Perfect Poetry with Libby Hathorn

 Session 1: Delighting in Your Five Senses

For the live video session: go to Libby Hathorn’s Facebook page March 30

The Shape of a Poem

Long and skinny, a list, lots of white around it.

Sometimes rhymes and always has its own rhythm

Poetry is about our senses and our feelings

And poems are gifts

 

 

The Five Senses

We are going to make a beautiful poem today about our amazing senses. Through the five senses-sight, hearing taste touch and smell we experience the whole, wide, wonderful world!  (alliteration)

So let’s look around your world.

We’re all at home today and you may not know it but home is brim full of things that can stimulate t our senses. And our imagination is always at the ready…

 

SENSE OF SIGHT

SENSE OF TOUCH

SENSE OF SMELL

SENSE OF TASTE

SENSE OF HEARING

 

SIGHT

Colours are great image makers so choose a colour that you see e.g a red chair

And what the red chair might make you FEEL.

I see the red chair with my mother sitting near

I feel a cloud of happiness.

 

I see ___________________________________________

I feel________________________________________________

 

TOUCH

Textures are great on our fingers or our tongues. Think of something you like to touch e.g rough, smooth, furry, silky, prickly, downy, velvety, bumpy, jagged

And what the texture makes you think of, dream of…

I touch the velvety, woven Indian carpet

And dream of the strong hands that made it.

 

I touch  _______________________________________

And dream

 

SMELL

Smell is a strong sense we don’t often think about. Imagine the smell of  these:-Fire, toilet, flowers, herbs like basil, bread, cakes, hair,  perfume,

Great words for smell: aroma, bouquet, fragrance, whiff,  pong,  scent

I smell the uncomfortable aroma of my kitchen

And remember the burnt rice, so black!

I smell___________________________________________

And remember________________________________________________

 

TASTE

Taste is something we do every day; breakfast, lunch and tea, but often don’t talk about except to say Mmmm! or Yuck! It can be under your fingers or on your tongue.

Great words for taste: bitter, sour, sweet, honeyed, acidic, tangy

I taste the sudden bitterness of lemon

And recall the garden of my childhood.

 

 HEARING

Just listen to the room now. Maybe the sound of silence but not quite…

Great words for sounds: hums, echoes, thuds, reverberates, beats, jangle crunches, splashes, swishes

Take notice, perceive, heed, overhear

I hear the swish of passing cars outside

And imagine being taken into a mysterious forest!

 

I hear_______________________________________

And imagine

 

 

Now, you can go ahead and write your own poem.

 

The Perfect Poem with Libby Hathorn – Delighting in your 5 Senses

I see ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­__________________

I feel_________________

 

I touch

And dream

 

I smell

And remember

 

I hear

And imagine

 

I taste

And recall