Silver by Walter de la Mare

A great poem to use with children could be used a conversation starter. The children could discuss the use of the colour silver - why silver?
It could be the poets favourite colour. Maybe the moon made him choose silver becasue its the first thing he talks about. 
You could then use this as a model for a class or group poem. What if we chose a different colour? Gold would be a easy choice with the golden sun to start. where he has used Adjectives and adverbs then you/the children should use the same. 
E.g. Gold
Hurriedly, hungrily, rise the run 
Causing the night to cease and run;
Stirring and stretching she claims it all
As life on earth hears her beckoning call;

The is most certainly a Key Stage two task and really challenges the writer to consider a range of vocabulary. This task is not as easy as it first seems. So far in my example I have not mentioned 'gold' the subject of my poem.
Silver

Slowly, silently, now the moon

Walks the night in her silver shoon;

This way, and that, she peers, and sees

Silver fruit upon silver trees;

One by one the casements catch

Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;

Couched in his kennel, like a log,

With paws of silver sleeps the dog;

From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep

Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep;

A harvest mouse goes scampering by,

With silver claws and a silver eye;

And moveless fish in the water gleam,

By silver reeds in a silver stream.

Walter de la Mare