WHEN I GET ANGRY: An Original Poem

 

Some time ago, I got an idea for a collection of poems titled The Animal in Me. In the poems, children would imagine themselves to be like certain animals at times depending on how they felt. For example, an angry child might feel like he/she was a grizzly bear--or a child being sent to his/her room as punishment might feel like a big cat trapped in a cage. The collection never went too far. Here is one of the poems from it.

 

WHEN I GET ANGRY

 

When I get angry, I’m a bear…

A grizzly bear

With coarse brown hair

And teeth that tear.

You best beware!

 

When I get angry,

I clench my paws

And snap my jaws.

I prowl and growl

Around my room

And fuss and fume

And stomp the floor

And slam my door…

 

Till

I’m not angry anymore.

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Laura Purdie Salas has the Poetry Friday Roundup at Writing the World for Kids.

http://laurasalas.com/poems-for-teachers/sacred-land-poetry-friday-roundup/