Fourth Grade Simile Poems

Similes
Joshua M.

You are as slow as a turtle.
Glass is hard like stone.
You look as ugly as a pig.
You are thin like a flag.


Crazy Things
Jordan A.

Grandpa is as slow as a turtle.
Anger is like the color red.
Seconds are as fast as a cheetah.
Pumpkins are like rainbows.
Fat cats are like pillows.
Worms are like candy.
The midnight moon is like a cookie.
Gym tee shirts are as yellow as the sun.
Girls are made like a volcano.
Boys are like monkeys.

What Happens When You’re in Love?
Jordan L.

Does your heart squish like Play-Doh
or like goop in your hands or do you feel
calm like when birds sing?
Do you get frightened like when you
hear thunder or like when you’re surrounded
by devils?
Do you heat up like lava?
Maybe you tell the truth?

or do you die?



Simile
Jackie C.

Is crying like the
color blue?
Are lights as bright
as the sun?
Is a pumpkin as round
as a ball?
Yellow is as bright as
a sun?
Clothes like
fur to us?
Is the radio as loud as
a fire bell?
Is black as
dark as a spooky night?


Red like Rage
Yaritza M.

Can red be like rage,
Or as blue as the sky?

Is emotion like time
Or as round as Earth.

Minds like yours
Measure knowledge.

Is a raisin as thick as bark,
Or like a small star?

Questions are asked,
Why not answered?

Imagine pieces of things
You discovered.


Things You Don’t See
Amara R.

Pools as blue as the sky.
Crows as black as darkness.
Water as clear as glass.
Thunder like banging things.
Horses like steam.
Lions like fiery light.

Poems using "of"

A spin on Kenneth Koch's "Swan of Bees" exercise.  Students are asked to use not only the word "of" as a connective, but also the phrases "full of" and "made of."  I added the phrases based upon the fact that students would often use those phrases on their own.  I just decided to formalize the gesture into the exercise itself.  Two students used each possibility in stanza form, as in Leo S's untitled poem:

school of birds

house made of dogs

world full of invading Corn Pops

school of guts

people made of bugs

world full of bugs that have heat vision

volcano of snow

volcano made of water

volcano full of flying cows

dogs of cows

dogs made of monkey butt

dogs full of houses

sharks of fish

sharks made of lions

sharks full of people

world of roller coasters

world made of ice cream

world full of dead dogs

Here's a more typical example, filled with a good ear for words and the fantastic synapse-fast jumps from wishful thinking ("Birds made of chocolate"); amazing image ("Statue made of lightning"); silliness ("Ham full of hands"); and opposition ("Trees made of paper").

Mysteries

by Cassie R.

Shoes of flame

Statue made of lightning

Reading full of writing

Board full of basket

Ham full of hands

Cats of lizards

Wonderings of mind

Snakes made of ties

Belts full of cement

Paper made of markers

Sweaters of summer

Trees made of paper

Lakes made of Pepsi

Birds made of chocolate

Limos made of pillows

Tarantulas are full of eyes

Haiku

Here are a few haiku (complete with the rule that you have to mention or suggest a season) from the first class:

haiku

by Madeline N.

The day I twisted 

my ankle there were flowers

outside and roses.

haiku

by Yaritza M.

I feel cold today

Hot weather gone, no more

I feel cold and dead.

Halloween Haiku

by Christian B.

I love Halloween.

Let's go TP someone's house.

Give me come candy!