Poetry examples

What is a concrete poem? http://www.short-story-time.com/kids-concrete-poems.html You can make your own on a word document: OR, you can create one online: http://www.wild-about-woods.org.uk/elearning/concretepoetry/

When you write traditional verse, you are bound by rules. Rhyme, meter, stanza, length of line, and more are set up for you depending on which poetry form you have chosen. With free verse, you get to be the boss. You get to decide where to break your lines, which type of stanza to use,

Free verse is a type of poetry that doesn't use rhyme or regular meter. It has no set form, but it can have a pattern in the way words are used. Lines usually

It Stayed! by Amy LV Click the arrow to hear me read this poem to you. Students - Today's poem is a narrative poem, and it's based on a true story that happened to someone I've never met. People who write are always on the lookout for stories, and last summer when I was teaching a workshop, a teacher told me about a girl in her class who had a collection of lucky stones. This young girl knew her stones were lucky because each one had ridden home on the bumper of her car, and each one had…

Found poetry is an umbrella term that covers any poem created by using an external source text. The options for source texts are limitless and can include a variety of materials such as newspapers…

Happy New Year All. I hope you all have had a nice summer and are ready to be prompted to write again. Lets start with forms of Poetry.Do you know how to write a Limerick? How about giving it a try…