Colour Poems
Purpose: A colour poem presents images that represent a particular colour.
Structure: Colour poems have no formal structure. Usually, each line in a
colour poems contains an image which describes the colour using
the five senses.
Rhythm: Colour poems do not usually follow a rhythm pattern.
Rhyming Pattern: Colour poems do not usually rhyme.
Here is an example colour poem about the colour yellow.
Yellow
Yellow is the sight of blossoming daffodils in Springtime.
Yellow is the sound of birds twittering in the treetops.
Yellow is the smell of ripe lemons bursting with juice.
Yellow is the gentle touch of the sun on my cheeks.
Yellow is the taste of pineapples, passionfruits and mangos.
Yellow is joyous.
Pink
Pink looks like a huge pile of soft marshmallows,
Pink sounds like wind chimes in the wind,
Pink smells like a freshly washed baby,
Pink feels like a soft feather running up and down your skin, Pink tastes like light, fluffy fairy floss you get at a circus, Pink is love.
Step 1: Choose a colour for your colour poem.
Step 2: Brainstorm using a mindmap on Sketch school as many images as possible that relate to your colour.
Remember to cover all five senses.
Step 3: Write your colour poem using the example structure provided.
Title: your colour
(sight) What things look like your chosen colour?
(sound) What things sound like your chosen colour?
(smell) What things smell like your chosen colour?
(touch) How does your chosen colour feel to touch? Think about textures.
(taste) What things taste like your chosen colour?
(emotion) How does your colour make you feel like?
List some other ideas that you have about your chosen colour:
Publish in word and email Mrs West
Choose another colour and write another colour poem.
Structure: Colour poems have no formal structure. Usually, each line in a
colour poems contains an image which describes the colour using
the five senses.
Rhythm: Colour poems do not usually follow a rhythm pattern.
Rhyming Pattern: Colour poems do not usually rhyme.
Here is an example colour poem about the colour yellow.
Yellow
Yellow is the sight of blossoming daffodils in Springtime.
Yellow is the sound of birds twittering in the treetops.
Yellow is the smell of ripe lemons bursting with juice.
Yellow is the gentle touch of the sun on my cheeks.
Yellow is the taste of pineapples, passionfruits and mangos.
Yellow is joyous.
Pink
Pink looks like a huge pile of soft marshmallows,
Pink sounds like wind chimes in the wind,
Pink smells like a freshly washed baby,
Pink feels like a soft feather running up and down your skin, Pink tastes like light, fluffy fairy floss you get at a circus, Pink is love.
Step 1: Choose a colour for your colour poem.
Step 2: Brainstorm using a mindmap on Sketch school as many images as possible that relate to your colour.
Remember to cover all five senses.
Step 3: Write your colour poem using the example structure provided.
Title: your colour
(sight) What things look like your chosen colour?
(sound) What things sound like your chosen colour?
(smell) What things smell like your chosen colour?
(touch) How does your chosen colour feel to touch? Think about textures.
(taste) What things taste like your chosen colour?
(emotion) How does your colour make you feel like?
List some other ideas that you have about your chosen colour:
Publish in word and email Mrs West
Choose another colour and write another colour poem.
Purple
A bruise on your leg,
bunches of grapes in a bowl,
a sweater that goes great with black,
the sound of power,fruit juice poured into a glass
a school bell ringing, ringing
Grandma's rhubarb pie.
cold medicine served up on a tablespoon
squishy cough drops,
velvet covered cushions
pointy tip pentel markers,
the sky before lightning starts
Purple can take you for a sweet ride.
Green
Green is apples, markers, and cool.
Green is the taste of vegetables.
Green smells like grass and rain.
Green makes me feel envious.
Green is the sound of a lawnmower
and a sigh.
Green is a garden, forest, and a swamp.
Green is renewal.
Green is beginning again.
Green is spring.
A bruise on your leg,
bunches of grapes in a bowl,
a sweater that goes great with black,
the sound of power,fruit juice poured into a glass
a school bell ringing, ringing
Grandma's rhubarb pie.
cold medicine served up on a tablespoon
squishy cough drops,
velvet covered cushions
pointy tip pentel markers,
the sky before lightning starts
Purple can take you for a sweet ride.
Green
Green is apples, markers, and cool.
Green is the taste of vegetables.
Green smells like grass and rain.
Green makes me feel envious.
Green is the sound of a lawnmower
and a sigh.
Green is a garden, forest, and a swamp.
Green is renewal.
Green is beginning again.
Green is spring.