write a poem on AFTER THE RAIN using rhyme scheme, simililes and/or metaphor
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Here is an example of a simile poem "Your Teeth" by Denise Rogers drawing a comparison between teeth and stars:
"Your teeth are like stars;
They come out at night.
They come back at dawn
When they're ready to bite."
LoveToKnow's Kelly Roper likens daydreaming to a balloon floating up into the air in this simile poem example:
Jerry's mind wandered during class
Like a balloon floating up in the air.
While he daydreamed about eating lunch
His stomach growled loud like a bear.
His classmates laughed like hyenas,
Which made him feel like a fool.
From now on he'd listen to his mom
And eat breakfast before coming to school.
Also by Kelly Roper, this other example poem continues the fun with swinging on a play gym.
Sally cried, "Hey everyone, I want you to watch me.
I can swing on this play gym just like a monkey."
She swung bar to bar until one bar she missed,
Then she fell and was so mad like an angry cat she hissed.
Famous Simile Poems
A simile poem, or in this case, a classic nursery rhyme, that everyone may know is "Twinkle Twinkle:"
"Twinkle, twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky."
In "A Lady," Amy Lowell brings the description of a woman to life with similes:
"You are beautiful and faded
Like an old opera tune
Played upon a harpsichord;
Or like the sun-flooded silks
Of an eighteenth-century boudoir."
Robert Burns used similes to describe love beautifully in "A Red, Red Rose:"
"O my Luve's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June;
O my Luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly played in tune."
"Simile" by N. Scott Momaday is one of the few poems where the entire poem is a simile, here comparing people to deer:
"What did we say to each other
that now we are as the deer
who walk in single file
with heads high
with ears forward
with eyes watchful
with hooves always placed on firm ground
in whose limbs there is latent flight"
"The Base Stealer" by Robert Francis is also chock full of similes:
"Poised between going on and back, pulled
Both ways taut like a tightrope-walker,
Fingertips pointing the opposites,
Now bouncing tiptoe like a dropped ball
Or a kid skipping rope, come on, come on,
Running a scattering of steps sidewise,
How he teeters, skitters, tingles, teases,
Taunts them, hovers like an ecstatic bird,
He's only flirting, crowd him, crowd him,
Delicate, delicate, delicate, delicate-now!"
Poems depict all emotions. You can feel the fear and confusion in these lines from the simile poem "Greater Than That" by Joyce Garacci:
"Like a bruised, little bird
Too confused to fly,
I'm trapped, in a word,
So confined am I.
A captive, collared lion
Alone in its pen,
I'm pacin' and dyin'
In a manmade den.
For an eagle was not meant
To be locked in a cage,
Its life to be spent
Like a picture on a page."
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