Valentine Poems for Kids

If You Were My Star

If you were my shining star

And I were your midnight,

I’d let you shine above me,

You’d be my only light.

* * *

If You Were My Piano

If you were my grand piano

And I were a sweet love song,

I’d let your keys tickle and tease

My melody all day long.

* * *

If You Were My Book

If you were the pages of my book

And I were reading you,

I’d read as slow as I could go

So I never would get through.

from IF YOU WERE MY VALENTINE by Charles Ghigna

     I created the If You Were poem format in the mid-1970s during my early school visit days to help introduce students and teachers to metaphor.  

     The If You Were poem consists of 4 lines (quatrain) and 2 rhymes (lines 2 & 4).  It contains 2 comparisons (metaphors), one for the “I” of the poem and one for the “you.”

     Instructions:  Think of a person you like.  Compare that person to a thing (inanimate object).  Now compare yourself to a thing associated with the first object.

     For a list of other poem formats, please visit How to Write a Poem