Mrs. Poems Page Writing Prompt Update - Spring 2010
It’s spring, but the blizzards of 2010 are still fresh in everyone’s memory (and still lingering on the ground). When we write about an experience like watching snow fall, we can make the reader feel like he or she is there if we use all five senses to describe. That’s using imagery.
Here is a five senses poem about the snow.
Counting Snowflakes
By MiMi Zannino
I’m counting all the snowflakes
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
I’m counting all the snowflakes
as they dip and dance and dive
I’m glad to see the trees sway
with their branches painted white
I’m glad to see the ground become
a snowy winter sight
I’m glad to hear the crackle
of the snowflakes as they pass
I’m glad to hear their winter rap
against my window glass
I’m glad to feel the coolness
of snow tickling my nose
I’m glad to feel the frosty touch
of winter on my clothes
I’m glad to taste the sweetness
of snow melting on my lips
I’m glad to have these mittens
to warm my fingertips
I’m counting all the snowflakes
6, 7, 8, 9, 10
and when I’m finished counting
I will do it all again!
Try it yourself.
Take an object and “experience” it with all five senses. For each of your five senses, write an adjective or a simile.
In MiMi’s poem, snowflakes :
Look like paint on the tree branches
Sound like someone rapping on the glass
Feel like being tickled
Smell cool
Taste sweet
Use your brainstorming to write a poem about the weather. Try writing one stanza for each of your senses.
MiMi Zannino is a fellow Maryland State Arts Council Artist-in-Education and poet. Thanks MiMi, for sharing your poem!
