It’s spooky season at Hale Elementary so we decided to write some scary poems! This week, we continued to practice the concept of imagery by pretending to be witches! The students wrote vivid descriptions for all the various ingredients needed to make a potion.
The Potion
by Ava P., Ava F., Annabella, Alexcia, and Olivia
4th grade
Making a potion!
Making a potion!
What do I need?
Making a potion!
Making a potion!
What do I need?
Poisoned hemlock whiter than paper
A newt with circled patterns
Shells that are very lump and bumpy
Yellow eyes of a werewolf
A rough beak
Smelly skeleton feet like pumpkin guts
Howls at night in the moonlight
The smells of poisoned hemlock like lysol
A newt that tastes like a bitter, sour apple
An ugly head with cracked teeth in a jar
A black feather
Seashells that taste like rocky road ice cream
The sounds of the waves moving up and down
Skeleton eye sockets
Slimy goo from a newt
A raven that smells like dirt
A werewolf’s nose that can smell a hundred miles away
Crushed skeleton bones
Shells that smell like an ocean breeze
The cracking eggs of a newt
Poisoned hemlock that has 1000 little screams
Now using my leather-bound spellbook
I stir
And stir
And stir!
And now
I’m rich!
Rich!
Rich!
With a bunch of candy
pink and white
that crackles in my mouth
and smells like caramel
and breaks up into tiny pieces
like slime!
