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
