Color Metaphor Poem

To create a Color Metaphor poem:

1. Choose a color. (Creative color names may be found on crayons or on paint color sample strips.)


2. Brainstorm a list of things that that color makes you think of.


3. Circle your most creative comparisons.


4. Make a poem out of your best ideas. (Remember, a metaphor is a comparison between two things without using "like" or "as." You are comparing the color that you chose to the items that you circled.)

Example:

Yellow is sunshine
pollen from the pine tree
honey of the hive
back of the bumblebee
the Autumn moon

It's springtime
and warmth
and a hug
in your mother's arms
It's joy and it's love

Yellow is
buttercups and daffodils
smiling up at me
embracing and illuminating
the wintered earth