‘To be hapcited’: Emotion Poems

Students talked about and then wrote poems about emotions using personification and other poetic devices. Some students created new emotions to write about by combining two existing emotions.

Lesson Note: “Developing creativity in students is not a luxury.” How Social-Emotional Imagination Facilitates Deep Learning and Creativity in the Classroom, Cambridge Univ. Press.

Ms. Hernandez 7th Grade

Happiness Elijah H.

Happiness is like a sunrise on a summer morning

Happiness is the fun hidden in every nook and cranny

Happiness is the heart that beats every minute

Happiness is the little things

Happiness is

Happiness Adalee H.

Happiness lives in that yellow painted cottage.

She has ocean eyes and golden hair.

She says she is in everyone just some people

have more of her than others.

You will see her when you go on that trip to Hawaii.

You will see her when you get accepted to your dream school.

You will see her when you hold that boy’s hand.

Her sister is Joy.

It’s a very happy family.

She is friends with Courage and Hope

They get along very well

She stays away from Evil and Envy.

To keep away the bad energy.

Mrs. McClain 8th Grade

Sadessed Liam P.

Walking through the streets

Rain starts to pour down like the clouds crying

Harder

Harder

And harder

Drenched…

As I was walking all of the others ran into their homes

While I stayed walking… one foot

After the other foot

After the other foot

Soon coming to complete stop

A tear had rushed down my cheek

Realizing…….

There is no home to go back to.

Mrs. McClain 8th Grade

Hapcited Miles F.

To be hapcited

To be happy

To be exited

To be both happy and exited

To feel like a kid

To feel like your opening presents

To feel like you’re a flying cloud

To feel like you’re having fun

To act like a dancing tree

To act like the wind blowing

To act like a bumbling bumble bee

To act like a waddling penguin

To move like a crazed kid

To move like a bush in an aggressive wind

To move like an exciting TV show

To move like a gift being opened

To become like a kid

To become like a bush in aggressive wind

To become like the wind

To become hapcited.

Stress Benjamin D.

Stress looks like a man in the corner

Slowly getting closer

Stress is the feeling you have in your chest

The feeling of being shoved into a room that to tight

And locking the door

He likes to hide in plain sight

Waiting for the right moment to jump at his prey

Like a panther

I see him almost instantly

Jumping in front of me before i even notice

Hes there

Like a rain cloud

Always above my head

His best friend anxiety

They play together at school or in aspen

Him and her are inseparable

Always coming as a package deal

Never just one of them

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