Robert Trombly Elementary School
820 Beaconsfield,
Grosse Pointe, Michigan USA 48230
Color Poetry
Mr. Buckman's Second Grade Class
Early in the year, the students wrote free verse poetry about colors.  These are their poems.

De’Vontae

Yellow
Yellow as a flower.
Yellow as a sun.
Yellow as a lemon.
Yellow as a leaf.
Yellow as the mustard I put on my hamburger.

 

Alison

Brown
Brown as a Bear.
Brown as a tree.
Brown as a Walnut
Brown as a Vulture.
Brown as the chocolate bars that are yummy for you and me.

 

Gianna

Blue
Blue as a sky.
Blue as a jeans.
Blue as a bluegill.
Blue as a blueberry.
Blue as the ocean that is always hot.

  

Graham

Blue
Blue as a water bottle.
Blue as a lake.
Blue as a sky.
Blue as a shirt.
Blue as the shark he will eat you.

 

Jacob

Yellow
Yellow as cheese.
Yellow as mustard.
Yellow as a bus.
Yellow as a big bird.
Yellow as the butter that goes on toast in the morning.

  

Matthew

ORANGE
Orange as a monster.
Orange as a pumpkin.
Orange as a turkey feather.
Orange as a goldfish.
Orange as the oranges that I love to eat.

 

Maya  

Brown
Brown as a brick.
Brown as tree bark.
Brown as chocolate fudge syrup.
Brown as fudge.
Brown as the potato that you cut up cook and then eat up.

 

Sean

Blue
Blue as a blue gill.
Blue as a blue car.
Blue as blue jelly.
Blue as an ocean.
Blue as the sky, bright and sunny.

 

Tony

Red
Red as a shirt.
Red as pants.
Red as a hat.
Red as shoes.
Red as eyes.
Red as humans when wide awake.

 

William 1

Blue
Blue as a little penguin.
Blue as an ocean.
Blue as a berry.
Blue as a part of the American flag.
Blue as the sky that storms through the night.

 

Alex

Brown
Brown as a house.
Brown as a mouse.
Brown as a bat.
Brown as a hat.
Brown as the chipmunk that crawls up a brown tree trunk and talks to another chipmunk.

 

William 2

Blue
Blue as a button.
Blue as a pair of jeans.
Blue as a pond.
Blue as a book.
Blue as the blimp flying so high in the sky.

 

Anna

Brown
Brown as a kangaroo.
Brown as a yak.
Brown as a bar.
Brown as a dog.
Brown as the monkey that swings from a branch to get a banana to eat for the day. 

 

Christopher

Brown
Brown as a warewolf.
Brown as a brownie.
Brown as a tree.
Brown as a desk.
Brown as the log that rolled down the hill.

 

Griffin 

Green
Green as a sea weed.
Green as a moss.
Green as a newts.
Green as a weed.
Green as the frog who likes to hide in the swamp and likes to eat flies.

 

Jack 

Blue
Blue as a fish squirming.
Blue as a shark.
Blue as a blueberry.
Blue as a blue book.
Blue as the coral that is colorful in the ocean.

  

Michael

Green
Green as an iguana.
Green as a tree.
Green as a Statue of Liberty.
Green as a bush.
Green as the laser that is a beam of light moving very fast like a bullet.

 

Olivia  

Yellow
Yellow as a lemon.
Yellow as a corn.
Yellow as a banana.
Yellow as a sun.
Yellow as the chick that has some milk, cuddles up with its mother and goes fast asleep.

 

Robert  

Blue
Blue as a sky that is very blue.
Blue as a ocean.
Blue as a part of the American flag.
Blue as a maker that is very blue.
Blue as the coral in the ocean and sharks are blue under the water

 

 

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