30 Days of Poetry - Day 16

Writing About Weather:

Possibly the most famous poem about weather is Carl Sandburg's Fog.  You can write about a force in nature in the style of Sandburg by following the formula below:

Title:  Form of Nature chosen
Line #1:  Title + (how it arrives or begins as the animal would arrive)
Line #2:  Tell what it does
Line #3:  And how it does it
Line #4:  And where it is
Line #5:  Tell how it leaves (as the animal would leave)

Student Example:

THUNDER

Thunder comes in loud
Like the majestic roar of a lion.
It answers the call
Of lightening
By striking fear into people.
Away, somewhere in the sky,
Somewhere in the unknown,
An unknown voice,
And then leaves without a trace
Of its existence
Except in peoples' stories.
---Elia Miller (Grade 9)

To see some other examples of writing about weather, you can go to the "Windy Language" page.

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04/19/2003

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