Poetry Can be Found Anywhere

This activity was a hit at Friday's Poetry Cafe.
Pick a letter of the alphabet.
Write it on a piece of paper. Choose the capitalized version first.
What does it look like?
For instance,

A
is a candy corn
is a snow-capped mountain
A is the fin of a shark, circling our tiny wooden boat
A is the snout of a sea lion
A is...

List what it looks like with repetitive lines and every third line or so, add details. Then flip it and start again. It's also a neat way to incorporate geometry (slides, rotations) with poetry.
I'll include some more student samples next week.