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Great Hearts

 
Poems inspired by whales, dolphins and sharks, after reading poetry by Zoe Bailey, Kit Wright andJudith Nicholls. We wanted to use some some similes (it is like...) and some metaphor (it is a...).
 
 
Deep Shark
   
  The blue black eyed speed boat
  Shot to it's deepest hiding place
  Waits for a flash of prey in the distance
  In a flash of fish life
  The killer beast loaded his jaws and
  His razor teeth skimmed the heart of the warm
  Blooded beastlike a knife drawn from its sheath
   
  Blood roamed the ocean as the poison dart shot away
   
 
by Alex S.
   
   
 
Silent & Deadly
   
  It saws through the forest like a wolf
  destroying any thing in its path.
  But half human but cold blooded.
  It tries to look like a whale
  but never gets away with it.
  Its teeth like razors sawing through the water
  everyone knows the howl of
  The Sea!
   
 
by Kane
   
 

A Glimpse of Shere Khan
 
Big cat poems inspired by 'A Glimpse of Shere Khan' by Chris Wallace-Crabbe. We wanted to use some alliteration, some rhyme, some made-up words to blend ideas together and for the pace of the poem to increase at the end.
 
 
 
 

The Furry Animal

   
  The Jungle was still
  A striped figure snuffing
  through the grass
  Black and orange coloured
 

strips slowly past

I could almost smell the

  sense of stripes.
   
  Trees hanging over us like
  green feathers
   
  The ground shook underneath
  our feet
  The cats face was light
  the site of his nose was
   
  frightening
   
  suddenly it pounced!
   
 
by Victoria
   
 
The Beast of the Beasties
   
 

In a vast open Asian plain

We were plodding along the

patient path before

   
 

I saw the Beady eyes.

The Baishirgripped my arm.

I held my Breath and when

I opened my eyes I just heard

   
 

the snuffle of the grass then
  shsss
   
  It was gone
   
 
by Jasmine