Sense+Poems

Sense Poems Sense poems are 5 to 6 lined poems. They describe emotions and feelings using each of the 5 senses (sight, smell, sound, touch, and taste). The last line is the thought created from the senses.

YOUR ASSIGNMENT: Think of a place, a person, a memory that is special to you. Take a snapshot in your head of this image. Then complete the following statements in your language arts journal:

a. I see __________________________________________________________ b. I smell _________________________________________________________ c. I hear __________________________________________________________ d. I feel __________________________________________________________ e. I taste _________________________________________________________ f. I think __________________________________________________________

After you have completed these statements, remove all pronouns and verbs. You also need to remove articles as needed. Below is an example of this process. The underlined words are the pronouns, verbs, and articles to be removed for the poem to take shape.

__I see the__ sage - covered desert __I smell the__ freshness of __the__ morning __I hear the__ scream of a hawk __I feel the__ caress of a breeze __I taste the__ dew on the wind __I think the__ new day __is__ born

sage - covered desert freshness of morning scream of a hawk caress of a breeze dew on the wind new day born