5E's Ancient Greece Poetry

This week we began our new half term topic of Ancient Greece. After learning about the culture of Ancient Greece, we wrote poetry concerning Mount Olympus and its various gods, particularly focusing on Zeus and Hades. We were aiming to improve our use of metaphors.

Below is Malakai's poem:

Mount Olympus, haven of many gods enthroning earth,

The predominant mountain of Greece emphasizing power, mirth.

Magical misty clouds amidst soaring figures,

Enclosing courageously in milky-gold fractures,

Home of Zeus, sagacious ruler of the skies,

Possessing power from the lighting rod,

Omnipotent and carved illustriously,

Confining thoughts of his brother's doom ,

To an impenetrable trap ensnared beneath the ground.

Caked in peppermint flame ,

Robed in feathery wings of midnight bats ,

Tarrying eternally amongst craving psyches,

Hades urges his potential wisdom depart,

In return far precarious respect,

Yet fearing future demise.

Gods of the cherished mountain,

Memories blackening the etched wood of our minds,

A miracle leaping with high hope,

Beyond the bounds of reality,

Or mere fascinating fable?