Students wrote poems about nature, and many used poetic devices such as simile, metaphor, and personification. Read the poems below or download the PDFs.
I See Awakeness of Nature
I see awakeness of nature.
I fell the snowdrops pop out.
I taste sumanak in Navruz.
I hear twittering of birds.
I smell the fresh air from the mountains.
I think spring is good for going to picnic.
by The English Club Students from Tajikistan
My Dream
If I were a butterfly
I’d fly everywhere,
Sucking honey and lapping my wings,
Through the flower yards like
Angels’ paradise;
Over the hills
Across the wind
Strive to obtain honey with bees
They are hidden under the huge leaves…
by Piumi and Ganesha from Access Sri Lanka
The Stars
The stars dance in an endless
elegant pirouettes
Static, yet graceful movements
Sparkling like dewdrops
on dark leaves in the vastness
of the universe
Their rhythm beat with our hearts.
by Jean from the Philippines
A Love Reborn
Come, little sunshine,
Reflect into my heart
That it may see Love
Again in her pure state.
Come, soothing spring water,
Sprinkle a few into my wound
That it may cease to hurt
Come, rainbow, come.
Shower me with your splendor
That I may find this Love worth of her rebirth.
by Jean from the Philippines
In The Forest of The Night
Green, black and cold,
The moon,
The witness
In the forest in the night
Two species together:
The animals and I
In the forest
In the night.
Green, black and cold
A witness with an eye.
by Berenice from Mexico
Nature
How peaceful and wonderful it is
As pure as an angel’s kiss
As bright as an angel’s heart
Its hope lighten up the sky
Its faith colours the grass
And its truth keeps the living alive
All creature great and small
All things bright and beautiful
All birds that sang a song
The love that whispers
The joy that flies around
The sound that laughs upon
The soldier it all
The prince have done it all
The nature created it all.
by Mehlape from Access South Africa
The Sun
The Sun!
Sun is only one – just one
The Sun is a star
The Sun looks like a big ball
The Sun is only one
It’s not coal like ice
It’s very hot like fire
The Sun
Sun is only one
Just one just one
The sun is just one
From Access Pakistan
The Spring Sky
A scrap of heaven
Brushed with green watercolors
Outside my window.
by Margaret from Poland
Spring
The sky is weeping
Teardrops on the windowpane
The green bursts outside.
by Margaret from Poland
Winter
Snow covers your trail
White flakes fall mercilessly
Silent rejection
by Margaret from Poland
The Stars and the Moon
The stars are bright
The moon is shiny
I see the stars and moon
Shining all above the sky
The sky is beautiful and clear
I wish I could fly
So I could reach the sky
I wish I could touch the sky
Oh, the sky is shining
When is the sky coming
When am I going to touch the stars and moon
by Palesa from Access South Africa
Dégage To The Garbage
The earth should be clean
Let's help keep it green
Let's help the government protect the environment
Think about it please
Would you come with us and plant some trees
And even some flowers to help out the bees
Even the butterflies and the bird will sing
When the green ozone become king
If I was the mayor I will save the ozone layer
Like a hero football player
Who Saves the day With an amazing play
Help us find solution
So we can put an end to this pollution
Let's save the fish
By eliminating the rubbish
You don't need cash
To pick up the trash
You can do it in a flash
We say "dégage " To the garbage
And while we are at it, let's get rid of smoking
We are all really tired of all this choking
Let's let every day be an earth day
Not just once a year like your birthday
by From Access Tunisia
The Stars
The stars dance in an endless
elegant pirouettes
Static, yet graceful movements
Sparkling like dewdrops
on dark leaves in the vastness
of the universe
Their rhythm beat with our hearts.
by Maria from Philippines
Curse Not The Darkness, My Son
Curse not the darkness, my Son
when the moon is by the sun
not reflected of its light
and the stars are out of sight.
Curse not the darkness, my Son.
Get a match and light a candle.
Let its shimmering glow, be able
to radiate throughout the dark.
Let every flicker warm
the tip of every leaf of the trees
whose breath sighs with the breeze.
Let every ray send warmth of its chill
from the grove to the windmill.
Let every glimmer give hope
to anyone out there with a rope.
Let every twinkle stir a troubled soul
who is standing on a cliff about to fall.
I tell you, my Son.
Curse not the darkness.
It gives way to the sun
at dawn rises with its brightness.
by Maria from Philippines
Why animals bother me….
Donkey, monkey, lion, and tiger
I hate the animals either
They are horrible and dirty of course
Donkey is a fool, monkey is restless, lion is furious
And tiger is merciless
Hippo, turtle, alligator, and dog
They always give me a shock
Hippo is having big teeth
Alligator is powerful eating beast
And turtle is better but very slow
I simply hate animals.
by Abdul from Access Pakistan
Watching Clouds
I like to look up into the sky
And watch the clouds go sliding by
I like to see them, large and small; I like to try to count them all
I like them when they’re dark before the rain begins to pour and pour
I like to see them shaped like faces or maps of many different places…
I’m glad when clouds are in the sky so I can watch them sliding by…
by Muneeba from Pakistan
Rainbow Poem
Rainbow purple rainbow blue
Rainbow green and yellow too
Rainbow orange rainbow red
Rainbow smiling over head
Rainbow rise after raining
Rainbow has seven colors
It looks like a colorful flower on the sky
by Access Program Pakistan
Poem
The plants are beautiful
Their soft petals
Make me crazy
Their fragrance
Make my crazy
Their leaves are green
Flowers colourful petals
Make me crazy They look
Precious in rainy season. This
Season make me crazy
by Access Program Pakistan
In the End, Hope
Winter is the saddest season.
We can’t know the reason.
We only learn the lesson:
Winter is the saddest season.
In the winter, the trees are sad.
Like a soul, the weather is cold.
And the love that we had,
Went away and grew old.
Fortunately, the winter will pass
Now, we celebrate the rain
Let’s be less and less sad
‘Cause we can be happy again!
by Pedro from Access Brazil
Full Moon
Full moon
When she comes
Splendid in the moonlight
Who is she,
That moon to illuminate?
Its brightness is so intense
The stars hide.
I wanted to know
Where it goes,
When the clouds
Take their place.
Tamiris and Juliana from Access Brazil
Poem
Green Parrot Sing
Sing of the Days
Beyong the Cage
Sing of the Days
In mango Grooves
Sing of the Forest
Blossoms in trees.
Sing of the trees
In the swaying rain
Sing of the singing.
by Sumaira from Pakistan
The Sun
The Sun!
Sun is only one, just one.
The sun is a star.
The sun looks like a big ball.
The sun is only one.
It’s not cold like ice.
It’s very hot like fire.
The Sun.
Sun is only one
Just one just one
The sun is just one.
by Rimsha from Access Pakistan
The World
hundreds of stars in the pretty sky
hundreds of shells on the shore together
hundreds of birds that go singing by
hundreds of birds in the sunny weather
hundreds of dewdrops to great the dawn
hundreds of bees on the purple clover
hundreds of butterflies on the lawn
but one mother the wide world over
by Abdelrahmen from Egypt
Closed Clouds
Closed clouds
Eclipsed the Sun
Subsided sounds
Soon will people run.
You feel the gentle breeze?
It’s calm before the storm, it is
You see the sky as lead?
And darkness more
This weather spring
And thunder roar
Then lightning flashed
And fallen drop
Then rain splashed
You feel the light commotion?
And freedom sense
Of crashed emotions?
I like this season tense
I like this weather dance.
by Roman
Together....We Make
Few flowers on the verge of vale
Tossing, dancing vivacious
Making the aura mellifluous
In the company of each other
They are narcissus.
by Adiba from India
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