When it is Snowing
Siv Cedering
When it is snowing
the blue jay
is the only piece of
sky
in my backyard
Poppies
Roy Scheele
The light in them stands as clear as water
drawn from a well
When the breeze moves across them they totter.
You half expect them to spill.
Complete the Following Sense Detail Organizer for this Poem:
Sense Detail Organizer
Poem Details Sense Appealed To
"When it is Snowing"
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Poppies"
Write About the Following:
In your writer's notebook, capture some details and images that you can
fashion into a short free verse poem. Capturing details and images requires
careful observation of either a focus item or your surroundings and
purposeful use of adjectives and adverbs to clearly describe what you see.