Monster Poems

Using simile and metaphor to create "oogly" monsters...


It Is
By Classroom 304


The monster’s hair is like needles.
The monster’s head is like a pillow.
Its eyebrow is a green caterpillar.
Its eyes are as big as the warts on its face
and the nose is as black as the night sky.
Its mouth is as big as a bear’s foot.
The twenty ears are sharp knives.
Its teeth are as sharp as a saber-toothed tiger’s teeth.
Its chin is as pointy as a hook. Its neck
is as long as a giraffe’s.
The shoulders are as hairy as a dog.
The body is as shiny as glass. The four
arms are as blue as the ocean.
The 44 fingers are red as blood.
The fingernails are sharks teeth.
Its 15,000 legs are as hairy as my dad’s feet.
Its feet are slimy like snails.
Its toes are green leaves.
The toenails are as big as 90 ostriches.
It is a mad scientist and is as fierce as fire.



Furball
By Classroom 303

Its hair is like a pillow of cold.
Its four heads are as big as a giant pumpkin.
Its unibrow is as dark as a shadow.
Its four eyes are clocks.
The nose is as long as Pinocchio’s.
Its two mouths are pink as bubble gum.
The chins are as pointy as pencils.
The five ears are red balls.
It has four bolts in its neck like Frankenstein’s monster.
Its two shoulders are elephants.
The two arms are as long as a 50-inch table.
Its hands are biog as lions.
Its fingers look like chicken sticks.
The fingernails are shark’s teeth.
Its body is as big as a room.
Its 50,000,000 legs are as short as ants.
The knees are people.
Its feet are as flat as a piece of paper.
Its toes are as big as a Sumo wrestler.
The toenails are as big as the Titanic.
The tongue looks like a person.


The Oogly Oo-Oo-Ah-Ah Toe Monster
By Classroom 305

Her hair is as fuzzy as a squirrel’s tail.
Her foreheads are two pumpkins.
Her unibrow is a tower.
Her five eyes are as blue as the recycling can.
The seven noses are as hairy as cats.
She has twenty ears as big as elephants.
She can open her mouth as tall as the Sears Tower.
Her teeth are as sharp as shark’s teeth.
Her chin is shaped like an acute angle.
Her neck is as fat as a hippo.
Her four shoulders are houses.
The six arms are as long as a giraffe’s neck.
Her six hands are like hot stoves.
Her fingers are thin as sticks.
The fingernails are crunchy chips.
Her body is a square.
Her legs are as long as stilts.
Her feet are as small as mice.
Her toes are crayons.
Her toenails are as yellow as the sun.