Student Work - Name poems

Note: The formatting of the poems has been preserved as closely as possible, including alignment and line spacing. Actual names have been removed to observe the student's privacy.

My Name

My name is the color of blue,
It is my favorite color
It sounds like the wind blowing gently
[NAME] feels like flowers flowing in the air
My name is like the number 5, like my birthday
My name is made out of my parents
My name looks like flowers in a meadow
My name smells like my next door neighbor's cat, because it is
black and fuzzy
My name is like a kid packed in a quilt
I can spy my name in the ABC's
Sometimes my name sits on the chalkboard when I don't do
something
I feel very happy about my name,
I like it that way.

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My Name

My name is a pattern of
  Darkish green,
    With flowers.
      Bouncing
        And flowing
          And sliding
            Over my tongue.
      It is warm and
      Persuasive, like
        The number 70.
      My name is made of me.
      The scent of Peaches
      Creeps to my nose,
      As I look at my deeper than deep
      Name.

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My Name

My name is
the red
like an apple or cherry,
My name sounds
like the breaking of waves
when you're at
the beach,
My name looks like
a boat
cruising along the sea,
my name is
the number 11
respectful
and kind,
My name smells like
cherries on
an ice cream sundae.

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My Name

My name is strong
Bold like a gladiator
my first and middle names
they do not sound like that
but that's what this
yellow streak sounding name means
my last name makes me think
that my ancestors owned a fort
although they did nor
my uncle wanted to name me Gurn,
a mane dirty as a shoe
but my parents refused.

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A Very Cool Name

My name is as red as cherries
I imagine my name like number 8, a perfect
number, also my favorite
Thinking of my name makes me picture moose
tracks ice cream
The syllable of my name sounds like a donkey's
heeehaw
My name smells like cheesecake, a very string
smell
My name is very cool.

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[NAME]

My name is the color of
a warm summer sky.
It sounds like
birds chirping softly,
in a spring shower.
The name [NAME] feels like
a soft kitten,
resting in the morning sun.
My name is like
the number 4,
young,
full of life.
It is made out of
red,
crisp apples.
[NAME] looks like
the country valleys of Mississippi.
My name smells like
fresh saw dust,
blowing rapidly in the wind.
My name means,
"woman of god".

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The Number One Name

My name
is a bright green
It sounds like people clapping at a baseball
game
and it is made out of baseball too.
The name I have is the number 0,
very boring
I have a name that looks like pancakes on a
Saturday morning
My name smells like my puppy at home

My name is [NAME]

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Our Name

My name is made out of the clothes of her sewing
and it smells of smoke from the gas chambers.
My name is the color of brown-
her eyes,
and mine.

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[NAME]

My name smells

like butterscotch

it feels like soft cotton

my name is red

it sounds like rain hitting a trash can

It is like the number 14

an ace in a card deck.

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My Name

My name sounds like drums in a parade
Yellow is the color I think my name sounds like.

Natal lily is the flower that sounds just right for my name.
A number for my name is the number 5, the age I was when I learned to spell my entire name.
My name feels like kitten's fur.
Everyone should know that my name is made out of carnations blooming.

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My Name Is...

 

My name is the color of the leaves on a tree in spring.

My name sounds like a jazz song from the 70'.

My name feels like a soft quilt on a warm summer day at a picnic.

My name is like the number nine.

My name is made out if glass as blue as the sky.

My name looks like a pond on a rainy day.

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My Name

 

My name is the color of a brown log

My nickname sounds like a log-cutter, because it reminds me of a beaver

My nickname feels like a furry rodent

My nickname is made out o fur

My nickname looks like a beaver

My name smells like a dead fish

My nickname is the number 86, because it just comes to mind.

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My Name

 

My first name is as stubborn as a teacher in the sixties,

My name is as green as an evergreen tree,

as green as grass in spring,

My name is the number 5,

a grand number because it is the lowest number that rounds up.

 

My last name is outrageous,

at least my real last name,

as for [LAST NAME],

that is only the last name of the man who took care of my

grandfather: [GRANDFATHER'S NAME]. My real last name is [LAST NAME 2].

[LAST NAME] sounds like a political name,

like the name of a president.

[LAST NAME] is the number 50,

the number of states in the USA.

 

(Note: I thought that the comments about his last name (sounding like a president's name, etc.)- which had been anglicized, were quite on the ball

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The Name For
Me

My name means Forest, Mountain and Happy
It's sort of bluish
like a blueberry
And sort of red
like a cherry
I guess a purple grape would complete it
I'm as quiet as a forest
in the night
But bright and happy
in the morning
My name is sour now
later sweet
My first name describes what I'm not
Yellow Original Sleepy Loser Ratty****
My last name does describe me
Isosceles Pleasant Loving****
I stand tall
Like a Mountain
That's me
Don't wear it out

**** I have changed the sequences and exact words used here to protect his identity - but the first letter of the string of words spelled out his first and last names, respectively.

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[FIRST NAME MIDDLE NAME LAST NAME]

[FIRST NAME] means war, fighting, and killing.
[FIRST NAME] may mean all these horrid entertainments of man
but I am exactly the opposite
peace-loving and happy.
The very image of changing my name is a torment
to my very soul.
My name and I are infinity
we live on forever.
Pronouncing my name is like ringing a beautifully delicate bell.
Soon that bell will be rung all over in the name of the
best soccer player in existence.
This name is my treasure
rarer than the rarest diamond or any pirates booty.
It sparkles like the most divine ruby.
I am its master and it is mine.

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Name

My name means a lot to me
It's something I write on paper
Something that I type on the computer
I'm called by that name and that name alone
It's something that I will always remember
Some people say my name
 [Misspelled NAME]
  [Misspelled NAME 2]
   [Misspelled NAME 3]
    [Misspelled NAME 4]
And even [NICKNAME]
But it will always remain [NAME]

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