New Writing group in the Fast track zone

This afternoon some keen Year 5/6 got together for our first Writer's group session together. We learned about using personification as a poetic device. Personification is the giving of a personal quality or human characteristic to something non-human. Here are two of our first poems:

The Balloon

By Eric Z

I flutter into the big blue sky,

swerving through the powerful winds.

Admiring all the looming clouds,

and putting smiles on happy kids.

Although I look warm and friendly,

Inside I'm young and frail and weak.

Because once I go too high and proudly rise,

I'll fall to the ground and meet my demise.


Lightning
By Zac R

I am angry and vicious because the dark sky is always trying to take over the winter,
I try to burst my light over the land,
So I can share my inner soul.
I am an ancestor of the sun and the blue sky,
I pretend to be the sun and the beautiful blue,
I hope that one day no one will curse me for setting fire to trees and bushes.