Spooky Simile Poems

I wrote the following spooky, simile poems. Each describes one Halloween-related subject using similes. Students guess what each poem is about and give poems the appropriate titles.

They can also write spooky, simile poems of their own.


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Like a grumpy, old man
Sitting on the front porch
Resting his chin on the rail
Scaring away trick-or-treaters
With his fixed stare
And his flickering grin


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It felt like a cool, mountain cloud passing through the room
It sounded like a rusty windchime clanking in a whistling breeze
It looked like nothing was there at all
But I knew I was no longer alone


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She had
Hair like moss, tangled, in the dell
Eyes like caves where bats would dwell
Eyelashes like webs a spider forgot
Nose like a sweet potato starting to rot
Ears like hornets nests that sag
Teeth like barnacles on rocky crags
Lips like dry, cracked desert land
Chin like kelp-covered dune of sand
Skin like earth after a hard hail shower
Mole rising like the Devil’s Tower
No need for her to stir brew and chant
One look at her would make one faint


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She looked like a sculpture
Chipped from black onyx
On exhibit, in the middle of my path home

Her eyes were like two topaz stones
Shining like lighthouse beacons
Or a hypnotist’s medallion on the upswing

I stood there like an art critic
Admiring her chiseled form

Then she broke from the pose
Leaving the path, empty
And me, with bad luck