfection to be thinking.
That golden brown cheese pizza
Just as tasty as a bear eating honey.
My family is eating as fast as a pig
My family adored it
They love it
And me too.
Solar System
By Ari D.
Sun is bright as light
Mercury can not fight
Venus is still as a pipe,
Earth is cool like a kite
Mars is cold as ice
Jupiter is big as life
Saturn is a little light
Uranus is fine
For Neptune IT’S ON SIGHT
Family Problems
By Oliver G.
My
cat.
Fat is my feline a
fat tree.
Her eyes are
swords that cut into my
sister’s bones of poison.
My mom her heart is
sweet candy that makes
her so kind.
My dad a stiff building
but his courage shines
bright like a diamond.
