What are some of your favorite poems?

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• Caged Bird by Maya Angelou.
• Invictus by William Ernest Henly.
• Television by Roald Dahl.
• A Poison Tree by William Blake.
• O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman.
• Why Do I Love You Sir by Emily Dickinson.
• We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks.
• We Wear The Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

What kind of poems do you write?

From sonnets and epics to haikus and villanelles, learn more about 15 of literature’s most enduring types of poems.

• Blank verse. Blank verse is poetry written with a precise meter—almost always iambic pentameter—that does not rhyme.
• Rhymed poetry.
• Free verse.
• Epics.
• Narrative poetry.
• Haiku.
• Pastoral poetry.
• Sonnet.

What is the best type of poem to write?

The best sort of poem is the one that makes you feel. It could be a haiku, a sestina, or a slam performance. It could be a poem you’ve read or heard; it could be a poem you’ve written.

What poem should I write about?

Poetry ideas – Write a poem about:

• Night-time.
• A particular color.
• Being underwater.
• A person whose life you’re curious about.
• Your mother’s perfume.
• Falling asleep or waking up.
• Growing older.
• The feeling of getting lost in a book.

How do you recite a poem?

Tips:

1. Project to the audience. Capture the attention of everyone, including the people in the back row.
2. Proceed at a fitting and natural pace.
3. With rhymed poems, be careful not to recite in a sing-song manner.
4. Make sure you know how to pronounce every word in your poem.
5. Line breaks are a defining feature of poetry.

How do you write a list poem of All Your Favorite Things?

In fact, if you have a lot of things you like, you can even make a simple list poem of all of your favorite things. Here’s how. Step 1: Make a list of a as many of your favorite things as you can think of, like this: Step 2: See if you can rhyme anything on your list with something else you like.

What can I do with my poems?

Publish a poem in a journal or magazine or newsletter than has nothing to do with poetry: local group, food, pets, caregiving, etc. Contribute a poem on a memorial site for a friend who has passed. Give the gift of a poem to someone who is sick. Partner with a musician and write song lyrics. Or if you can, write your own song.

What is the easiest thing to write about?

So instead of telling kids to “write what you know,” I like to say that “the easiest thing to write about is your favorite thing ,” because that is what you know the most about. If you love playing video games, you probably know a lot about them. If your favorite thing happens to be karate, or soccer, or pizza, you probably know a lot about that.

What is your favorite poem by Jack Gilbert?

[Jack Gilbert] wrote what may be my very favorite poem, “ A Brief for the Defense ,” late in his life; there’s maturity in it no youth could ever muster. It feels like something that should be in Ecclesiastes—it’s biblical in its wisdom and scope.