personification poems

Today the students learned about personification. They then chose qualities to personify, modeling their writing style after Ruth Gendler's, Book of Qualities.

Jealousy

Jealousy works in a toy shop.
He rides his bike, although he wants to ride in a limo.
He lives in the Amazon rainforest, on a mountain, in a cave, but wants to live in a mansion, but he can't make one.
He works at a toy shop right out of his rainforest home.
He was born in a shack, but out of his bedroom window he saw a grand mansion.
His best friends are Blame and Anger.
He would like to wear nice clean clothes, but all he has are old muddy clothes that look like rags.
He wears a hood and has never had his face seen.
His mother is Hatred and his father is Envy.

-Joseph

Anger

Anger lives in a house on a mountain, by the toy factory where she works as the manager.
She has a pet goat that can eat things that are about the same size as its mouth, like humans, crocodiles, or other things like that.
Anger practices archery in her spare time and can shoot a bulls-eye when she is blindfolded.
She eats steak and drinks soda.
She loves Blame and her friend is Jealousy.
She hates Kindness.
You do not want to meet her because she is a skilled hunter.

-Joseph

Honor

Honor is a Queen.
She lives in
England in a
towering palace behind
rolling meadows.
Her favorite color is red so she
wears a red velvet dress
with diamonds and jewels and
a long flowing cape and
always a crown.
her mother is Beauty and her
father is Power.
Her favorite food is wedding cake.
Her favorite activity is chess.
She always wins.

-Ella

Perfection

Perfection wears a blue silk dress
with pearl buttons, but always thinks
there is room for perfection.
Her golden locks fall lushly,
curling as they ripple down blue silk.
Perfection lives in a large white mansion
with pink lace curtains on every window,
but still thinks London is not
good enough for her.
One of her closest friends is Service,
although Perfection is always
perfecting her looks.
Beauty is another of Perfection's friends,
but she is treated much more fairly.
Her father is Honor - always favoring
his only child.
Her mother is Jealousy - always looking
down on her daughter disapprovingly.
Perfection's favorite activity is
perfecting one mistake after another.
She works at a large
dress designing shop, Chibara,
where people enjoy paying visits.
Perfection always knows
there is room for more.

-Estrella

Doubt

Doubt likes to copy.
I cannot describe what she looks like because
she always changes.
She changes outfits whenever
she is around another person,
with doubt that they will not like it.
Doubt is very trendy.
Doubt's only friend is Worry.
Doubt and Worry do not go to
dances or parties,
in fact they hardly ever leave the
apartment they share.
Their apartment's shutters are always shut.
Doubt never told anyone her secrets,
not even Worry.
She doubted anyone would keep them
a secret; she thought they would laugh.
Her mother's name was Secret
and her father was Scared.
She was an only child.
I cannot tell you what she likes
to do; she always changed.
She always had completely different
attitudes around every person.
Doubt was very doubtful.

-Eliana

Procrastination

Procrastination usually wears dirty clothes.
She always wants to do it on Monday
but ends up doing it on Friday at midnight.
She still goes to school and is always late.
Her homework is never on time
and in class she is always tired because
she stays up late doing things
she wanted to get done weeks ago.
Procrastination has many friends,
like Forgetfulness, but
never has time to play with them.
If you peeked in her window,
you may see her eating cold left-overs
while looking through papers or
unloading the dishwasher
or washing torn clothes.
She lives in a small, grey, shabby,
messy shack.
Procrastination never has time to do
any of her favorite activities,
such as reading and hanging out
with her friends because
she is always working.

-Eliana

Forgetfulness

Forgetfulness was lying on her bed,
trying to remember what she had forgotten.
Her name gives away her personality.
She is... well, forgetful.
She taught math class at Beluga High School.
Unfortunately, the kids in Forgetfulness's
class did not learn anything.
Her bed was the best place for her to
remember things.
When she was in her classroom,
she always forgot what she was teaching
and how to do it.
So she would go home at least
six times a day to remember her things.
Her closest friend was Procrastination,
but every time she invited her
over to play, she would forget,
which was rather good for Procrastination
because she never had time.
She was always invited to parties and plays
and intended to go, but unfortunately,
she would always forget.
She spent almost her whole life
on her bed and
she was always late for teaching.
Forgetfulness was very... well, forgetful.

-Eliana

Risk-taker

Risk-taker is ten years old
and loves adventures.
He goes to his friend,
Excitement's house every day.
He and Excitement
go sky-diving every day
after school off the peak of
Mount Jumbo.
Sometimes Joy comes along too.
He loves rock climbing.
He and Joy go on
long climbs together.

-Emiliano

Curiosity

Curiosity loves adventure.
He likes to study the
colorful animals in the rainforest.
His job is working at war.
He lives in a giant mansion
with paintings all over
the house because
Creativity is his mom and
Boredom is his dad.
He wears draggy clothes.
Weirdness is his friend.

-Garet

Greed

Greed is a pirate
roping a princess and
making her walk the plank.
You can hear
the princess screaming - Ahhh -
and then you hear
the pirate laughing - Ha ha ha.
The pirate is as
scary as a zombie,
if you see him
you would scream.

-Max

Balance

Balance is a big girl and she is a very famous
teacher of gymnastics.
She thinks of being on the balance beam
that is about a mile off of the ground.
She has a sister that is named Victory.
Her sister, Balance, is always teaching Victory
gymnastics and she doesn't have
any parents.
That is Balance!

-Nina

Stupidity

Stupidity is 1, 371 years old and a boy
who thinks he's a girl.
Stupidity works at Fuzzy Wigs and
is supposed to sell candy,
but instead all he does is eat it.
Stupidity loves to pick his nose and
stick the boogers in his ears.
The sticky boogers clog his brain
that's why he's so dumb.
Stupidity lives in a humongous pink
wedding dress.
Stupidity has one friend.
Her name is Ugliness.
Stupidity thinks she is beautiful
but she's actually ugly.
He likes to wear Dora underpants.
His favorite food is monkey guts.

-Max


Happiness

Happiness lives on a tiny island in a
good sized log cabin. He has a gigantic backyard
about half of the size of a football field.
He wears a green sweatshirt,
the color of moss like an old man's beard.
When Happiness moves,
he zooms like a race car.
One day Happiness got on to his dad's big
boat and went to Texas and got an XBoX 360 play station
and football stuff. Then they went
back to their little island.
Happiness is on summer break.

-Ben


Triumph

Triumph is a strong, tall man.
His specialty is doing Olympics in Berlin, Germany.
He lived in California, USA, until he realized that
he had amazing talents and he thought of the most
triumphant city in the world and
he came up with Berlin, Germany.
He always brags with his friends about
how good he is at sports
like Hockey, Basketball, Baseball, Soccer, Tennis,
Handball, Racketball, Football, Cricket,
Chess, Poker, Spoons, and Blackjack.
His mother is Incredible and
his father is Awesomeness.
They both have a very interesting history.
Triumph's best friend is Victory
because they have everything in common
but Triumph is way better than Victory
because he always gets the Triumph.
Triumph always wears a blood red robe
with medals all around his neck and
ribbons around his body.
Triumph's four friends are
Memory, Glory, Victory, and Sadness.
You would never want to meet him
because you would get sucked up into
his power to be one of his people
who tell him how great he is.

-Calvin

Fear

She likes to sit criss cross and be a Buddhist.
She lives in Paris.
She likes to wear blue and black clothing.
She has only one friend and she is Interest.
Her father is Glory.
Her sister is Memory and her brother is Power.
Her closest friend is Interest.
She fears Loneliness and Sadness.
She is very quiet and cooperative.

Her name is Fear.

-Ian

Evil

Evil is the most
unappreciated weirdo
in town and his
ability is completely
disliked which is creating
blasters to blast
robots. When he cruises
around town in his
starship many
people gasp in
horror, afraid he'll
blast them like
his robots. His name
is Zorg.

-Aidan

Love

Love is a girl
that in her spare time
goes to play soccer every night.
She goes to a school that has fun stuff
like games and loves to play the ones that have running.
She lives in the biggest mansion of all time
and her friends are Sadness and Joy.
She wears a silver dress every day
and her mom is Hate and
her dad is Worry.
She has two annoying brothers
and her best friend is Sadness and everybody laughs at them.
She is very shy and does not like to talk out loud.
She has long brown hair and
her eyes are bright blue as the sky
and she is very skinny.

-Bruce

Creativity

Creativity wears a gold floating dress
that wraps around her ankles
that flows when she walks
in the forest with her animal friends.
She lives in a very old house,
well, it's actually a painting,
and the painting is exciting and beautiful
and it's a painting of a giant art studio with four floors.
I really like her house.
I think it's very unique in so many ways.

-Avery

Anger

Anger wears a black sparkly dress and she has blond hair.
Anger is a girl.
She likes to pick on her brother and sister and make herself pretty.
Anger was thinking of inviting her friends, but her mom and dad said no.

-Wren

Creativity

Creativity is a boy.
His job is an artist.
His favorite games are iPod, Monopoly, blocks, math.
He lives in Hollywood with his friends, Dark, Excellent, and Evil.
He wears gangster clothes.
His mom is Commitment.
His dad's name is Army.
His closest friend is Excellent.

-Oliver

Blame

Blame works at a toy shop with his best friends, Anger and Jealousy.
He lives in a hollow tree in the Amazon rainforest.
He hates Kindness and is in love with Anger.
When he was very young, he broke a ball and blamed it on his former friend, Envy.
He likes to climb trees in his spare time, but always breaks his bones.
He eats rat tails and mangoes, bananas and berries.
He makes things that kids love, such as bouncing balls,
and gets paid $100 year (which is not that much for a grown-up).

-Joseph

Victory

Victory is a man who loves challenging
other people, but no one ever can beat him.
His favorite thing to do is play sports.
His absolute favorite is skiing because he
loves the feeling of glory when he
races down the shiny, white hill.
He lives on a bridge that goes over a waterfall.
His best friend is Awesomeness.
All his clothing is gold.
His mom is Humor, his dad is Weirdness,
his sister is Amazing. Together they
win all the games they play with the neighbors.
Victory loves to visit big cities like New York
because he likes to see all the different
kinds of people there. His favorite thing to do
is take challenges.

-Marcus

Elegance

Elegance is a teacher
in an elegant school.
Her favorite thing to teach the children
is how speak correctly.
Elegance likes to dance in the living room
in a dress of blue and white flowers.
She also likes to sing in public.
Elegance lives in a blue, 100 story house
with her black cat Kay.
Elegance has two friends, Love and Wonder.
Elegance loves to wear blue gowns that
glitter and sparkle that go down to her feet.
Elegance's parents are Anxiety and Frustration
but they died when she was three.
When Elegance feels sad she goes
and picks flowers from a meadow by her house.
She takes them home where she puts them
in a blue vase.
The flowers make her think of her parents
and then she feels a little bit better.

-Sage

Happiness

Happiness's job at school is to make sure
everyone is in their line when the bell rings.
Happiness picks flowers for her parents every evening.
The types of flowers she picks are daisies, sunflowers and tulips.
Happiness lives in a cottage at the edge of the woods by
the pond filled with colorful rocks and fish.
She has one friend named Shyness.
Shyness and Happiness love to pick flowers
for each of their parents.
Happiness wears her favorite gold dress
with flowers on it.
Her mother is Thoughtful and her
father is Angry. Her sister is Playful and
her brother is Hateful.
Hateful hates Happiness.
But Happiness just ignores him.

-Marie

Risk-Taker

Risk-Taker blasts down the
double black diamond. She hurries to the chairlift
to get to the top mountain so she can
fly down the icy ski run.
After a long day of skiing,
Risk-Taker drives to her fancy white apartment.
She puts on her silky dress.
She asks her friends, Confidence, Thinker and Creativity
to come by her place so they can
go sledding down the hill by her house.
Risk-Taker loves to ski, even though
she is 90 years old.
You might still see her coming down the
old backside at Discovery.

-Paige



Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm loves playing football.
When he's not playing football,
he paints pictures of football players
and speaks in French.
He lives underground.
He wears a blue leotard because
he also likes to do gymnastics.

-Beckett

Fear

Fear is a man that can do
anything in the military.
He always carries a gun with him.
Fear has a crabby old mom and dad.
His brother and sister died in World War I.
No one knows where he lives.

-Nathan

Surprise

Surprise is great!
He works as a delivery room
doctor at a hospital.
When he's not at the hospital,
he shoots hoops, swims and plays football.
He wears sweat pants and a tee shirt
because it's easy to go from activity to activity.
One bad thing is he always has to see you
and that's hard because he
lives on Mt. Everest.
Only his family and I
have been up there to his house.
He was in the army like my friend,
Excitement. In the army, we all
did the same job. We all have
a badge of honor.

-Finn


Weirdness

Weirdness is...well...weird.
He walks around New York City, usually
vandalizing some billboard with his closest friend, Fear.
Or maybe he paints an odd mural on an old wall downtown,
with his other friend, Creativity.
He lives in a misshapen apartment that has no electricity but
Weirdness still keeps a microwave and stove.
For food he buys some unhealthy enchiladas from a nearby McDonald's.
Once he has his food, he casually drips some moldy syrup in his mouth
straight from the bottle, for sweetness.
Weirdness always wears his lucky Yankees baseball cap
turned to the side. He also wears a shirt that clearly states,
"I Love Hannah Montana."
With those clothes he wears some boring old sweat pants.
He is not very close to his parents who are
Respect and Confidence.
His father owns the Hershey's Company, but does not share his money.
Respect, Weirdness's mother, is very respectful to Confidence,
which means she's not much nicer to her son.

-Will

Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm is very strong.
His favorite color is red
and he really, really likes sports.
Enthusiasm's favorite CD is
Angus Young's, AC/DC.
Enthusiasm has big, buggy eyes
and is very, very strong.
He always gives 100% effort and loves track.
His favorite game to play with his buddies is leapfrog.

-Jack

Empathy

Empathy love to work at her job as a doctor.
In her spare time, she plays piano or
listens to her friend's problems.
She lives in a big, cozy house in Mexico.
Her closest friends are Love, Excitement and Elegance.
Empathy loves to wear long, silky pink dresses.
Her mother is Glory,
her father is Risk-Taker and her
sister is Joy.
She loves to eat potatoes, play games and the color pink.
One day she longs to visit Antarctica.
Empathy dreams that one day she'll live in Florida.

-Dana

Shyness

Shyness likes to take walks in the outdoors and
sing to the animals.
She likes to take walks because she is
a very happy person.
She wears a white dress and white shoes with
black eyeshadow and red lipstick.
Shyness has blond hair and painted fingernails.
Shyness works as a librarian.
Shyness has lots of secrets.

-Ellie

Disgust

Disgust lives in the darkest part of the sewer.
He only has one friend, Evil.
Evil only appears in times of horror.
Although Evil doesn't stay long, Disgust gets
very satisfied. Disgust doesn't get offered
many jobs so he makes his own, Sewer Monitor.
Disgust makes sure everyone is doing things
without thought.

-Liza

Curiosity

Curiosity is always noticeable in a crowd because
she always looks different.
She is different in a way that
you will never meet anyone else like her.
She loves purple, but never wears it.
In fact, you can usually see her in a sun skirt
but a winter shirt. Her house is half blue and
half yellow and her best friend is Creativity.
When they draw together, they are quite unusual.
Her hair is brownish-red.
She never talks but she asks
amazing questions.
Curiosity is mysterious.

-Whitney

Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm zings into the room with a
hop and a sizzle.
Every day, she goes to her job as a
gymnastics teacher. She hears enthusiasm,
from her team.
After work, she goes to a BBQ party where she
devours ribs, cor bread, coleslaw and beans.
She drinks beer, root beer and wine
(she has a hard time making decisions).
Enthusiasm lives in Hollywood.
Sometimes in the park when she's
walking in her high heels, shorts and tank-top
with the navy's pattern,
she sees movie stars.
She busts in and shouts, "Hello!"

-Miko

Adorable

Adorable is a girl.
She is very bright.
Her job as a pet store owner can be hard,
but Adorable doesn't let it get the best of her.
In her spare time, she draws beautiful
mountains or walks her three gorgeous dogs,
Jellybean, Pumpkin and Cocoa.
Adorable lives in an adorable little house in Sapas.
She wears blue shorts and a white tee shirt.
Her mother is Mrs. Weird, her father is
Mr. Commitment and her sister is
Enthusiasm. Adorable has 1000 cousins who
are very adorable,
just like her.

-Gillian

Wisdom

Sometimes you can see Wisdom
riding her horses in the golden, glittering mountains,
or maybe tap-dancing all afternoon on the old,
scratched up wood mansion floor, or maybe,
competing in gymnastics doing routines
and front flips or, maybe,
books in her bed,
imagining far away lands like
Candyland on day's that are cold or
doing baby on the same scratched up floor.
If Wisdom is not doing any of those things,
she's out saving animals.
Well, that is her job.
Her mom is Creativity and her dad is Ignorance.
Her sister is Beauty.
Her closest friend is Curiosity.
Finally, her other friend is Change.

-Avery

Creativity

Creativity likes tie dye wall drawing.
After drawing plays outside in the cool, cold breeze
and after praying, Creativity will go
to her job as an artist. Then she finally
travels to Antarctica.
She puts on her wonderful, crazy beads and sings
her most lovely, favorite song,
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
After she sings, she goes home to
her colorful mansion and puts on
her wonderful, shiny, tie-dye dress for
a meal of yummy, delicious sushi.

-Sophie

Pain

Pain is always moaning in fear.
He tumbles down the rocky hills,
holding a gun from his days in the military
in his dark, bloody hands.
Then he stumbles into his red hut where his
mother, Terror, is waiting for him
(she was leaving to go to a horror movie).
He eats all his wasabi then
marches back up to war.
His feet ache and his arms and legs bulge.
His head swells up and he can see,
he is making his way to more pain.

-Hayden

Caring

Caring is protective.
She lives in a big house with a dog, cat and rat.
Her best friend is Creativity.
Caring wears a blue dress with black sparkles.
She doesn't walk but skips to her favorite place,
the park, where she plays with kids.
Her favorite book is called, "Emalie."
She travels to Hawaii and plays with the dolphins.

-Wren

Craziness

Craziness's occupation is to cause total chaos.
He'll jump off honey combs and slap pies in
Calmness's face. He will eat six ice-cream cones
for every meal. He smashes glass dishes in
everyone's faces. He'll jump till he brakes
all the white house windows.
He lives in an upside down house
in the middle of the park, in the city.
His friends are Joy, Interest and Creativity.
He wears colorful shirts with polka dots and stripes
that are so bright, you need to squint
just to see him in them. Anyway,
he's too fast to see.
His sister is Calmness and Craziness
drives her WILD! His mom is Glory and his dad is Worry
and they all act with the same attitude around Craziness,
worried, worried, SCARED!
Craziness will always be the same.
I'm sure of that.

-Hannah



Jealousy

Jealousy works in a toy shop.
He rides his bike to work,
although he wants to ride in a limo.
He lives in the Amazon rainforest on
a mountain in a cave, but wants
to live in a mansion but can't make one.
He works at a toy shop, right out of
his rainforest home. He was born in a shack
but out of his bedroom window,
he saw a grand mansion.
His best friends are Blame and Anger.
He would like to wear nice, clean clothes
but only has old, muddy clothes that
look like rags.
He wears a hood and does not like to be seen.
His mother is Hatred and his father is Envy.

-Joseph

Imagination

When Imagination walks into a room,
you can always hear her coming because she sings a little song.
People stop what they are doing and look at her.
First they notice her black, shiny rain boots.
Then they notice her short, goldish brown hair and the
purple barrette on the side of her head.
Everyone wants to be her friend.
After school, Imagination plays violin in the meadow by herself.
She lives in the mostly green forest filled with her animal friends.
The deer, rabbits and little mice love to
dance to Imagination's playful music.

-Lily Baumes

Creativity

Creativity bikes to work as an art teacher.
She loves the wind when it rushes through her.
It reminds her of her favorite art piece, "The Woman."
After she bikes home to her little house in Paris,
she feels cold in her worn out jeans and old apron.
She calls her friends Interest, Uniqueness and Craziness
to see if they want to come over and paint.
But then her mother, Glory, and father, Triumph
say no because the last time Craziness was over,
she broke all the windows.

-Maya

Envy

Envy is an old man.
He has a long, black beard.
He works at a small jail in London and
lives in a small, shabby apartment -
the lights are always off.
Envy usually sleeps during the day unless
he is at the bar.
He hates the light,
that si why he sleeps in the day and
wanders at night. Every Monday at midnight,
Envy walks slowly to the bowling alley.
He never plays against anyone, he goes alone.
He hardly hits a pin, partly because he does not
really try.
He does not have any friends, he does not want any.
His mother was Blame,
his father was Criticism.
His sister was Anger and his parents
favored her.
Envy always wears a heavy black overcoat,
no one knows what he wears under that because
he has never taken it off.
His favorite food is octopus tentacles.
In fact, he will not eat anything else.
Envy is always envious.
He has no friends.

-Eliana

Imagination

Imagination is a small thing.
She has short blond hair which she always wears in pigtails.
She is Envy's stepsister but he never mentions her.
He hates her.
Imagination does not care.
She has enough imagination to keep her busy.
She always wears sundresses, all different kinds.
She wears tank tops in the winter but
she is never cold.
Like Envy, she loves to go bowling
but with her friends. They run in, order lemonades
and BOWL! She does not have any best friends,
she likes everyone. Her father is Positivity,
her mother is Happiness.
She has so many siblings she cannot remember their names.
Besides, she'd rather call them by the names
she creates like Loud Mouth and Big Mess.
She lives in big mansion in Africa.
She likes snow cones and all different kinds of juices.
Imagination has a big imagination!

-Eliana

Empathy

As Empathy slowly walks to a new school,
she thinks about how scared other people are
and her too.
She is a young and shy girl.
In school she learns to write poems and stories.
After school, she runs back to her grass hut and
paints abstract paintings for the sad, poor people
to sell. She'll give them the money she makes.
Empathy calls to her friend, Activity, to run on the field
while she grabs her light brown cape and
pulls it over her yellow pants and shirt.
They roll int he grass for over an hour
and decide to have a picnic with potatoes,
bananas, bread and carrots.
Empathy thinks Activity likes her home.
And so does she.

-Ellie Jenni

Excellence

Excellence wears a red tie,
black shirt and blue jacket.
Excellence is the president
of the country, Excitement.
Excellence is married to
Kindness and his children are
Perfect and Beautiful.
The family likes to go on trips
together to Hawaii. In Hawaii they
go to the beach where they
build sandcastles and surf.
His best friend is Creativity.

-Collin