Young Writers Society

In school, we're learning about poems, and I have to write 2 "Five-Sense Poem" on an emotion. I chose pain and passion. Pain was easy, but passion (love/hate type of passion) is a little harder. It's easier to understand if I give you an example:

Pain is black.
It sounds like a crying baby.
It feels like someone stabbed you in the back.
It smells like a burning home.
I tastes like a bleeding lip.

That's my poem for pain; this is my poem (so far) for passion:

Passion is red.
It sounds like the beating of the drum.
It feels like a fire is raging inside of you.
It smells like..?
It tastes like sweet victory.

I can't get the right word/words for the "It smells like.." part. Can you please suggest something to me? I would be so grateful.

I would totally put, "It smells like fear." Just because too often, people fear being passionate.

That's very true.

Do you have to start the lines with the words "It smells/feels/etc"? Or can you reword the lines?

Thanks for the idea! I'll try it!

We have a format that it has to be set in, so, yes, it does need smells/feels/ect.

Right right, but do the lines have to start with "It smells" or can you say something like "the stench of burning home enters the nostrils" instead? It's still a smell sense, but it mixes up the durogatory "It smell like burning home. It takes like sweet victory" blah blah.

I'm not that sure, actually. What did you have in mind?