POEMS ABOUT NATURE, CREATION & THE WORLD ABOUT US

I find nature has a very therapeutic, calming effect on me and I tend to slow down and feel more relaxed and peaceful when I have the time to enjoy it. Naturally, I often end up inspired to write a poem as a result, so all of these nature inspired poems are listed together below in one category. However, nature, creation and the world covers a whole range of aspects, so if you looking for a more specific topic I have categorised my poems further into ANIMALS, PLANTS, INSECTS, SEASIDE, SEASONS, WATER, WEATHER

A River’s Journey

27 February 2012

    I have had requests for journey poems and for a river acrostic poem, and have taken this River’s Journey poem one step further to include aspects of a shape poem.  It is great for teaching figurative language as it includes lots of personification, metaphors and alliteration, and some onomatopoeia.

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A Bitter Pill

24 February 2012

      This is just a fun rhyme and rhythm story poem, including exaggeration for effect (hyperbole), with one word play phrase too.  It is based on a true scenario that anyone who has ever owned a tom cat will probably be able to relate to!    

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The Unfriendly Chimpanzee

12 February 2012

        Just a fun animal poem, written with my usual, childish immaturity!

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The Sun, to the Night Sky

12 February 2012

      This sun poem is another one of my personification examples.

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The Sun: Examples of personification

11 February 2012

  I have used italics to highlight the examples of personification in this poem: these are all the occasions when human qualities have been given to the subject. There are also lots of metaphors and some alliteration.

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The Sun

11 February 2012

  This very simple sun poem is great for teaching personification to children.  Many children automatically relate to the sun as a smiling face, so this poem introduces personification to them using this idea.  I have also included some questions to use to study it more closely.

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Tears of Rain

9 February 2012

  This is a very simple shape poem which includes some personification.

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A Bite to Eat

6 February 2012

  A rhyming, rhythmic poem in the words of a spider, to his poor unsuspecting victim….

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What am I?

6 February 2012

This poem is called a kenning, and is intended to build up from the least obvious description to the most obvious at the end. It is great for guessing games, and this is why I have given no clue in the title.

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Shell

2 February 2012

This is a very simple poem that I wrote when I remembered holding a shell to my ear as a child and believing that I could hear the sound of the seaside inside it. A poem doesn’t need to be purely descriptive:  use your own experiences, thoughts or associations as ideas for things to say […]

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