Expressing Our Emotions Through Poetry

Our second grade classes have been using ideas from their 'Emotions Book' to write poetry.

First we chose an emotion and had to answer these questions:

• What colour is the emotion? 
• What does the emotion taste like? 
• What does the emotion smell like? 
• What does the emotion look like? 
• What does the emotion sound like? 
• What does the emotion look like? 

Here are some examples of our notes at the planning stage:

Below are some of the students' finished poems (their spelling mistakes were kept as is for this post):

Angry
Angry is burning red,
It tastes like bitter squishy ice-cream,
And smells like three month old un refridgerated pie,
Angry looks like an earthquake,
The sounds of booming canons,
Feels like soft velvet turning into a burn.

Disgusted
Disgusted is like turquoise and brown,
Disgusted tastes like an old trash can,
Smells like old fish,
Looks like a fly eating rubbish,
Sounds like flies buzzing around,
Feels slimy.

Happy
Happy is pale yellow,
It tastes like Red Velvet cake,
It smells like a bonfire,
Happy looks like floating embers,
It sounds like a fast, yellow, American sports car,
It feels like the sun shining on me.

Upset 
Upset is dark grey,
It tastes like worms with spaghetti and dirt,
And smells like a cake with whipped cream on top that has been left for nine days,
Upset looks like a dark leaf outside and a storm,
It sounds like fire burning the tree and grass,
It feels like a sword through your heart.

Disgusted
Disgusted is dark, dark yellow,
Tastes like bitter, hot soup,
Smells like mould old bread,
Sounds like cutting worms,
Feels like eating black dark rocks.

So, what do you think of our poems? Amazing that this kind of work comes from second graders!