How to Smell a Poem

You slowly pick it out of a field of sunny poems.
Be careful , the similes may make you sneeze!

Take some metaphor medicine so you don’t sniffle.

Drink in the wonderful smell and breath it out slowly.
See, you smelled a poem!

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Marissa Angell, Age 11
Chemung Valley Montessori
Elmira, New York
Teacher: Sheila Reed