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Getting Started By learning a few tricks, you will be amazed at your own poetic skill. Most importantly, you will have a lot of fun doing it. You just need to practice writing. Each time you do it, you get a little bit better. Each poem you write makes you a better poet. If you write a new poem every day for a month, you will be a better poet at the end of the month than you were when you started. The reason that you become a better poet by writing poems is because, no matter what skill you want to learn, you always “learn by doing”. As with any hobbies or sports you might enjoy, writing poetry requires a bit of special equipment.
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Tools The most important tool you should have as a poet is a small notebook, preferably one that fits in your pocket, that you can carry with you everywhere you go. So go get yourself a small notebook and start writing down ideas. It doesn’t have to be an entire poem. An idea can be as simple as a fun rhyme. You can write down single words that are funny or interesting, such as “linoleum” or “Bermuda”. They might be useful in a poem later. The only tools you really need to write poems are a pencil and paper, and your brain. But writing poetry can be even easier if you have a rhyming dictionary, a dictionary and a thesaurus.
Rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, computer and Internet access A rhyming dictionary is a book that lists the words that rhyme with end sounds of other words. For example, a rhyme for “cat”, is “at”, “bat”, “cat”, “fat”. A thesaurus is a “dictionary of synonyms and antonyms”. For example, the word “detective” has several synonyms, including “private eye”, “spy”, “Pinkerton”, “gumshoe” and “sleuth”. Put your hand on!!!
1 Writing poems. a) Read poems and start practicing your own poems. The sooner the better! I had a love, her name was Jill, A poem about your favorite color. I met her in December. Express your feelings about a single color I loved her more with analogies or similes or list nouns than anybody which are (or remind you of) that color. else I can remember. is to use the 5 sensesAnother easy form looks like, sounds like, smells like, tastes like, feels like. Color looks like Color sounds like Color smells like Color tastes like Color feels like
My cat is nice. My cat is fat. My cat is cute. I like my cat.
ACROSTIC: In Acrostic poems, the first letters of each line are aligned vertically to form a word. The word often is the subject of the poem. Elegantly and efficiently shaped Good to eat Great fun to find at Easter Smooth shelled
Orange Orange is feeling in your stomach afte r an orange soda quenched your thirst. Orange is the sun after a summer day. Orange is the sound of a field filled with dan delions blowing in the wind. Orange is the taste of a pizza that just came out of the oven. Orange is the taste of cold glass of oran ge juice. Orange is the feeling inside you whe n you accomplish something. Orange is the sound of a tomato plan t growing.
b) Write a poem for a special event. Present the poem to the class. Use the ideas given.
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