Love-Hate Ode to Rain

By Jasia, Year 8

Dear remarkable and rebellious rain …
You have decided to come once again.
Your wondrous water sparkles as it falls,
Making lovely sounds echoing through the halls.
You are like a symphony of drops,
I am sad when your performance stops.

But sometimes rain, you are a pest,
Just one sunny day is my request.
One sunny day to have some fun,
Please dear rain, don’t hide the sun.

Some days you decide to be polite
And let the sun shine in sight.
Those days give me such delight,
Days when you and sun don’t fight.
Both your water and the sun’s light,
Make a rainbow both colourful and bright!

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This love-hate ode was written as part of Story Factory’s Odes and Anti-Odes workshop, run via Story Factory Digital, where students had the opportunity join a live, online workshop and both rant and celebrate! Students learnt about the form, language features and history of the ode, as well as some useful strategies for idea generating, using mentor texts and beginning a draft.

Story Factory Digital is the newest arm of Story Factory’s programs, and partners with schools right across Australia. Offering free, live, video workshops, we work with metro, regional, rural and remote primary and high schools, and alternative educational communities, as well as public and independent schools, homeschools, schools for students with disability and additional needs, and juvenile justice schools. We are funded to offer free workshops to schools with an ICSEA below 1000, and/or significant numbers of students who are Indigenous or from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds.